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Harrods - Website of the Month, March 2012

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...

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Posted at: 2/03/2012 7:45 AM by Steve Griffiths

Apple Store - App of the Month March 2012

Our App of the Month for March is Apple Store. Apple Store is a great way to research, personalise and buy products from Apple...

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Posted at: 1/03/2012 10:00 PM by Moderator

iPad For Partially Sighted Musicians, By Sarah Higgins

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...

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Posted at: 27/02/2012 12:15 PM by Steve Griffiths

Kindle for PC and Supernova and Window-Eyes

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...

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Posted at: 20/02/2012 1:30 PM by Moderator

How I use my iPhone by Sarah Higgins

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...

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Posted at: 13/02/2012 3:30 PM by Steve Griffiths

Are you a mobile app developer or blind or partially sighted smartphone user?

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...

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Posted at: 8/02/2012 12:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley

London Bus Live Countdown - App of the Month, February 2012

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...

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Posted at: 1/02/2012 1:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley

Sainsbury's Groceries - Website of the Month, February 2012

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...

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Posted at: 1/02/2012 1:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley

JAWS V13 find and the context specific history

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...

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Tag: Access technology

Posted at: 23/01/2012 3:18 PM by Moderator

Reading an image PDF with JAWS V13 OCR

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...

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Posted at: 23/01/2012 3:15 PM by Moderator