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Emirates' inflight entertainment wins award

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Emirates has won the World’s Best Airline Inflight Entertainment award for the sixth year running at the 2010 Skytrax World Airline Awards.  

In 2009-2010 Emirates selected movies from over 15 countries that were available in over 20 languages, as well as many with the option to choose closed captions for the Deaf and hearing impaired.

The airline's groundbreaking audio and video-on-demand system, ice (information, communications and entertainment), is available on over 80 per cent of the Emirates fleet and offers a staggering choice of up to 1,200 channels of entertainment including 230 movies from around the world.

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Apple's accessible iPad launched in Australia

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Crowds of people outside the Sydney Apple store brought the surrounding areas to a standstill this morning as the eagerly awaited and highly accessible Apple iPad went on sale today.

Like the iPhone, the iPad contains a number of accessibility features for people with disabilities who want to do things like use the web, send e-mail, listen to music and read e-books.

Accessibility features include the VoiceOver screen reader, zoom, adjustable colour contrast, captioned video and the ability to output the audio to one ear.

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New research makes Rock Band accessible

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New research from the University of California Santa Cruz in the US allows people who are blind or vision impaired to join their friends in playing Rock Band, a popular console game where people play different instruments together.

To make the drumming component of Rock Band work for gamers who are blind or vision impaired, Sri Kurniawan, an assistant professor in computer engineering, used vibrations and sounds to convey the information needed to play the game. Gamers have small devices strapped to their upper and lower arms to deliver vibrations that represent the drumhead cues, and strapped to their ankle to represent the kick drum cues.  Auditory information is used to provide feedback on correct and timely hits (with various drumming sounds) or errors (with a click sound).

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Game Accessibility Day 2010

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Game accessibility enthusiasts will converge today in Boston, Massachusetts to attend the annual Game Accessibility Day, held as part of the Games for Health Conference 2010.

As the popularity of games continues to soar, interest in game accessibility also grows. For the third year in a row, Game Accessibility Day will give people a chance to share research and development and practical experience in game accessibility, and network with others whose passion lies in this area. 

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