Digital Accessibility has been contacted by someone who bought an iPad specifically to enable her to read books in large print. She used the Verdana sans-serif font in iBooks set to a font size she estimated at being 16 or 18 point...
Read more about iBooks font issues.
Tag: Technology news
Posted at: 13/01/2012 1:05 PM by Moderator
Kindle Fire This seven inch tablet computer is rumoured to go on sale in the UK in January. With a colour screen and a cheaper price point, many think it will be a serious challenger to the iPad's crown...
Read more about New Technology for 2012.
Tag: Technology news
Posted at: 3/01/2012 12:45 PM by Moderator
To kick off 2012, this month we're featuring Focus for Facebook, an alternative to the official Facebook app that has a few nice features we'd like to share with you...
Read more about Focus for Facebook - App of the Month, January 2012.
Tag: App of the month
Posted at: 1/01/2012 12:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley
Post details Insight Radio is the radio station of RNIB and broadcasts music, information and interviews round the clock. The website allows you to listen to the station live, catch up with a show you missed, or browse the schedule...
Read more about Insight Radio - Website of the month, January 2012.
Tag: Website of the month
Posted at: 1/01/2012 9:00 AM by Steve Griffiths
In October, Apple released an update for the iOS software that runs on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Digital Accessibility had a quick look at this and the new iPhone 4S to see how accessibility has improved...
Read more about iOS 5 and iPhone 4S.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 21/12/2011 2:00 PM by Steve Griffiths
RNIB National Library Service is hosting an introduction to eBook readers event at National Library Service, Bredbury near Stockport on Wednesday 8th February 2012, 10.00 am to 12.30 pm Wednesday 8th February 2012, 1.30 pm to 4...
Read more about Introduction to eBook readers.
Tag: Technology events
Posted at: 13/12/2011 2:15 PM by Steve Griffiths
Interactive whiteboards are widely used in education, but when I was asked to pull together some basic information about them earlier this year, I found there was little available...
Read more about Interactive whiteboard.
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Posted at: 12/12/2011 4:30 PM by Moderator
Santa brought me an early Christmas present yesterday - a Chromebook! Chromebooks have been around since the summer, but this was the first time I'd actually seen one, so of course I had to stop what I was doing to play with it...
Read more about Setting up a Chromebook with speech.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 9/12/2011 12:15 PM by Steve Griffiths
December's Featured Website is EasyChirp... EasyChirp, formerly known as Accessible Twitter, is an alternative and accessible site which you can use to post tweets on the Twitter website...
Read more about EasyChirp - Featured Website, December 2011.
Tag: Website of the month
Posted at: 1/12/2011 3:30 PM by Andrew Ronksley
TouchPal Keyboard is a replacement keyboard for the standard on-screen keyboard that comes with all Android phones. It has a few nice tricks up its sleeve that we'd like to share with you...
Read more about TouchPal Keyboard - App of the Month, December 2011.
Tag: App of the month
Posted at: 1/12/2011 12:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley