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Facebook has said it's disabling facial recognition on its platform. It'll see a degrade in the quality of automatic alt text but the firm said it wants to wait for regulators to lay out rules.
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Microsoft has emphasized that Windows 11 is built with accessibility in mind through new and redesigned components, services, and APIs. It calls this initiative the "modern accessibility platform".
Facebook has improved its automatic alternative text feature to help describe photos to the visually impaired. It now detects photo contents ten times better and gives better descriptions.
Samsung has been award accreditation by the Royal National Institute of Blind People for including features on its 2020 Smart TVs that make them more accessible for those with vision impairments.
Be My Eyes is an app that caters to people who are blind or have low vision. Microsoft will now be offering technical assistance to customers of Be My Eyes via its Disability Answer Desk.
Facebook has announced some new face recognition tools on its social media platform which will stop malicious parties using pictures to impersonate another person. The tools will also help the blind.
A new headset designed by Microsoft works with Windows Phone to help blind people navigate cities via GPS and beacons, which could transform a way of life for millions around the world.
An Indian company has developed 'smartshoes' that vibrate to help you to navigate around town. Originally developed to help the blind, they also include fitness sensors, and go on sale in September.
Microsoft has been developing a new wearable device: a 'smart headband' that can help blind people to 'see' the world around them - although not quite in the way you may be imagining.
We like to highlight quality posts that hit our forum and in today's edition of "From the Forums", one of our readers noticed several errors that made there way to the RTM build of Windows 8.
Imagine a world where you can't see the text on this screen, then think about trying to venture out of your house. With the power of Kinect, the blind will soon have a new companion to travel about.
Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind. Because hybrids make virtually no noise at slower speeds when they run solely...
The emergence of multimedia content has risen dramatically in the last two years yet people with low or no vision have not been able to enjoy the benefits of these advances. Among other complications, current...
Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC), a system that Microsoft says makes the new operating system safer from attack, can be spoofed and shouldn't be completely trusted, said a Symantec researcher. Ollie Whitehouse, an architect...
MarÃa Jesús San Segundo, Spanish Secretary of Education and Science, and Carlos Rubén Fernández, President of ONCE foundation, awarded the prize to the scientists at the historical Complutense University auditorium in Madrid. Georg Boomgaarden, German...
Even though this is just a study and nothing is conclusive, everyone should remember to rest their eye perodically (every 20 min) when using a computer. This is especially applicable to people playing HL2 non-stop...
Apple has introduced a new accessibility solution for visually impaired users that it will integrate with the next major release of Mac OS X. The company took the wraps off of the new technology today:...
An increasingly popular technique for preventing e-mail abuse is frustrating some visually impaired Net users, setting the stage for a conflict between spam busters and advocates for the disabled. Many companies have...
I don't know about you but for me, it's always great to hear news about new technology that help to aid disbled people to have a better life. BT wants someone with pots of cash...
