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Accessible iTunes: A Truly Large Font

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February 3, 2010
Accessible iTunes: A Truly Large Font

Despite Apple’s leading efforts in accessibility technology, I have always found iTunes extremely hard to use. Apple’s major focus has been on VoiceOver and screen reader software compatibility. There are many visually impaired computer users out there (and right here) who have not made the switch to a non-visual interface, preferring to rely...
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In Defense of Audiobooks: Another Success

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January 14, 2010
In Defense of Audiobooks: Another Success

Back in March of 2006, I contacted the author of an economics book that I was interested in reading. This was part of a personal campaign to encourage authors to produce audio editions of their books, blogged here.  The author graciously responded, offering to bring the subject up with his publisher. I have heard...
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Best Served Cold (& Audible)

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January 12, 2010
Best Served Cold (& Audible)

One of my favorite new authors is Joe Abercrombie. A few year ago, he published The First Law trilogy, a dark fantasy series, followed recently by Best Served Cold, a novel set I’m the First Law world. I picked up the first nook in the trilogy a few years ago in paperback and was...
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Trouble Focusing? Zoom in – Accessible Photography Tip

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July 21, 2009
Trouble Focusing? Zoom in – Accessible Photography Tip

I have had some trouble focusing recently. Not with concentrating (not more than usual anyway), but with my camera. Being visually impaired, I have to rely on my camera’s autofocus. Using manual focus requires that I can see the viewfinder. I use the viewfinder to compose (mostly), but definitely not to focus. Unfortunately, autofocus...
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Help Make WordPress Media More Accessible – Vote for Media Features

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July 12, 2009

The WordPress development team is planning to update WP’s media handling in the next version. Via WordPress › Blog » Vote for 2.9 Media Features, “A large percentage of the requests we get from users are for more/better media features, so we’ve decided to focus 2.9 on building an infrastructure for improved media handling...
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The First Law Series Going Audible

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July 10, 2009
The First Law Series Going Audible

Today, author Joe Abercrombie announced that his new book, Best Served Cold will be released in the US on the Kindle. I have found the Kindle app on my iPod Touch to be very readable on the largest font setting  and with the inverse color scheme (white text on a black background). Despite this,...
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Firefox Accessibilty Programmer on BusinessWeek

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July 9, 2009
Firefox Accessibilty Programmer on BusinessWeek

I blog quite a bit about acceptability and one of my favorite topics is the Firefox browser. One of the programmers who helps make Firefox such an accessible way to use the internet is a guy named Ken Saunders. And he is now famous. BusinessWeek featured Ken in a recent article, Mozilla’s Crowdsourcing Mystique...
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The Pumpkin Run 2009

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October 24, 2009

I completed my first race today. 4 kilometers in 26 minutes! Thanks to my wife, I have some images...
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Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta Now Available!

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October 22, 2009

Adobe has released the beta version of Lightroom 3 for free (until April). If you have been thinking about...
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Holiday Over, Blog Back!

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October 12, 2009

After being busy for a few months, I am getting back to blogging. I have a bunch of articles...
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Lens Blog @ NYTimes.com

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June 18, 2009

NYTimes.com has a great new blog, the Lens Blog, which deals with “Photojournalism – Photography, Video and Visual Journalism...
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Tank Man of Tiananmen @ Lens Blog

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June 3, 2009

I ran across a great article, Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen via Lens Blog @ NYTimes.com, detailing...
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Rotating Images on the iPhone

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June 1, 2009

As I noted when I Bought My First iPhone App, there is no built-in way to totate images on...
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iPhone Tip: If Found Apps

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May 30, 2009

A while back I posted a tip about adding IDs to the iPhone wallpaper. This tip involved adding your...
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iPhone Tip: Adding ID to iPhone Home Screen

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May 11, 2009

Ken Rockwell has a great tip on How to add your ID to your iPhone and iPod Touch. Wouldn’t it...
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Lancaster’s Blind Photographer Has an Eye for Business

Lancaster’s Blind Photographer Has an Eye for Business

Spotted on Twitter, Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry published a story on a local blind photographer in their Connections magazine last February. The article, Blind Photographer Has an Eye for Business, features Matt Wilkerson, owner of Coe Camera Shop. Wilkerson, who inherited his photography store from his father, has retinosa pigmentosa,...

A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers

A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers

As spotted on Twitter, Bruce Hall with Corinne Marrinan are presenting A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers Thursday, February 4, 6:30-8:00pm as part of the IRIS Nights Lecture Series at The Annenberg Space for Photography in LA. The film that they will be discussing, Dark Light, is...

What the Apple Tablet May Mean to Blind Photographers

What the Apple Tablet May Mean to Blind Photographers

As I followed today’s announcement of the new Apple iPad, I began to imagine how, if at all,  it could make photography easier. I already have its tiny older sibling, the iPod Touch, which I am using to compose this post. The iPad looks to be mostly a jumbo version of the Touch. The...

John Dugdale via The Miracle Worker on Broadway

John Dugdale via The Miracle Worker on Broadway

Blind photographer and artist,  John Dugdale, has been working with the Broadway production of the Miracle Worker. The production has done a nice job of featuring Dugdale and his images. The Miracle Worker has put on the web  The Photography of John Dugdale with a video interview (reposted below) and a short bio: “John Dugdale...

F-Stop Beyond with Alex de Jong

F-Stop Beyond with Alex de Jong

The F-Stop Beyond podcast recently interviewed Alex de Jong, a blind photographer and integral member of the Blind Photographers community. F-Stop Beyond is “the show that started it all. There are already so many podcasts about photography that cover f-stops and Photoshop, business and branding, but host Ron Dawson couldn’t find any that really...

Sensory Photography: Exhibit and Slideshow

Sensory Photography: Exhibit and Slideshow

There is a new photography exhibit opening this week displaying works by blind and visually impaired photographers. The show, Sights Unseen, runs from 19 – 23 January at The Association of Photographers Gallery in London. The BBC News has produced an audio slideshow with images from the exhibit and discussion by the photographers and...

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tim in print | Parent-Child B-Ball Challenge

Last weekend, the Chapel Hill News sent me to shoot a local family ...

Through a lens darkly

My local paper, theChapel Hill News, ran a very nicely done story, Through...

slideshow | Summer Softball Champtionship

As I wrote in tim in print | Summer Softball Championship, I had...

tim in print | All Wired Up

Wired.com interviewed me for an article running now:  Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to...


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