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Apple announces powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities
This is truly wonderful news! Apple has announced powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities. They’re all wonderful and I will detail their features below but one particularly interests me. It is the Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and Audiogram Support features. Many of you will be aware that I cannot hear, so to manage, I wear hearing aids but the ones I wear are not ‘Made for iPhone Hearing Aids’ so I cannot benefit from this significant update but for people who can afford to have this style of hearing aid, just being able to upload your audiogram chart directly to adjust the sensitivity of your hearing aid, is…
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Short Film Series & Photo Exhibition Launches Featuring the Work of Five Extraordinary Photographers
A series of five short films followed by a London photo exhibition launches today featuring the work of five photographers overcoming their own personal battles to shoot extraordinary images across a dynamic range of subjects. Ian Treherne is profoundly deaf and almost totally blind. He shoots portraiture that evokes the way he sees the world Jim Mortram’s own recovery from anxiety and depression started when he was gifted a camera. He now trains his lens on others living on the margins of society in his award-winning photo-documentary blog Hannah Laycock uses photographic art to raise awareness of Multiple Sclerosis Giles Duley stepped on an IED while shooting in Afghanistan. Told…