Accessibility

With Final Fantasy XVI’s new, action-focused combat scheme comes a new suite of tools that assist with making that combat easier. These tools were billed as the game’s accessibility features but weren’t tied to a menu setting; rather, they were special rings you could equip that were already in your inventory at the game’s start. When equipped, each of the five rings assisted with one facet of the game’s combat. I loved this approach to Final Fantasy’s combat. Though the series hasn’t featured turn-based combat since…

Reddit has announced that it would improve the accessibility features for community moderator tools available in the official mobile apps by July 1st.On Friday, Reddit's Product Director "u/joyventure" announced that the platform is dedicated to facilitating moderators who use assistive technology to moderate via Reddit's iOS and Android apps. Following discussions with these moderators who use third-party apps for assistive tech, Reddit will be modifying its own mobile application.Many moderators use third-party apps…

Samsung's SeeColors mode will be added to the company's TV and monitor models launched in 2023, the company announced on Sunday. The accessibility feature is designed with the aim of helping users who are affected by colour vision deficiency (CVD) — more commonly known as colour blindness — see content on better on a screen. Previously available as an app, the SeeColors feature will roll out to customers who have already purchased the company's TVs and monitors launched this year as a software…

Last updated: June 26th, 2023 at 10:54 UTC+02:00 Samsung has announced the introduction of a new accessibility feature to its TVs and monitors launched in 2023. The ‘SeeColors Mode’ will allow color-blind users to set the color settings as per their CVD (Color Vision Deficiency). This will make their content-viewing experience more enjoyable. Moreover, the SeeColors Mode on the Samsung 2023 TV and monitor lineup has received ‘Color Vision Accessibility’ certification from TUV Rheinland. This adds credibility to…

Image Source : FILE Reddit introduces accessibility updates for moderators: What it means? Reddit has announced upcoming accessibility updates specifically aimed at improving the experience for moderators who use assistive technology. The updates, set to roll out starting next month to make moderation tasks more accessible and user-friendly on Reddit's iOS and Android…

On April 3, 2010, Steve Jobs debuted the iPad. What for most people was basically a more convenient form factor was something far more consequential for non-speakers: a life-­changing revolution in access to a portable, powerful communication device for just a few hundred dollars.But a piece of hardware, however impressively designed and engineered, is only as valuable as what a person can do with it. After the iPad’s release, the flood of new, easy-to-use augmentative and alternative communication apps that users were…

The default TouchChat display of PRC-Saltillo’s communication device, for example, consists of 12 rows of eight buttons displaying a mix of letters, object icons (“apple”), category icons (“food”), and navigation elements (back arrows)—many of them in garish neon colors. Part of what I find infuriating about the interface is how it treats every button similarly—they’re all the same size, 200 by 200 pixels, and there’s no obvious logic to button placement, text size, or capitalization. Some words are oddly abbreviated…

Last updated: June 19th, 2023 at 14:28 UTC+02:00 Samsung AR Zone is getting improvements to the AR Emoji Editor component through a new Galaxy Store update that pushes the app to version 5.2.00.10. The update is quite sizeable and weighs a little over 175MB. AR Emoji Editor 5.2.00.10 fixes errors that the changelog doesn’t specify but also adds an accessibility feature. Thanks to this update, AR Emoji Editor now supports talkback. New accessibility tools are appreciated and should be integrated with more apps and…

In a significant development, the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV), the registered association representing Indian manufacturers of electric vehicles, has approached Niti Aayog, urging them to address the damaging consequences of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME) 2 policy.SMEV argues that the policy’s series of adverse actions over the past year has severely hindered the nation’s ambitious E-Mobility charter, leading to a significant setback in achieving its…

Back in 2019, French car maker Citroën sowed a compact electric pod-car at the Geneva Motor Show that could be driven without a license. Production followed a year later and we've since seen the cutesy Ami take a number of different guises – including delivery duties and adventuring.Now the company has prototyped an even more accessible creature at the 2023 Paris Autonomic trade fair that's designed "to restore autonomy to those who have lost it." Developed in collaboration with conversion specialist PIMAS, the Ami for…