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Artificial Trees, Water Purification, GPS Plastic and VR/AR Tourism.

In today's Tech With Purpose news summary, we look at 🟢 AR & VR Tourism taking off 🟢 Clearing the judiciary backlog over video 🟢 BT's Tech4Good awards open for entries 🟢 Food waste is one of the biggest climate impactors, a UK scheme to tackle this expands 🟢 Plastic tracking with GOS 🟢 Hydrogen news 🟢 Digital teaching 🟢 Artificial trees and much more. Check out the article, and don't forget to sign up for more news - we plant a tree for every new subscriber.

In this week’s Tech With Purpose news summary: Carbon breathing and oxygen emitting artificial trees, Carlsberg Group and Desolenator making clean water, a new hydrogen facility in Glasgow, New York City’s first e-scooter pilot, VR And AR transforming the travel industry and remote hearings clear Supreme Court backlog. On May 19th London’s Science Museum will commence the ‘Our Future’ exhibition…

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Ability Net

Do you need help in making your computer easier to use? Let’s look at the many ways you can make your keyboard and mouse, Windows, the internet and your favourite applications suit you and your needs:- https://mcmw.abilitynet.org.uk/  

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Accessibility from a dev perspective

There are over 11 million people i the UK with limiting long-term illness, impairment of disability.

Examples include:

Visual impairments

Motor impairments

Auditory impairments

Seizures

Cognitive, such as learning disabilities

Key resources:

http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ - key guidelines to be followed

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Here's a great resource from Abilitynet on digital accessibility.

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AbilityNet is a UK charity that deals with disabilities and technology (carrying out accessibility audits, disabled user testing, and web design). As well as looking at the Web, they assess people at home or in work to make sure that they can use various computing devices, mobile phones, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics.

Photo by Naomi Kelly.

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Mariella Frostrup, Technology For Good Awards, London (Commissioned by Abilitynet)

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