Feed My Inbox: Follow Blogs and Forums Easily and Accessibly

“Feed My Inbox is a very simple service that attempts to bridge the gap between feeds (RSS, XML, Atom) and email.” Once you tell Feed My Inbox to keep you up to date on a particular web site or blog, Feed My Inbox will email you each day if there is new content on that site. It is that simple. You can unsubscribe any time from a particular feed. Just click on the unsubscribe link in the daily update.

Feed My Inbox Screen Shot

It’s As Easy As That

A good question is: How Does this Work? It must either cost money or be complicated to sign up and then get updates. No, on both counts. There is not registration process whatsoever. It is free. And you subscribe to updates in three easy steps. From the Feed My Inbox web site:

Step 1

Find the site you would like to track, such as a blog, a news site, twitter feed, or even craigslist search results. Most browsers will display whether there is a feed on the page or not. Look for the orange/white or blue/white icons on the right side of your browser:

RSS Feed Image Examples

Step 2

Once you find a feed you would like to subscribe to, simply type in the web address (URL) for the site on FeedMyInbox.com. We will find the feed(s) available on the page, and you can select what you want to subscribe to.

Step 3

Once you subscribe to a feed, we will send an email to the address you specified. Simply click the link that is enclosed to confirm that your email address is correct, and you are all set!

It is as easy as that. Signing up for updates from tim o’brien photos simply involves going to Feed My Inbox, entering www.timobrienphotos.com and your email and clicking on the subscribe button. It really is that easy. Go ahead and try it out now.

So It Is Easy. Why Is It Accessible?

It is generally a pain to learn new software. This is particularly true for the blind. Each new program has to to be checked for accessibility, etc. With Feed My Inbox, there is no new software to learn. Once thorough the simple subscription process, the rest is handled in via email. Since email is such a necessity, everyone is comfortable with their email set up. Voila! Accessible updates.

Feed My Inbox Email Screen Shot

As you can see from this screen shot, the emails from Feed My Inbox are quite accessible. There is not clutter or confusing structure to the email. Th odd color scheme is, by the way, is not from Feed My Inbox. I use the Accessibar add-on for Firefox to change the color scheme to something I find easier to read.

PS or you can just fill in your address in the form below . . .

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