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| 29 May 2017 |
New eGlasses can improve vision for many who are legally blind Canadian company eSight creates futuristic glasses that use images from a forward-facing camera to overcome vision loss, even for many people who are... |
| 25 May 2017 |
Five tips for teachers of students with hearing impairment So you’ve started a new term this year and you’ve discovered that one (or perhaps more) of your students has a hearing impairment or doesn't have... |
| 25 May 2017 |
Free captioning and description editing tool launched The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) in the USA has just launched CADET (Caption and Description Editing Tool) which was previously only... |
| 22 May 2017 |
4 leading Startups in the Deaf and hearing-impaired space 1 in 6 Australians are affected by hearing loss including around 30,000 Deaf Auslan users with total hearing loss, according to the Australian... |
| 16 May 2017 |
US restaurant chain has trouble on the menu The Olive Garden restaurant group in the US is accused of having a website that is inaccessible to the vision impaired, with a lawsuit filed in... |
| 09 May 2017 |
Ava app makes group conversations accessible For those with hearing disability, simple dinner table group conversations can be pretty painful to stay on top of. However, the Ava app aims to... |
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| 24 April 2017 |
Aipoly Vision is a truly visionary app ‘Aipoly Vision’ is a very useful object-and-colour recogniser app that helps the blind, vision-impaired, and colour blind to understand their... |
| 20 April 2017 |
New vision-impaired user interface launched by Virgin Australia Virgin Australia has become the first airline in the Asia Pacific region, and the second airline in the world, to introduce an in-flight... |
| 11 April 2017 |
I am not a Robot! - the access implications of Google’s new Invisible reCAPTCHA Google has taken one more step towards a fully-automated bot-detection system with the launch of ‘Invisible reCAPTCHA’ - which hopefully spells an... |
| 07 April 2017 |
Government forms Working Group on AD for TV The Turnbull Government has set up a new taskforce with the aim of improving TV accessibility. They have announced the formation of an Audio... |
| 03 April 2017 |
New game allows you to play face-to-face even if you’re blind The Nintendo Switch console has a terrific new game that's accessible for the blind. Called 1-2 Switch, it allows two players to enjoy game-play... |
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| 27 March 2017 |
Opera House more accessible – on and off the stage The Sydney Opera House has launched its biggest ever Access Program for 2017. The line-up of events features more than 70 accessible shows, workshops... |
| 22 March 2017 |
New muppet with autism joins Sesame Street Over the decades, iconic children’s TV show, Sesame Street, has always been good at raising awareness around a wide variety of sections of the... |
| 13 March 2017 |
Don’t miss The Future of Accessible Work The 14th International Web for All Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2017), run in conjunction with the 26th International... |
| 07 March 2017 |
New report on the trial of A.D. on ABC iview Media Access Australia was one of seven leading advocacy organisations that have just tabled a report, including consumer feedback, perspectives and... |
| 07 March 2017 |
New Australian app for A.T. users to better equip themselves A new consumer app is helping Australians with disabilities to identify the range of Assistive Technology (AT) equipment and technology options... |
| 02 March 2017 |
Design-a-thon event showcased innovative thinking The recent Enabled Design-a-thon event was held in Sydney on 25-26 February 2017 with two Media Access Australia accessibility specialists taking... |
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| 23 February 2017 |
Don't miss Meeting Place 2017 on 2 March in Perth Hosted in partnership with the Perth International Arts Festival and DADAA WA, Arts Access Australia’s Meeting Place 2017 will be held next week in... |
| 16 February 2017 |
Windows 10 free upgrade offer still on for AT users Microsoft continues to support a free upgrade to Windows 10 for people who are using Assistive Technologies (AT) in Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8... |
| 16 February 2017 |
Latest on iOS 10, 7 & Plus 7 phones and new Apple Support app A lot of new things are happening in the Apple universe. There's an iOS 10 Home ‘button‘ and Voice Control update, along with a wonderful new Apple... |