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These are the items that relate to bbc found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.

  • Revolutionising accessibility: Voice enhancements in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia

    Annie Mannion | 31 Jul 2024
    Guest blog editor, Colin Hughes, a former BBC producer, highlights Apple’s commitment to empowering users reliant on hands-free dictation, and those with atypical speech.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Accessibility Insights: Learning from global accessibility leaders

    Annie Mannion | 07 Nov 2022
    Our Accessibility Insights series of monthly webinars has included guests from Microsoft, ATOS, Google, Barclays, and Sainsbury's.
  • AbilityNet expert on BBC Radio 4's In Touch technology special

    Robin Christopherson | 19 May 2021
    Robin Christopherson MBE shares his expertise and experience on the consumer affairs radio programme for people with sight loss.
  • Siri can now answer your calls ... but can't hang up

    Guest Blogger | 17 May 2021
    Apple’s recent iPhone update iOS 14.5 brings good news for disabled users, though there's room for improvement, writes our guest blog editor, Colin Hughes, a former BBC producer.
  • How the BBC uses disability passports to support workplace inclusion

    Annie Mannion | 15 Apr 2021
    Learn from the BBC about how its progressive remote working best practices help employees during the pandemic, and how accessibility education should be introduced earlier to the emerging workforce.
  • BBC tips to help bring web accessibility to the centre stage of your business

    Sophie Stevens | 29 Mar 2021
    Join our free webinar on 6 April to learn about digital accessibility best practices with Accessibility Specialist at the BBC, Emma Pratt-Richens.
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