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I read a lot. I always have. But as my eyesight has deteriorated, I have had to find alternative ways to get my fix. Audiobooks have been key, mostly bought from Audible.com in recent years. Lately, smartphones and dedicated e-book readers have begun to offer an accessible alternative. There is still a big trade-off...
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Planet Accessibility brings together “blog feeds from the contributors of accessibility through technology“. In short, Planet Accessibility an RSS feed aggregator collecting the posts of bloggers and sites submitted by their owners. While feed submissions must be approved by the Planet Accessibility team, there are no hard and fast rules for eligibility with one...
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Today I started a series  of guest posts on the iPhone Diaspora. id has reposted Accessing the iPhone: How Apple could make the iPhone more accessible. Tim O’Brian is a guest columnist on id. Legally blind, Tim blogs about accessibility, photography and occasionally both together. You can find out more about Tim on his...
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“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...
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Last week’s tech section reviews the state of e-book readers in A Walk Through a Crop of Electronic Readers. THE release this week of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has put electronic book readers in the spotlight. Its proponents celebrate the ability to store thousands of titles on a single lightweight device; the access to newspapers,...
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Spotted on Slashdot | Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man Sight: “A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye. Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London’s Moorfield’s eye hospital. He says he can now follow...
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While I really like WordPress as a blogging platform, its color scheme makes it difficult for me to manage my blog. Generally, use the Accessibar plug-in for Firefox to reset the colors, but manually redoing this each time I access my blogs is more than tiresome. There is a plugin, Easy Admin Color Schemes,...
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Spotted today on Slashdot, Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. “The Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping last week, but Amazon surprised everyone late on March 3rd by placing the Amazon Kindle software for the iPhone in the Apple App Store. With the Whispersync technology you can now keep your Kindle and iPhone ebooks in...
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An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos at Amazon Does Amazon have a Chief Accessibility Officer? Someone who oversees accessibility issues across the company? It does not seem so. With Amazon at the heart of both online shopping and digital books (audio and e-books), you need a strong corporate position on accessibility. Not only is...
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Earlier today, I reviewed several ways to access Twitter on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone. I compared the TwitterFon and Twitteriffic apps with Twitter’s mobile web site. How accessible is Twitter on the iPhone? Besides receiving tweets as expensive text messages, there are multiple iPhone apps that access your Twitter stream as...
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Twitter calls itself a a microbloogging service. What the heck is a microblog? Basically, it is a mix of blogging, text messaging and emailing. The New York Times’ David Pogue offere his take on Twitter in Twitter? It’s What You Make It. Pogue is right. Twitter is in the eye of the beholder, so...
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A peeition to Make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible has been started. We, the undersigned, ask Amazon Technologies, Inc., and its affiliates, to modify the new Kindle 2, and add the ability to have all menu choices spoken with voice prompts, so that all blind and sighted individuals may purchase, and make full use...
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As seen on Slashdot, New Netbook Offers Detachable Tablet, Engadget is reporting on a new product. The Touch Book from Always Innovating harbors removable tablet, netbook pricepoint. It’s not every day we see an all-new angle on the laptop form factor, much less a netbook with aims at innovation. Perhaps it should come as...
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On every digital device, some piece of the screen is almost always lost to toolbars. Windows has its Task Bar. Each individual software has its title bar up top, usually following by the main menu bar. The iPhone’s browser has the same issues. As you can see on the right, a portion of the...
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All Access Blogging has some great tips on How To Make Your Blog Accessible. No one wakes up in the morning and says “Hmm, how can I make sure that people who are blind can’t read my blog?” However, some of our choices can create barriers for people who want to read what we...
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