The Department of Justice has provided the FCC with new recommendations for governing spectrum auctions, and with a heavy emphasis on leveling the playing field, the findings are likely to draw the ire of AT&T and Verizon. In its briefing, the DO…
The web is an integral part of the way we reach out and communicate with one another, but navigating the internet can be difficult for those who are deaf and blind. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the efforts of some individua…
Google this week introduced two new accessibility features for Google+ Hangouts, as part of its ongoing efforts to bring its video conferencing service to disabled users. The company’s Sign Language Interpreter app allows user…
In a change of conversation that would make Don Draper proud, Netflix has picked up its blogging pen and accentuated the positive, even as hundreds of titles provided by Starz Play blinked away this week. The first bit of good news? Content that’s com…
Engineers from Google have commandeered a booth at this year’s CSUN accessibility conference and they’re keen to talk up their latest efforts. For the visually impaired, there’s now a beta version of a Chrome screen reader called ChromeVox (demo’d aft…
Nintendo and NTT DoCoMo are reportedly teaming up in order to create a voice-to-text system that’ll help hearing-impaired children study. Using a modified DSi, speech is converted into text which is then archived in the cloud — accessible afterward …
After a controversial presidential election that saw Joseph Kabila retain the office amid fierce protests, the Democratic Republic of Congo has shut down the nation’s text messaging services in order to restore public order. Civil liberties concer…
If you’re one of the 200,000 deaf people who’ve received cochlear implants, then here’s an upgrade worth considering: the Neptune from Advanced Bionics claims to be “the world’s first and only swimmable, waterproof sound processor,” and it’s just re…
