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  • Breaking barriers: how Apple's new voice accessibility improvements address critical needs

    Guest Blogger | 22 May 2024
    Guest blog editor, Colin Hughes, a former BBC producer, outlines Apple's significant, positive voice accessibility developments.
  • Accessible digital technology for wellbeing

    Guest Blogger | 15 Apr 2024
    In this guest blog, PMAC outlines the digital developments that may help with your mental health, including reducing isolation and improving health management.
  • Apple’s next frontier: AI and the future of accessibility

    Guest Blogger | 28 Mar 2024
    Guest blog editor, Colin Hughes, a former BBC producer, outlines how artificial intelligence could revolutionise tech for disabled people.
  • New microphone invented for speech recognition

    Guest Blogger | 14 Feb 2024
    Accurate speech recognition is all about the microphone writes our guest blog editor, Colin Hughes, a former BBC producer.
  • AirPods can now authenticate Siri requests on iPhone in iOS 17

    Guest Blogger | 10 Aug 2023
    Colin Hughes shares how iOS 17 has solved one of the biggest accessibility hurdles for iPhone users, as well as the other enhancements to come with Apple's latest software upgrade.
  • Dictating with speech challenges: A tester's experience with Google’s Project Relate speech app

    Guest Blogger | 15 Feb 2023
    Colin Hughes, a former BBC producer, discusses the Android beta research app that aims to help people with non-standard speech communicate more easily with others and with the Google Assistant.
  • Inclusive Cybersecurity: How to ensure digital safety is for everyone

    Guest Blogger | 02 Feb 2023
    People with disabilities, the elderly, and other vulnerable populations often face unique challenges with regard to both digital accessibility and staying safe in the digital world.
  • Time to sow new seeds for digital accessibility

    Guest Blogger | 12 Jan 2023
    Helen Wilson shares her experience of teaching digital accessibility in the workplace and details about the Learn to Enable Digital for Everyone project.
  • Three Apple updates and how they help disabled users with voice access

    Guest Blogger | 24 Nov 2022
    Colin Hughes puts Apple’s autumn hardware and software updates under the microscope and looks ahead to what more the company needs to do around voice accessibility in 2023.
  • Accessibility and Apple’s autumn announcements 2021

    Guest Blogger | 12 Nov 2021
    Apple user and disability campaigner Colin Hughes shares his experiences of using new Apple technology, and the accessibility updates during 2021.
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