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Disabled jobseekers snubbed by employers
News Over one million disabled people are looking for work, but employers say they are unaware of it, with 75 per cent claiming they have never had the opportunity to hire a disabled person. Research from totaljobs' partner, jobability.com, shows only...
[March 15, 2002, 10:23]
Mobile users make same errors as disabled PC users
News Mobile-device users find they have the same usability problems that some disabled users encounter with PCs, according to researchers from the University of Manchester. In recent years, solutions have been built to help disabled users that can now...
[July 2, 2008, 17:43]
Web sites under scrutiny for disabled access
News The first formal investigation into Web site access for Britain's 8.5 million disabled people has been launched by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). In addition, 50 disabled people will be involved in in-depth testing of a representative...
[April 8, 2003, 11:00]
New Facebook 'temporarily disabled'
Blog Where there is a message at the top of the screen saying "Sorry, the new facebook is temporarily disabled". Been having a bugger of a time with the "new" Facebook this morning. After loading it up, none of the click-thru links are working.
[August 5, 2008, 11:51]
Disabled jobseeker initiative gets European recognition
News Together with Workability - a scheme which provides computers and training for disabled people - jobability forms part of an initiative involving totaljobs, disability charity Leonard Cheshire and Microsoft UK.
[November 21, 2002, 14:40]
Microsoft: Many Windows 7 features can be disabled
News Microsoft declined to comment on what role, if any, antitrust and regulatory issues played in the decision to expand the number of Windows components that can be disabled. Microsoft on Friday said that with Windows 7, customers will have the option...
[March 9, 2009, 10:31]
Disabled and elderly excluded by new technology
News Charities are calling upon businesses, the IT industry and government to make technologies such as PCs, mobile phones and televisions more easily accessible and affordable for disabled people and the elderly.
[May 15, 2006, 16:05]
Firefox plug-in disabled due to security risk
News Mozilla on Friday disabled a Microsoft plug-in for Firefox called the .Net Framework Assistant because of a security problem — then scrambled to give people with patched systems an override option. Because of the difficulties some users have had...
[October 19, 2009, 11:19]
Call for law to improve websites for disabled
News European information commissioner Viviane Reding has proposed a pan-European law that would ensure website accessibility for disabled people. It also leaves disabled people without a consistent level of service that they can expect.
[October 2, 2009, 17:24]
Firefox plug-in disabled due to security risk.
Talkback Microsoft continues giving more reasons to switch to MAC, Linux.
[October 21, 2009, 13:55]
Guess which google function should probably be disabled (for now)...
Talkback Until this gets resolved, it would appear that anyone who clicks the "I'm Feeling Lucky" google search button is probably waaay ~under-informed~ about just how "Lucky" it might be to go straight to the first site returned by any given search...
[December 12, 2007, 2:45]
Secure Remote Voting for Overseas and Disabled Voters
White Papers As a recent report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) explained, the easiest-to-solve portion of UOCAVA voting is simply delivering ballots to voters. Technologies as simple as email and fax can transmit a blank ballot...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
RIAA Web site disabled by attack
News The Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Web site was unreachable over the weekend due to a denial-of-service attack. The apparently deliberate overload rendered the RIAA.org site unavailable for portions of four days and came after...
[July 30, 2002, 7:43]
Mentally disabled ffs!
Talkback You DO know what Aspergers is, I take it? The man is chronically fixated on fantasies and lives in his own world, no disrespect to sufferers. I have a son with autism, and whilst he knows right from wrong, and seems to most people to be completely...
[August 22, 2009, 15:42]
Facebook disables rogue apps, but more appear
News Facebook on Thursday said it had disabled six rogue apps that were stealing Facebook users' log-in credentials and spamming people, and within hours more appeared. By that night those new ones were disabled too.
[August 21, 2009, 9:12]
iTunes upgrade disables plug-in
News With the latest version of iTunes, Apple has disabled an add-on program that let people transfer songs from their iPod. An Apple representative did not say why the company had disabled support for iPodDownload.
[November 3, 2004, 8:08]
Segway gains a seat
Talkback You report this is for "disabled Segway users". Did they become disabled by using the stand-up Segway in a George Bush style accident, or before using the Segway? In any application Segway suffers to a greater extent from the same problem dear old...
[June 19, 2006, 14:45]
Microsoft patches firewall problems
Talkback I disabled windows firewall and it disabled my symantec firewall as well without my being aware.then got a message from windows to enable.and it enabled both again.long story short I figured out to disable windows and manually enable synmantec.it...
[November 2, 2005, 20:49]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback Norton (and others) scan OUTGOING email, this cannot be disabled. Anyone know if others can be disabled? Thats ok until oyu try to send Mail Merge emails. Norton then thinks they are SPAM and rejects them.
[July 25, 2006, 10:54]
Experts warn on 'unpatched' vulnerability
Talkback I have had ActiveX controls disabled for the last 3 years or so, and I just want to say that this is one of the most irritating things about Microsoft, and Internet Explorer. The next time you do a story about this, can you please ask Microsoft why...
[September 29, 2003, 13:12]
