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Only 2% of sites meet accessibility standards.

Accessibility standards are in place to ensure that developers have included accessibility from the onset of their projects. Otherwise millions of people with disabilities are not able to access information or services online. Post-pandemic, more and...

Wireless RERC Publishes Mobile Phone Accessibility Review

Wireless RERC has published a Mobile Phone Accessibility Review as input to the US Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) biennial evaluation of the impact of the commission's regulations that implement the Twenty-First Century Communications...

MIT agrees to caption online videos

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA will provide captions for more of its publicly available online videos, to settle a lawsuit by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) that accused the school of discriminat...

Page Not Found' on US White House website #disabilities

Rights of persons with disabilities are high on the radar in the USA, as questions were raised about the new US Department of Education secretary, Betsy DeVos's, whose priorities were examined (Is Betsy DeVos against enforcing disability rights laws ...

The disability employment gap -what's digital got to do with it?

Research by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive Technology highlights how technology can remove barriers to employment for disabled people, writes Geena Vabulas, Policy Manager for Assistive and Accessible Technology at Policy Connect.Whe...

Government Introduces Orbit reader Technology to Visually Impaired Students

Digital (in)accessibility down under: Why Australia lags behind New Zealand

New research from Infosys has revealed that Australia is behind New Zealand when it comes to ensuring all digital properties are accessible, such as enabling accessible mobile banking, digital citizen services or online learning experiences . A surve...

Announcement of a new Assistive and Accessible Technology Policy Lab

Designing policy to make technology work for each and every one of us, throughout our lives -a new venture from Policy Connect, Bournemouth University and the Ace Centre. Today, a new Assistive and Accessible Technology (ATech) Policy Lab will be ann...

Google launches two Android apps for the deaf

Google has launched two new apps that will cater to the deaf and the hearing impaired. In a recent blog post, the company mentioned the appsLive Transcribeand Sound Amplifier,designed mainly for the Android OS. The apps which come pre-insta...

Tech enabled series highlights advancements tech brings for persons with #disabilities

CNets' Tech Enabled series 'Tech  enabled: Engineering independence skill and success - for all',  has published two new articles: Disability activists, amplified: Social media gets the job done, which emphasises that having a disabili...

The Future of Privacy Forum in consultation with the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) Technology Forum released a white paper dealing with IoT and people with disabilities

The US advocacy groupThe Future of Privacy Forum in consultation with the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) Technology Forum published a white paper exploring the benefits, challenges, and privacy tensions concerning IoT and peo...

Digital Accessibility: The Billion-Customer Opportunity for Brands

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck-in many cases making digital the only channel through which customers could engage with brands-many companies realized for the first time the importance of digital accessibility. And that's a good thing, because crea...