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“Okay Google, turn on Voice Access”
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The new app allows users to change settings, writing texts, scrolling to the end of a page, using the camera, contacts and more. This will allow a greater inclusion to users unable to operate the touchscreen due to a disability.
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Uber's new accessibility features create job opportunities for Deaf and hearing impaired drivers
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What is Uber?
Uber is an online transportation network that allows consumers with smartphones to submit a trip request which is then routed to Uber drivers who use their own cars.
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Twitter supports alternative text for images sent via app
Blind Citizens Australia wraps up successful convention in Perth
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Much of the focus related to the 40th anniversary of BCA with presentations and discussions relating to how products and services for people who are blind or vision impaired have progressed over that time, current issues both locally and internationally, and the significance of BCA in the future.
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Android Wear 5.1.1 includes long-awaited accessibility features
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The new features are largely vision-related, with support for magnification, colour inversion and large text. The magnification feature can be accessed via specific gestures.
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Consumers encouraged to nominate accessible apps
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The challenge, now in its second year, seeks to find Australia’s most accessible apps and encourage software developers to include digital accessibility when they create apps.
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Samsung boosts smartphone accessibility with Galaxy Talkback for the S6 and S6 Edge
Audio description app trialled in the UK
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The app was developed by the Italian company Universal Multimedia Access, which also created the MovieReading app. This allows a caption file for a movie to be downloaded to a user’s smartphone or tablet, so that the captions can be watched as the movie screens in a cinema.
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Mobile device usage surges in Australia
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