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Author: Gisele Mesnage (page 2)

DDA Standards: A Good First Step for an Inclusive Digital Society

Categorized in: Archived Articles Posted on: October 19, 2015 Last updated on: June 20, 2023 Written by: Gisele Mesnage Comments: 61
Access to technology is at least as important as accessing premises. One struggles to find a transaction that, these days, takes place without the use of digital technology – computers, payment devices, mobile phones and tablets, white goods and appliances.…
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Councils set to leave a bad Taste in the mouth of disabled event-goers across Australia

Categorized in: Archived Articles Posted on: September 27, 2015 Last updated on: June 20, 2023 Written by: Gisele Mesnage Comments: 2,824
Hobart City Council is on the verge of signing up to use the Commonwealth Bank’s inaccessible EFTPOS tablet, Albert as the key payment device for their 2015/16 Taste of Tasmania food festival. The Digital Gap Initiative wrote about this device…
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Commbank’s new EFTPOS “Albert”: Accessibility short-changed

Categorized in: Archived Articles Posted on: September 10, 2015 Last updated on: June 20, 2023 Written by: Gisele Mesnage Comments: 7,856
Our first editorial is not published with the intent of naming and shaming the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) or any other business. Our message is that the story of Albert highlights the need for national, compliance-based standards on digital…
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Accessibility is Logical. Vale Mr Spock, Vale Leonard Nimoy

Categorized in: Archived Articles Posted on: March 1, 2015 Last updated on: June 20, 2023 Written by: Gisele Mesnage Comments: 33,976
The Star Trek series was avant-garde not only because of its theme of the voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise in deep space, but also because it portrayed such an optimistic vision of the future. The idea of men and…
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