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Have you ever had trouble reading some text on your computer? I have. Here are the ideas and solutions that I have found to make the computer screen a little easier on the eyes.

Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 3 Tips for Making Your Hyperlinks More Usable

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April 22, 2009

From Glenda Watson Hyatt’s Do It Myself Blog, here are 3 Tips for Making Your Hyperlinks More Usable. How many times do you skim an online article or blog post, looking for interesting or relevant links? Individuals with sight impairments using screen readers (software that reads aloud text on the computer monitor) can have...
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Possible Treatment for Macular Degeneration

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April 21, 2009
Possible Treatment for Macular Degeneration

Spotted on Slashdot, Stem Cell Treatment To Cure the Most Common Cause of Blindness. Specifically, this treatment, if it passes the trials, should be a cure for AMD, age related macualr degeneration. As I have a form or juvenile macular degeneration, I have high hoped for some broader applicability. The Times Online reports that...
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iPhone May Feature Voice Control and Feedback

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April 21, 2009

As spotted on MacWord’s iPhone Central, Ars Technica is reporting that iPhone OS 3.0 to feature voice control and feedback. Various voice-related features, under the codename “Jibbler,” have been discovered in the version of SpringBoard set to ship with the next update to Apple’s mobile operating system. …. Not much information is known at...
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Accessing Google Talk on the iPhone

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April 20, 2009
Accessing Google Talk on the iPhone

Google’s iPhone app brings most of Google’s many applications under one roof. It refers most features to that application’s mobile web site. Google Talk is one of these applications. Since my wife and I are one of those couples that instant message each from one room to the other, I wanted to test this...
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All Access Blogging: Tips for Your Blog

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April 17, 2009

All Access Blogging has some great Tips for Your Blog. All Access Blogging focuses on making the blogosphere accessible, a goal close to my heart as well. Tips include: Fix Your Feed Icon What’s In Your Blog’s Title Bar? Text and Background Colors On Your Blog Can Help or Hurt Your Readers Blog Quizzes:...
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Feeds on the Go: Accessing Google Reader on the iPhone

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April 15, 2009
Feeds on the Go: Accessing Google Reader on the iPhone

To keep track of all the blogs I like to follow, I use Google Reader. It has a nice clean interface and works in any browser from anywhere. So, I naturally wanted to check this out for the iPhone. Like most of Google’s online applications, access to Google Reader is through its mobile web...
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iTunes: Easy on the Ears, Hard on the Eyes

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April 13, 2009
iTunes: Easy on the Ears, Hard on the Eyes

Apple has worked hard to make progress towards giving blind people access to the iPod system. The big move for Apple is the 4th generation iPod nano, which offers spoken menus and large font with high contrast screen and backlight. Unfortunately for me, this came out just before my last iPod upgrade. Apple paired...
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Expensive Access for the iPhone

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April 10, 2009
Expensive Access for the iPhone

Carl Zeiss’ video headset, the Cinemizer Plus, has received the go-ahead from Apple for release as an iPhone accessory. This could be the most expensive accessible accessory for the iPhone yet (or ever). According to the web site, the Cinemizer Plus’ “image is optically tuned to appear as virtual 45-inch (diagonal) screen, as viewed...
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Accessing the iPhone Calendar

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April 9, 2009
Accessing the iPhone Calendar

The iPhone’s built-in Calendar App is one of the more important features for a smart phone. Unfortunately, this program is very inaccessible. There are four accessibility features I look for in iPhone apps; zoom, landscape mode, adjustable color scheme, and adjustable font sizes. Calendar has none of these. As you can see in the...
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The Demise of CAPTCHA

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April 9, 2009

Today on Slashdot, Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed. Though CAPTCHA’s alleged doom is due to its technical limitations rather than its accessibility problems, the sooner its demise, the better. TechnoBabble Pro writes “The CAPTCHA idea sounds simple: prevent bots from massively abusing a website (e.g. to get many email or social network accounts,...
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No Screen Reader? No Problem! Go WebAnywhere.

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April 7, 2009

Thanks to lodroridgzin, I ran acroos a web-based screen reader, WebAnywhere. WebAnywhere is a non-visual interface to the web that requires no new software to be downloaded or installed. It works right in the browser, which means you can access it from any computer, even locked-down public computer terminals. WebAnywhere enables you to interact...
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Reading Rights to Protest at the Author’s Guild Today

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April 7, 2009

The Reading Rights coalition is organizing a protest today against the restrictions on the new Kindle’s text-to-speech feature. At noon in NYC, you can watch the event online. Please support us by joining our informational picket in front of the Authors Guild’s headquarters at 31 East 32nd Street in downtown Manhattan on April 7,...
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Tweetie Access on the iPhone

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April 6, 2009
Tweetie Access on the iPhone

Following my earlier review of free Twitter apps on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone, a reader suggested I check out his favorite Twitter app, Tweetie. Tweetie is a feature-rich Twitter app that has added a couple of valuable accessibility features in its latest release, making Tweetie worth the $2.99 price tag. If...
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Go Full Screem

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April 6, 2009
Go Full Screem

The first step to making a computer more accessible is to make everything on the screen bigger. This involves tricks like lowering the rsolution, zooming and using large fonts. These adjustments definitely increase readability and overall usability. There is a cost. Screen real estate becomes more valuable. Even larger monitors experience this problem. I...
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Accessing the iPhone App Store

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April 5, 2009
Accessing the iPhone App Store

One of the most frustrating apps on the iPhone, from a readability point of view, is the App Store itself. Like it iTunes counterpart, the store uses unnecessarily tiny font.There is no workaround. You can’t zoom. You can’t go landscape. There is no font setting. You can’t even go to the mobile web site...
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