Android update adds scheduled texts and improves accessibility
As well as a dark mode for Maps, password checker and Auto tweaks.
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Microsoft will test Xbox and PC games to help make them more accessible
The company has also updated its Xbox Accessibility Guidelines.
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These $120 Nikes are performance shoes that you can put on without using your hands at all.
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Facebook improves AI photo descriptions for the visually impaired
New technology helps Facebook offer more detailed labels.
Google and Microsoft chat accessibility in tech
How should companies approach inclusive product design?
This gesture-sensing band could make the Apple Watch more accessible
It also allows you to use the wearable without tapping its touchscreen.
Accessibility in tech improved in 2020, but more must be done
How did the industry’s biggest companies perform?
CD Projekt Red plans to address Cyberpunk 2077's epilepsy triggers
The team will implement a 'permanent solution' as soon as possible.
Google's Look to Speak lets users pick phrases with their eyes
The accessibility app could help users with motor and speech impairments to communicate.
Google brings tab search to Chromebooks with Chrome OS 87
Chromebooks can now display the battery level of a connected Bluetooth device.
TikTok will add a flashing imagery filter to address epilepsy concerns
Users have the option of blocking all clips with flashing imagery in settings.
Google is testing an AI system to help vision-impaired people run races
The Project Guideline app can keep them on track with audio cues.
Facebook issues new accessibility guidelines for VR developers
The company "strongly" suggests developers follow the recommendations.
Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue was lip-synced by AI
Procedural generation provides accurate animations for 10 languages.
The latest Chrome OS update improves accessibility on Chromebooks
There are more cursor colors and Google improved the text-to-speech features.
New Android feature alerts you to smoke alarms and other 'critical' sounds
Your phone can warn you if it hears your dog barking.
Google expands Assistant accessibility tools with new speech integration
The AI now works with Tobii Dynavox's Snap Core First software.
Twitter will add voice tweet transcriptions following criticism over accessibility
It's expanding voice tweets on iOS, but they won't come to Android until 2021.
Google wants you to train its AI by lip syncing 'Dance Monkey' by Tones and I
It will use your performance to teach its AI how we speak.