On Thursday, 20th May, as we recognise Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Infosys along with the Centre for Accessibility is hosting a virtual conversation with leaders from industry, not for profits, media and a citizen’s perspective to accessibility.
Read full story: Global Accessibility Awareness Day event with CFA Australia and Infosys
Zoom, one of the world’s most popular remote meeting software applications, has significantly improved it’s automated captioning feature and is now making it available to free users.
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Read full story: Zoom rolling out automated caption support for free user accounts
Microsoft has recently announced that it will provide developers with the opportunity to have their code checked for accessibility by programmers and gamers with disability as part of its support…
Read full story: Microsoft announces game accessibility developer testing program
On 18 February 2021, Facebook blocked people in Australia from being able to access news on its platform in protest to the Federal government’s proposed media laws. While the…
Read full story: Facebook causes digital access issues through Australian news ban
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has published the first working draft for its significantly updated and renamed W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 standard.
In…
Read full story: W3C WAI WCAG 3.0 first public draft released for comment
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world’s largest consumer technology exhibition and showcases the products likely to appear in our shops in the coming months. While less products…
Read full story: CES 2021 highlights: consumer technologies with great accessibility potential
The Western Australian Electoral Commission (WAEC) has recently announced two accessible voting options most likely to benefit people who are blind and vision impaired or have a print disability.
The…
Read full story: New accessibility options for Western Australia state election
The California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Assistive Technology (AT) Conference, generally regarded as the world’s largest conference relating to digital access, has moved online for the first time in…
Read full story: CSUN 2021 AT online conference registrations now open
By CFA Australia CEO Dr Scott Hollier. Scott is a W3C WAI Invited Expert and Co-convenor for the Research Questions Task Force
What a year it’s been. With…
Read full story: W3C WAI 2020 Year in Review
TikTok, the popular social media short video platform, has expanded its ability to warn developers against posting content that could induce epileptic seizures, and support users in automatically skipping over…
Read full story: TikTok helps developers and users avoid content that causes epileptic seizures