New Accessibility App Makes Enjoying a Trip to the Movies Inclusive for All
For most young people, adolescence is a time filled with fashion and romantic concerns. For Alex Koren, his teen years were the beginning of a quest for equal access for the hearing impaired.
Inclusive Design: Making The Web Accessible For All
Inclusive design, as shared by the Inclusive Design Group at the University of Cambridge, is defined as “design of mainstream products and/or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible … without the need for special adaptation or (specialized) design.”
Stop Talking About Accessibility. Start Talking About Inclusive Design.
By talking about accessibility we marginalise it to being about disability. In truth, making your digital services accessible benefits everybody.
The Computer Games Journal – Special Issue on Accessibility in Gaming Call for Papers
The Computer Games Journal is a Springer academic journal focused on – as you might expect – computer games. They are doing a special issue in early 2018 on the topic of accessibility in games and that is awesome.
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Universal Design
When we design an application, we want it to be so intuitive that anyone could use it. But who do we mean when we say “anyone?”
A new app asks crowds to help map bus stops for the sightless
Blindways is a new app developed by the Perkins School of Blind to crowdsource precise locations to help blind people find bus stops.
INCLUSIVE DESIGN IN USER INTERFACE
What is inclusive design? To design something to be inclusive means to make it approachable for a diverse set of users. Often, this focuses on optimization for accessibilitywithout compromising the experience of users not using assistive technology. (Assistive tech might include things like screen reader apps that “read” a web page for visually impaired users, speech input […]
Can Google Glass help children with autism read faces?
Like many autistic children, Julian Brown has trouble reading emotions in people’s faces, one of the biggest challenges for people with the neurological disabilities. Now the 10-year-old boy from San Jose, United States, is getting help from “autism glass”, an experimental device that records and analyses faces in real time and alerts him to the […]
Windows 10 Anniversary Update makes great strides for accessibility
Accessibility options are not a new feature for Windows, but the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update includes even more than before. This week it was confirmed that the update will launch on 2 August, just days after the free upgrade period ends (although it’s worth noting that people with accessibility needs will still qualify for […]
Virtual Reality Aimed At The Elderly Finds New Fans
Virginia Anderlini is 103 years old, and she is about to take her sixth trip into virtual reality. In real life, she is sitting on the sofa in the bay window of her San Francisco assisted-living facility. Next to her, Dr. Sonya Kim gently tugs the straps that anchor the headset over Anderlini’s eyes.