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		<title>Inaccessible retail sites continue to miss out on millions, as new survey launches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of a survey to assess the online shopping experience of people with disabilities has launched, to find out whether businesses have improved their websites. The first Click-Away Pound (CAP) survey launched in 2016 and uncovered a range of issues. A key finding was that 70% of people with impairments simply ‘click away’ [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>One in five museums do not provide online access information, research uncovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Museums are inadvertently contributing to a “disability engagement gap” by not publishing accessibility information on their websites needed by millions of potential visitors, a new report has found. The State of Museum Access 2018 report found that people with disabilities are less likely to visit a museum if it does not provide this information on its website. Published by VocalEyes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible learning resources can help close disability employment gap, report claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 17:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making digital resources in further and higher education more accessible – in order to comply with new regulations – can improve disabled students’ learning experience and help get more disabled people into work, according to a new report. ‘Accessible Virtual Learning Environments’ was published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive Technology (APPGAT) and cross-party think-tank Policy Connect, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit claims Apple’s website is inaccessible for visually impaired users</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit has been filed against electronics giant Apple in the United States, over claims that its website violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and is not fully accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. The action has been taken by Himelda Mendez, described as “visually-impaired and legally blind” in the complaint [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Government stands by accessibility directive exemptions amid sector criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2018 23:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Government has published its response to consultation feedback on its plans to implement European accessibility legislation. At the end of April, the government launched the public consultation on the EU Directive on the accessibility of public sector websites and mobile applications, detailing how it planned to introduce and handle the directive. The consultation [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Government asks for public input on accessibility directive, but exemptions remain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2018 18:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Government is using a public consultation to help plan how European accessibility legislation will be implemented later this year. The EU Directive on the accessibility of public sector websites and mobile applications is scheduled to become legally binding in the UK on September 23 of this year. It aims to make public sector [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2018 – a snapshot of an evolving phenomenon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2018 17:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mel Poluck]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mel Poluck. Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) has grown rapidly in its short lifetime. Beginning with a blog post in 2011 entitled ‘Challenge: Accessibility know-how needs to go mainstream with developers. NOW’ that triggered the annual event, GAAD now counts the world’s technology giants among its participants. “It&#8217;s surreal that as a result of one blog [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Improve online booking to make live music events disability-friendly, says report</title>
		<link>http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=1574</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A survey has found that 79% of people with disabilities have been put off buying live music tickets due to problems with booking access requirements, and 73% have felt discriminated against when booking, with many of the issues related to problematic websites and online booking systems. The findings are taken from the State of Access [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding screen-reader navigation: a tale of two rooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Jones]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ryan Jones. [Editor’s note: This is an edited version of an article originally published by The Paciello Group, an international accessibility agency. The original post is linked to at the end of this article. Its author, Ryan Jones, is a project manager and trainer at The Paciello Group.] For those of us who use screen-reading [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Government asks the experts for guidance in assistive technology inquiry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accessibility professionals and assistive technology users have given the UK Government recommendations in an inquiry organised by the government’s Work and Pensions Select Committee. The inquiry looked at how technology can help improve employment rates among those with disabilities, as part of the government’s response to a report on the disability employment gap. During the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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