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People with commonly autocorrected names call for tech firms to fix problem, one person whose name gets switched to “Satan” says: “I am tired of it.”
‘I am not a typo’ campaign is calling for technology companies to make autocorrect less ‘western- and white-focused’
Microsoft has previously launched an inclusiveness spellchecker in its Office 365 software, which can be enabled to prompt the user, for example, to switch “headmaster” to “principal”, “master” to “expert” and “manpower” to “workforce”. Last year, People Like Us, a not for profit organisation, ran a billboard campaign highlighting autocorrect bias in favour of British heritage and linked the issue to the ethnicity pay gap. Karen Fox, whose children are called Eoin and Niamh, said of autocorrect: “The red line bothers me – I didn’t choose the ‘wrong’ name for my child.
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