Transport

Are airline check-in kiosks onboard with accessibility?

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E-Access Bulletin

Readers who have travelled by air in the past few years are likely to have come across new technologies designed to enhance the convenience of travel such as automated kiosks where people can check in without queuing for hours in a barely-moving queue of bored passengers.

As so often with new technologies, however, it seems that their accessibility for people with disabilities was not always considered when they were first being developed. And now, in the US, the issue is about to hit the courts.

'Dutch public administrations lack the will to share software'

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JoinUp

Many public administrations don't want to share with their colleagues the software solutions that they paid for, said Mathieu Paapst, a legal researcher at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, in an interview last Thursday. To overcome this barrier to sharing and re-use, the Dutch government should force public organisations to pool IT budgets.

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Martyn Sibley: From LA To Australia: Travels Around Technology

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E-Access Bulletin

By Tristan Parker

Co-founder and co-editor of the online disability lifestyle magazine Disability Horizons, Martyn Sibley has become an influential voice in the disability community. A keen technology user and advocate, Martyn has run his own social media consultancy, is a frequent blogger, and has developed a number of e-learning and e- campaigning projects alongside his journalism. Here, he talks to E-Access Bulletin about the opportunities new technologies have given him over the years.

Conference report – Vision for Equality: Mind the Gap

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E-Access Bulletin

By Tristan Parker

The spectre of public spending cuts hovered darkly over last month’s Vision for Equality Conference in London, organised by the charity Guide Dogs ( http://www.guidedogs.org.uk ).

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