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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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Chinese tech giant Baidu announces Blind Search device
Q&A: Social media and accessibility
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Media Access Australia: You’re chairing a session on the adoption of social media by seniors and persons with disabilities. What’s your view on the role social media can and is playing for these groups?
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Government sector must improve digital experience
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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Q&A with Robert Osztolykan, creator of the petition to make Steam accessible
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Steam is highly popular, featuring more than five million users. Part of this popularity is that it features more than 3,500 free and paid-for games that users of Windows, Mac and Linux computers can browse and download to play.
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