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An email-based service which translates electronic documents into Braille or synthetic speech has won the British Computer Society’s 2007 Social Contribution Award.
‘RoboBraille’ is a free service and currently supports seven languages. It was developed by a consortium led by the Danish National Centre for Visual Impairment for Children and Youth:
www.robobraille.org .
The ‘help scheme’ on offer to people with disabilities to assist with the
UK-wide switchover to digital TV works well, though many users will
find digital services harder to use, research from the RNIB has found.
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The British Computer Association of the Blind (BCAB) have launched an initiative called EyeT4All. The revolutionary initiative brings easy to use, affordable access technology to visually impaired people around the UK.
A vision impaired IT professional has been has been awarded 12,000 Euros compensation by an industrial tribunal in Ireland after it was accepted that a recruitment process used by multinational company Siemens discriminated against job applicants with disabilities.
Government websites may be stripped of their ‘gov.uk’ domain names if they fail to meet tough new standards of accessibility to web users with disabilities, according to confidential draft proposals seen by E- Access Bulletin’s sister publication E-Government Bulletin.
California may require websites to provide access to visually impaired users under a ruling made in the long running case of the American National Federation of the Blind vs Target.
From PC World see: www.pcworld.com/article/id,137433-c,iphone/article.html
A group representing people with a hearing loss filed complaints with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last month, accusing Apple Inc. of not making its iPhone compatible with hearing aids.
Office 2007. Revolution in usability? Innovation in interface design? Hell no, not if you’re a screen reader user at least.
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Severely vision impaired people in England, Scotland and Wales are being asked to keep audio diaries of the daily barriers they encounter due to mobility impairment, as part of an RNIB campaign for blind people to be able to claim the same level of state disability benefit as wheelchair users.
Wireless-enabled bank cards tested in London this month will pave the way for a new system of cashless payments, enabling small purchases to be made in pharmacies, newsagents, and snack bars without providing a PIN number or a signature.
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