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Color can convey a mood or elicit a particular emotion and, in terms of web design, color can influence attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. However, many websites demonstrate inaccessible color choices. Numerous online color palette design tools only focus on assisting designers with either the aesthetics or accessibility of colors.

This paper in ACM TACCESS presents the Accessible Color Evaluator (ACE, daprlab.com/ace) which enhances web developers’ and designers’ ability to balance aesthetic and accessibility constraints.

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Pilot, the real-time universal translator, is straight out of a sci-fi novel

The ability to understand someone speaking a foreign language could soon be as easy as wearing a new earpiece.

Waverly Labs is behind an earpiece called the Pilot that is eerily similar in scope to Star Trek’s Universal Translator  that allows individuals to translate languages in real-time.

The smart earpiece works by canceling out ambient noise to concentrate on what is being said by a speaker

And then funnels that data to a complementary app that screens it for translation and speech synthesis, according to its website.

Pilot isn’t the first — and likely won’t be the last — piece of tech made for the translation marketplace.

However, where this device really shines is with its instantaneous translation possibilities that remove the sometimes awkward waiting game. Read more

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Google AutoDraw help you doodle

Google launched AutoDraw, a web application that uses machine learning algorithms to match doodles you draw with professionally made doodles. The application is not very efficient now, but it is expected that the algorithm will learn and become more and more efficient at identifying your doodles …