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Microsoft has emphasized that Windows 11 is built with accessibility in mind through new and redesigned components, services, and APIs. It calls this initiative the "modern accessibility platform".

Be My Eyes is an app that caters to people who are blind or have low vision. Microsoft will now be offering technical assistance to customers of Be My Eyes via its Disability Answer Desk.

Facebook has announced some new face recognition tools on its social media platform which will stop malicious parties using pictures to impersonate another person. The tools will also help the blind.

A new headset designed by Microsoft works with Windows Phone to help blind people navigate cities via GPS and beacons, which could transform a way of life for millions around the world.

An Indian company has developed 'smartshoes' that vibrate to help you to navigate around town. Originally developed to help the blind, they also include fitness sensors, and go on sale in September.

Microsoft has been developing a new wearable device: a 'smart headband' that can help blind people to 'see' the world around them - although not quite in the way you may be imagining.

We like to highlight quality posts that hit our forum and in today's edition of "From the Forums", one of our readers noticed several errors that made there way to the RTM build of Windows 8.

Imagine a world where you can't see the text on this screen, then think about trying to venture out of your house. With the power of Kinect, the blind will soon have a new companion to travel about.

Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind. Because hybrids make virtually no noise at slower speeds when they run solely...

Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC), a system that Microsoft says makes the new operating system safer from attack, can be spoofed and shouldn't be completely trusted, said a Symantec researcher. Ollie Whitehouse, an architect...