Shopping sites can be tricky, because they can contain information on a lot of products and often rely on graphics to show what things look like...
Read more about Harrods - Website of the Month, March 2012.
Tag: Website of the month
Posted at: 2/03/2012 7:45 AM by Steve Griffiths
Our App of the Month for March is Apple Store. Apple Store is a great way to research, personalise and buy products from Apple...
Read more about Apple Store - App of the Month March 2012.
Tag: App of the month
Posted at: 1/03/2012 10:00 PM by Moderator
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
Great news - all the main screen readers now work with the Kindle for PC with accessibility plug-in. The Kindle for PC with accessibility application came out last May...
Read more about Kindle for PC and Supernova and Window-Eyes.
Tag: Technology news
Posted at: 20/02/2012 1:30 PM by Moderator
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
Then don't miss out on RNIB's Accessibility Hackathon event which is happening this weekend, 11th February 2012 at the Skills Matter venue in Clerkenwell, London...
Read more about Are you a mobile app developer or blind or partially sighted smartphone user?.
Tag: Technology events
Posted at: 8/02/2012 12:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley
February 2012 is Service Matters Month. The campaign will showcase some of the providers who are offering blind and partially sighted people great customer service in the areas of travel, shopping and control of money...
Read more about London Bus Live Countdown - App of the Month, February 2012.
Tag: App of the month
Posted at: 1/02/2012 1:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley
February 2012 is Service Matters Month. The campaign will showcase some of the providers who are offering blind and partially sighted people great customer service in the areas of travel, shopping and control of money...
Read more about Sainsbury's Groceries - Website of the Month, February 2012.
Tag: Website of the month
Posted at: 1/02/2012 1:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley
The JAWS Find facility (Insert Control F, Control F in IE) is commonly used in big documents or in web pages to locate a specific word or strings of text...
Read more about JAWS V13 find and the context specific history.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/01/2012 3:18 PM by Moderator
We haven't been particularly blown away by the DVD menu reading abilities of the instant OCR capability of JAWS V13. However, on the subject of reading inaccessible, image-only PDF files this may be more of a chance for the feature to shine...
Read more about Reading an image PDF with JAWS V13 OCR.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/01/2012 3:15 PM by Moderator