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  1. Alba uses her iPhone at her kitchen table
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    Author: Guide Dogs' Information and Advice Team
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    Apple demonstrates its commitment to accessibility with a host of new features and updates, which can be so helpful for people with vision impairment and other disabilities. This latest update is designed to empower users, making interacting with your Apple devices more seamless and intuitive than ever.

  2. Marie wearing smart glasses and using her phone
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    Author: Guide Dogs' Information and Advice Team

    Smart glasses are increasing in popularity, with tech-giants such as Google and Amazon producing their own smart-glasses variants. For people living with visual impairment, these glasses have a range of features which can help with navigation, locating objects and day-to-day tasks. Here, we review the latest updates to the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

  3. A woman sits at her kitchen table where an Amazon Echo is attached to the wall next to her. She speaks to the Alexa voice assistant.
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    Author: Guide Dogs' Information and Advice Team

    Now that generative AI has come onto the scene, more technology is being integrated with AI features, and this includes virtual assistants. The latest upgrade is to the Google Assistant with the introduction of Google Gemini, it’s AI large language model (formerly known as Bard).

  4. A woman is sat at a table in her kitchen, giving voice instructions to her Amazon Echo smart speaker.
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    Author: Guide Dogs' Information and Advice Team

    Matter is a type of 'language' which allows different smart home products to talk to each other. Even if all your devices come from different brands, if they're compliant with Matter you can seamlessly connect and use them together. Find out how it will make it easier for people with a vision impairment to choose accessible smart home products that can all be connected via one system.

  5. Looking down into the atrium of Google's Accessibility Discover Centre from the top floor.
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    Author: Siobhan Meade

    As a blind person, I recently had the incredible opportunity to visit Google's Accessibility Discovery Centre in London. It is a place where engineers, researchers, product teams, and partners come together to create ground-breaking accessible technologies. This centre aims to eliminate the barriers faced by people with disabilities on a daily basis.

  6. Darren and Pooja, who are sat together at a table, are laughing as they sharing a joke. Darren, who has sight loss, is holding an iPhone.
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    Author: Siobhan Meade

    Apple's commitment to enhancing accessibility for all users shines through once again with the release of iOS 17. This latest software update brings a host of improvements designed to make the iPhone experience more accessible for people with vision impairments. In this comprehensive guide, we'll take a closer look at the notable features and enhancements that iOS 17 offers to empower users with accessibility requirements.

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