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Ed Rogers has spent six years working with braille readers to develop the Canute, which he says will be the world's first refreshable multi-line e-reader for people with sight loss. He hopes to challenges the decline in braille literacy and make reading books affordable for blind people.
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Did you know that as vision declines with age, the colour blue is the most difficult to make out? Avoid use of blue on websites for older people, particularly on important interface elements - this is one of the tips given in the Alzheimer's Society's latest guidance on making websites user-...
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It seems like the summer holidays have just started, but it won't be too long before new students are going off to university for the first time. In 2016, Disability Rights UK came up with some handy guidance for disabled students about what Adjustments could be made by universities to help those...
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“Women use Facebook, men use Twitter, men email us late at night and want straightforward information when they can't sleep and are worried, women have more contact at other times” says Naomi Marek founder of Sky Badger, an online charity supporting parents of disabled children.
“When your child...
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Microsoft is combining quick, reliable voice recognition with instant language translation and embedding it into more and more of its products - bridging the communication gap across countries and eroding the barriers of disability.
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*Jim lost most of his sight as a teenager because of a genetic eye condition. To support him, teachers would make his notes in class and his text books would be audio recorded for him. These days, he can read faster than sighted peers thanks to a screenreader, but he still finds himself disabled...
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Two 14 year old from Northern Ireland have triumphed in the youth category of the AbilityNet Tech4Good awards - the BT Young Pioneer. Their handheld learning support device - the Dyslexic Aid - features games to assist people with dyslexia to learn recognise words and letters more readily.
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Robin Christopherson starts to join the dots on the ways that a smarter home will help disabled people...
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The presenter of top TV programmes Bang Goes the Theory and Tomorrow's World, Maggie Philbin, has praised those that make a point of using diverse tech teams to create truly inclusive products and services.
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