Tag Archives: Accessible

Google kicked off December with a “special delivery” of new features for Android. Google In a post published on its Keyword blog this week, Google announced a new accessibility-oriented feature for Android called Reading Mode. The software is amongst a slew of other quality-of-life enhancements for the platform, the most notable of which is a search widget expressly designed for YouTube videos. “The holiday season has arrived, and we’re celebrating with a bundle of new features from… Source link

Melody Meckfessel, ex-VP of Engineering at Google and Co-founder and CEO of Observable, sat down with Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT) to share her perspectives. Observable is a collaborative web-based platform that empowers data scientists, data analysts, developers and decision makers to uncover new insights and make better data-driven decisions. Observable is a collaborative web-based platform that empowers data scientists, data analysts, … [+] developers and decision makers to uncover… Source link

Google’s Android Studio now helps developers scan for accessibility issues in their apps. Google Images As iPhone and Apple Watch are the standard-bearers in their respective product categories, so too is Apple the standard-bearer when it comes to designing and shipping best-of-breed assistive technologies. The Cupertino company has long been lauded by those in the disability community as creating the best accessibility software, just as iPhone is the best smartphone and Apple Watch… Source link

The Chromecast with Google TV even comes in colors: white, blue, or pink. Google Images Until a few weeks ago, the Apple TV 4K had not seen an update since the device was introduced in September 2017. The software it runs, tvOS, obviously has been updated in the time since, but the additions have more iterative than transformative. It would not be unreasonable to conclude the operating system, as a whole, is not as loved by Apple as much as the company loves, say, macOS or… Source link