Handy PointFinder app now available for iOS users
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USAA’s new banking app allows voice-guided cheque depositing
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This system offers verbal cues to guide a vision impaired customer to be able to properly position a cheque to deposit it. They use commands like ‘push out’, ‘pull in’, ‘move right’, ‘lift device’, ‘hold steady’, ‘image captured’, and more.
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Google invests in start-up that identifies images through your phone’s camera
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Google already has an object recognition app (Google Goggles), but Moodstocks operates differently. It runs on your smartphone rather than via a server, which makes it more affordable, more mainstream and more accessible to its targeted audience.
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Apple wins award for accessibility advances
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The Bray Award is given to a person or business that has improved or expanded the level of accessibility of communication technology or devices for people who are blind or have a vision impairment, therefore allowing greater inclusion for all.
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New ‘game-changing’ phone app enhances phone accessibility
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This app was launched this week to coincide with Deafblind Awareness Week (the last day is today). The app creators have hailed it as a ‘game-changer’ for those who are Deaf and blind or have hearing loss or vision impairment.
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Curtin University receives grant to investigate the impact of mobile apps on people with a disability
Apple announces minor software accessibility improvements at WWDC 2016 conference
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The conference, which focuses on supporting developers to create new products in the Apple software ecosystem, highlighted a number of improvements across its desktop, mobile, watch and TV set-top-box operating systems, some of which are likely to benefit people with disabilities.
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Apple Store adds new access section in time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Uber's new accessibility features create job opportunities for Deaf and hearing impaired drivers
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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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New updates by Twitter client app Twitterrific enhance accessibility for vision impaired users
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Accessibility improvements
According to iTunes, the accessibility improvements listed below have been made to the application.
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