With over 30 million UK registered users, Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site on the World Wide Web. I and many of my friends who are blind or partially sighted access Facebook on a day to day basis...
Read more about Top Tips for Facebook, by Sarah Higgins.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 12/03/2012 3:30 PM by Moderator
If you use the internet then this advert might have caught your eye. "Skip the waiting. Forget the set-up. Leave the manuals behind. Go straight online to creating, sharing and enjoying because everything is faster and easier on a Chromebook...
Read more about A Google Chromebook Review - By Sarah Higgins.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 5/03/2012 3:00 PM by Steve Griffiths
The iPad is changing the way we learn and the way we access all kinds of information whether it be for an educational or recreational purpose...
Read more about iPad For Partially Sighted Musicians, By Sarah Higgins.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 27/02/2012 12:15 PM by Steve Griffiths
Apple products are renowned for having fundamentally accessible interfaces as well as a wide range of applications designed for people with sight loss that can be downloaded onto the device via the App Store...
Read more about How I use my iPhone by Sarah Higgins.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 13/02/2012 3:30 PM by Steve Griffiths
In October, Apple released an update for the iOS software that runs on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Digital Accessibility had a quick look at this and the new iPhone 4S to see how accessibility has improved...
Read more about iOS 5 and iPhone 4S.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 21/12/2011 2:00 PM by Steve Griffiths
Santa brought me an early Christmas present yesterday - a Chromebook! Chromebooks have been around since the summer, but this was the first time I'd actually seen one, so of course I had to stop what I was doing to play with it...
Read more about Setting up a Chromebook with speech.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 9/12/2011 12:15 PM by Steve Griffiths
Geoff Adams-Spink is a partially sighted Mac user who has written a review of Mac OS X Lion, which was released at the end of July. He gives it a B+. There are a number of comments to the article which give some useful additional information...
Read more about Mac OS X Lion review.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 26/09/2011 7:00 PM by Steve Griffiths
Hands up how many of you have more than one computer that you regularly use either at work or at home? By computer, we mean laptops, desktops, netbooks, tablets and smartphones...
Read more about Web Tech Bulletin 2 - Dropbox.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 15/09/2011 7:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley
The first in our series of Web Tech Bulletins gives you an introduction to Twitter, and information about some of the most accessible ways to use it...
Read more about Web Tech Bulletin 1 - Twitter.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 15/01/2011 9:00 AM by Scott Chesworth
We've written some general information about ebooks, including details of the formats, benefits and hardware available. ...
Read more about eBooks.
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Posted at: 1/07/2010 8:00 AM by Moderator