Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Renewing Car Tax Online

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Just a quick one for car drivers out there in the UK. My car had its MOT recently. The DVLA has computerised the system, which meant that I was able to renew my car tax online instead of queueing in the Post Office. It was fab! and the new disk arrived within a week. Brill! [...]

Skype is 3 years old

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

And a whole heap of people celebrated by going online – 7 million of us at one time. If you don’t have Skype yet, it’s worth looking at if you’ve got a broadband connection. You get calls to other Skype users in the whole world for free. And that’s got to be good, I reckon. [...]

UN to finalise disability treaty

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Thought this might be interesting for you to read: UN to finalise disability treaty from the BBC news page. About time too if you ask me. The report highlights the fact that in developing countries, 90 percent of disabled children don’t go to school.
Countries that sign up to the resolution will have to enact [...]

Google tests Web search for blind – Yahoo! News UK

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Came across this news recently. It seems that Google are looking into the possibility of checking websites for their accessibiiyt for people who use screen readers – software that enables blind and partialyy sighted computer users to access inter pages.
These software packages, such as Jaws, Hal, Window-Eyes, have spicific things that make web pages accessible. [...]

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