Archive for December, 2008

As part of Project BlindSighted on Blind Photographers, I have posted my enty on my photographic process. Hopefully this will prompt a discussion that will help me develop and improve how I shoot. I am re-posting it here: Project BlindSighted: tim o’brien I am no where near as organized or experienced as Lodro or...
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Perusing the NYTimes recently, I ran across an article, Tag That Image, on visual bookmarking services. From the Times: “Vi.sualize.us features more variety than the other sites: anything from T-shirt designs to artsy studio shots and illustrations are likely to pop up. Since the site began in September 2007, the community has expanded to...
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We have begun a project, Seeing My Images, on our flickr group, to address, as a community, this issue of how blind photographers make their images. It is not as easy a question to answer as one might think. We are all unique in the way we use our camera. We vary in our...
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Yesterday, I posted about the new design for a tactile interface for the iPhone. While getting my thoughts together to write the post, I read and responded to the comments on Yanko Design article where I first read about this iPhone case. Some of the comments were, in my opinion, insensitive on the issue...
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A few months ago, at the behest of another legally blind blogger, I set up a Google Group for bloggers who are, you guessed it!, blind and visually impaired (or are just interested in accessibility in blogging). Blind Bloggers is still a small group, with just forty four members. From the description: A space...
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A few days ago, I bumped into what I thought might be an implementation of my accessibility switch idea. This accessibility switch would be a single icon that would turn or off a list of pre-configured accessibility settings. If you ever visit a new computer or need to share yours, you know how changing...
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Not long ago, I heard about and joined this UK-based website, DAB Photography Online – Bringing Disabled and Able-Bodied Photographers Together. I have spent some time over the last week learning to navigate the site and to post to it. At first, I though it might replicate much of what Flickr does for me....
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Twitter directed me to a post on Yanko Design which led me to this neat discovery, an accessible tactile case for the iPhone and iPod Touch. From the designer: invisual – a tactile Silicone case for the Apple iPhone 13 November, 2008 used with an app store application, designed in mind, for the Blind...
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The State of Things, the lunchtime local show on our local public radio, station, WUNC, choose this image of last week’s inaugural men’s basketball game between East Chapel Hill High and Carrboro High as their Listener Submitted Picture of the Week. I have has the honor twice before, Hillsborough Handmade Parade: Blue Heron and...
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A Twitter post directed me to this blog note from Fred’s Head:Braille and Large Print Beverage Brochures at Starbucks. Did you know that there are over 87,000 beverage combinations at Starbucks? To help you order, Starbucks has made their popular brochure, “Make It Your Drink,” available in both Braille and Large Print. Ask your...
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A few weeks back, on November 1oth, the State of Things, the lunchtime local show on our local public radio, station, WUNC, choose this image at a local disc golf tournament as their Listener Submitted Picture of the Week. On November 8th, I shot the Carolina Disc Golf Club‘s Saturday Doubles tournament at UNC’s...
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