Sony has teamed up with accessibility experts to announce a PlayStation 5 controller for disabled gamers. Project Leonardo is a “highly customisable kit” of different buttons, triggers and sticks that lets players create a set-up that suits their needs. Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller, released in 2018, sells for £74.99 at its UK store – though extraContinue reading “CES 2023: Sony unveils controller for disabled gamers”
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Google opens its first UK centre making tech for disabled people
If you design technology with disabled people in mind, you design technology better for everyone. This was the sentiment from Google as it opened its first UK research and development centre dedicated to making tech to help people with disabilities. The Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People andContinue reading “Google opens its first UK centre making tech for disabled people”
Covid: Deaf woman wins claim over lack of sign language at briefings
A deaf woman has won a claim against the government after a judge found a lack of sign language at two Covid briefings “served to disempower, to frustrate and to marginalise”.Katie Rowley, 36, from Leeds, started court action after the sessions went ahead without interpreters on screen. The government denied breaching its legal obligation toContinue reading “Covid: Deaf woman wins claim over lack of sign language at briefings”
Dad-to-be hopes embroidered scans will help blind parents
A blind father-to-be, who was given an embroidered picture of his baby scan as a gift, plans to set up an organisation to help other blind parents. Nathan Edge, from Mansfield, was given the tactile stitched picture of his baby son’s 12-week scan by his friend Deb Fisher. He said he had “sort of accepted”Continue reading “Dad-to-be hopes embroidered scans will help blind parents”
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