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26 September 2008
Scripting enabled
Last week's scripting enabled event was a very enlightening experience. A day of inspiring presentations was followed by a hack-day.
Audio virtual reality for the visually impaired
A Bluetooth based system operated by voice commands could provide pedestrians with information about points of interest on their journey.
Do we really have web standards?
Molly Holzschlag gives the low down on web standards.
Access programme in Africa
Computer Aid International in Kenya is providing access technologies to help people into work. They are appealing for open source programmers to help reduce the cost of access technologies and make them more widely available.
Firefox 3.02 released with accessibility improvements
The new release of Firefox now works with JAWS 7.10 and the public beta of JAWS 10 and has other enhancements to improve compatibility with assistive technologies.
Social software and business
New research by IBM will look at how to integrate social software into business.
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