Microsoft Hack for Good Sydney 

March 8 and 9 2018 (in conjunction with Social Ventures Australia)

I was lucky enough to attend and judge Hack4Good at PwC’s Barangaroo offices last week with 12 of Microsoft’s  partner organisations participating hosted by David Masters from Microsoft.

The event focused on hacking solutions for people with disabilities.

There  were three winning teams: Humanitix who are transforming their event platform so that those with a disability can clearly communicate their accessibility needs to event organisers, Clinic to Cloud who proposed a personal disability passport to easily communicate with service providers, and PwC who explored the use of Microsofts cognitive services to clearly communicate the emotions of users during a  Skype call for those who may not be able to see or hear.

With one in five Australians living with a disability today, it was inspiring to see the commitment to accessibility from Microsofts  partner community. 

A big thanks to PwC for hosting the event and to Leonie from the Deaf Society of NSW, Rocco from KPMG, Kenny from Microsoft, Dianne from Social Ventures Australia and David Masters for their invaluable guidance to Microsoft  teams over the course of the hack.

Skype Accessibility from the Skype Blog

From the Skype blog, Microsoft will be working hard to improve accessibility of Skype arose iOS, Android, Mac and Windows, and are urging people to give them feedback.

https://blogs.skype.com/news/2018/03/16/improving-skype-accessibility/#.WqxltA6wSJw.twitter

A Reminder the CSUN 2018 is on This Week

If you use Twitter and you want to follow what is going on with CSUN, follow the Hash Tag CSUNATC18.

We’ll have lots to talk about next week from CSUN.

A great resource for news and audio interviews from CSUN 2018 is Blind Bargains who will be bringing us news and interviews.

Apple’s first Coding Session for Blind o