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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>Age doesn’t bridge the digital skills chasm, new research reveals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans with disabilities are using technology at a lower rate than those without a disability – including teenagers and younger citizens – research has found. In the report, conducted by the United States-based Pew Research Center (which defines itself as a “nonpartisan fact tank”), those with disabilities in the two age groups measured (18-64 and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Many US government sites not accessible for disabled users, claims new research</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Various high-profile US government websites, including major service portals, are not accessible for users with disabilities, according to a new study. The ‘Benchmarking U.S. Government Websites’ report found that 42% of US federal sites tested failed to meet the necessary accessibility criteria. The report aims to give a broad picture of US government website usability [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Sonya Huber, Disability March – impactful online activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 21 2017, around half a million people took part in the Women&#8217;s March in Washington D. C. Symbolically scheduled for the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as 45th President of the United States, the aim of the Women’s March was to support and stand up for women’s rights and equality around the world, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>US Congress called on to create technology equality bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Council on Disability (NCD) has made a series of recommendations to the United States Government on making technology more accessible, including a call to establish a ‘Technology Bill of Rights for People with Disabilities’. Other recommendations called for by the NCD (which is tasked with advising key strands of the US Government on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of skills and awareness fuel web inaccessibility, survey finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Jellinek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lack of skills or knowledge and lack of awareness of web accessibility are responsible for the great majority of website accessibility problems, according to a US survey of web accessibility practitioners. Almost four in 10 respondents (36.6%) rated lack of skills and knowledge as the primary reason behind web site accessibility; and only slightly fewer [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Joysticks and 3-D printing among accessible election prototypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 16:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Jellinek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voting with joysticks and 3-D printed accessible cases for tablet computers housing voting systems are among innovations presented in a new report on making elections more accessible for people with disabilities published this month by the US Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). “Innovations for accessible elections” assesses several years of ITIF research and development [&#8230;]]]></description>
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