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- Handy PointFinder app now available for iOS users
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... can save GPS coordinates for Points of Interest (POI). The user can use PointFinder's periodic Text-To-Speech and audio compass features ... open Google Maps to provide navigation to the POI that the user nominates. The app’s interface is high-contrast with large, easy to ...
5 Sep 2016 - 11:15am
- Audio description app trialled in the UK
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... 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 ... services. As a program plays, the microphone on the user’s mobile device picks up its soundtrack, and this is used to sync the ...
18 Feb 2015 - 11:25am
- Google Glass to have captions
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... is designed to work in conjunction with the microphone on a user’s Android smartphone. When someone speaks into this, captions created using text-to-speech software will appear on the user’s Glass display. As this set-up requires the user to hand the person ...
10 Oct 2014 - 10:16am
- Microsoft releases new app – a talking camera for the blind
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... visually impaired by using an iPhone's camera to tell the user about objects in the field of view. It identifies things in the immediate environment of the user including people, objects, and even emotions — to provide important ...
17 Jul 2017 - 1:52pm
- Research to make white canes smarter
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... environment within a room and communicates this to the user’s smartphone. Attached to the tip of a standard white ... of an obstacle surrounding the white cane and navigate the user around it. While indoor mapping is advancing rapidly, the Curtin ...
23 Jul 2013 - 3:21pm
- Windows 8 released with enhanced accessibility
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... some new features have been added to make it easier for a user to have accessibility features start as soon as the computer is switched ... for touchscreen devices Sign-in settings: allows the user to select which built-in accessibility features launch as the computer ...
26 Oct 2012 - 4:13pm
- Fleksy app improves texting for blind or vision impaired users
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... The app automatically detects words as a user is typing and works with the inbuilt iOS screen reader VoiceOver. While ... impaired users through automatic detection of words as the user types combined with VoiceOver which will announce suggested words. The ...
27 Jun 2012 - 5:09pm
- W3C updates accessibility guidelines
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... to the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0, User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) and draft documents released by the ... tools accessible to people with disabilities. The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAAG) has also published an ...
28 Jul 2011 - 10:26am
- iPhone app uses real-life people to answer questions for blind and vision impaired
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... people record the answer, which is then sent back to the user. An academic paper on VizWiz that outlines the user testing process reports an average response time of 27 seconds using the ...
17 May 2011 - 3:03pm
- Project Tango: Google's new indoor mapping device
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... communicate this information to a blind or vision impaired user. This would provide a level of detail previously unseen in indoor mapping ... an art gallery while a Project Tango would be able to tell a user where a chair is placed and provide directions around it. As with most ...
12 Mar 2014 - 5:10pm