Accessibility

There's some positive news on the accessibility front coming out of . Alongside the business-oriented Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10, the company has revealed the first Surface Pro Keyboard with bold keys. Compared with its other keyboards, Microsoft says this one has a brighter backlight that, combined with the bold font, should make the keyboard easier to read and reduce eye strain. Of note, the keyboard will only be available in US English and exclusively in the US and Canada.As with other new Windows keyboards,…

To coincide with the launch of iPhone 16 this year, iOS 18 is said to have a huge focus on accessibility — something Apple has been notoriously good for.According to MacRumors, which cites “industry sources,” there are tons of new accessibility features that may be with iOS 18, which is anticipated to release in September this year. The first of these is “Adaptive Voice Shortcuts,” which could allow users to set up shortcuts for accessibility functions like VoiceOver and Zoom. Instead of having to manually change the…

Published By: Samreen PallLast Updated: March 08, 2024, 15:09 ISTDelhi Metro: New Software Launched To Streamline Complaints Management.(File photo)Delhi Metro introduces homegrown software for efficient grievance management, ensuring real-time monitoring and streamlined redressal.Delhi Metro on Thursday launched a customised and homegrown software that streamlines and smoothens its customer grievance management mechanism by analysing the nature of complaints and the level of their satisfactory disposal.In a statement,…

At its 14th Ability summit, which kicks off today, Microsoft is highlighting developments and collaborations across its portfolio of assistive products. Much of that is around Azure AI, including features announced yesterday like AI-powered audio descriptions and the Azure AI studio that better enables developers with disabilities to create machine-learning applications. It also showed off new updates like more languages and richer AI-generated descriptions for its Seeing AI tool, as well as new playbooks offering…

ChatGPT has received a new accessibility feature that can be helpful for visually impaired people. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot by OpenAI announced a Read Aloud feature on Monday that can read out its written responses. The new feature is a different functionality from the voice chat feature that was introduced in September 2023 and uses the AI model's multimodal capabilities. Notably, an earlier report also revealed that the Android app version of the chatbot could soon get a home-screen widget.The…

Google announced a new set of features for phones, cars, and wearables today at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. These features include using Gemini to craft messages, AI-generated captions for images, summarizing texts through AI for Android Auto, and access to passes on Wear OS. The company’s Gemini implementation for image generation is facing a lot of criticism. But that isn’t stopping Google from rolling it out in a different context. The company said that starting this week,…

Access to digital education will be a gamechanger in unlocking India’s economic potential as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) could provide a unique advantage for people here, Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of edtech platform Coursera, said on Friday.There is a huge reskilling opportunity for generative AI, which can close the gap between average and high performers, and reshape the world to make it a more equal place, Maggioncalda said. “For this to happen, people need access to education,” he added.Elevate Your Tech…

Square Enix There’s a new multiplayer game in Town: Foamstars. Square Enix’s latest is a riff on Splatoon that trades in ink for suds. I went into it expecting a quirky little arena shooter that would give me a weekend or two of fun before running out of steam as its live-service model began to rear its head. What I wasn’t expecting was a mountain of legibility problems that made it hard for me to tell what I was doing. The basic idea of Foamstars was always centered around blasting both the arena and opponents with…

The iOS 17.4 beta will bring the ability for shows in Apple Podcasts to have a transcript, which can be viewed soon after an episode has been published.In a post detailing the new feature, Apple described how transcripts would work in iOS 17.4. “Apple automatically generates transcripts after a new episode is published. Your episode will be available for listening right away, and the transcript will be available shortly afterward. There will be a short delay while we process your transcript.”When you use the Apple…

Last Updated: January 13, 2024, 09:52 ISTAn inside view of the Maharishi Valmiki International Airport, Ayodhya Dham, which will be inaugurated by PM Modi on December 30. (File photo: ANI)Ayodhya readies for the Ram temple ceremony on Jan 22. Enhanced accessibility includes SpiceJet flights, a new airport, and direct bus services from Haridwar.Ayodhya is gearing up for the much-anticipated consecration ceremony of the Ram temple on January 22.As the excitement builds, the accessibility to this sacred city has been…