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		<title>The iPad &amp; the Ultimate Low Vision Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the iPad the ultimate accessible electronic accessory? Of course not, but it has some serious potential. Right away, iPad 1.0 already wins the accessible tech toy race hands down. With a few small changes, next year&#8217;s iPad 2.0 could begin to render many low vision aids obsolete.
Out of the gate, the iPad is sleek, light and simple with a large, color screen. Apple appears to have left all the accessibility features of the iPhone in the iPad operating system, as has been documented elsewhere (see Accessibility  and  the iPad: First Impressions and Hey Apple, What  About iPad’s  Accessibility?). So the iPad starts out with full zoom, high-contrast mode and VoiceOver. But what more could it offer visually-impaired users?
With its large LCD, Apple could raise the maximum zoom and font sizes. The iPhone has limits on how far it&#8217;s pinch zoom will go. The &#8216;Giant&#8217; font size on the iPhone does not live up to it&#8217;s name. Readers have commented on earlier posts with similar concerns on iPhone app font sizes. Apple has a chance to improve readability here with no cost to users or to themselves.
iBooks looks beautiful, so the iPad will be a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Login</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>WriteRoom: Accessible Writing App</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new favorite app for writing emails and other documents on my  Touch is WriteRoom. It it both accessible and versatile, though it is not free. Despite the rather hefty price tag at $4.99, it is well worth it.
For me, accessibility is key and WriteRoom wins hands down here. Not only does it offer a widescreen mode, but a reverse pinch (the zoom gesture) takes the app to full screen mode, adding viable scree real estate. WriteRoom offers an inverse color scheme (shown in the screen shot below) with scalable fonts. My only gripe here is that the maximum font size ought to be larger.
On top of accessibility, the app has both simplicity and versatility on it&#8217;s side. The interface is clean and intuitive. Documents can be backed up and accesses online ( and by a program on Mac computers).  Files can also be sent to directly to the Mail app (a fairly standard feature). My only gripe here is that the name of the app is inserted into the subject line automatically.
My gripes are quite minor in the face of WriteRoom simplicity, accessibility and versatility. If you write many emails or other documents on your iPhone or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the Blind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired&#8217;s Insights exhibit was featured recently in the New York Times. &#8220;‘Insights’  Showcases Blind and Visually Impaired Artists&#8221; gives an nice overview of the exhibit and it artists.
Now in its 20th year, “Insights” is the country’s pre-eminent selected exhibition of paintings, photographs and mixed-media pieces by legally blind artists. What began as an event focused on works of purely tactile interest — just 13 the first year — has evolved into a show of some 120 pieces where the emphasis is on the visual, and on an interpretation of it more in line with the one Ms. Kitazawa had in mind.
Featuring all genres of art, Insights puts serious though into what the exhibit really means, for art and for the blind.
“The exhibition is framed to be about limits and what can be done within  them,” said Lawrence Rinder, the director of the Berkeley Art Museum,  who was a juror for “Insights” this year.  That thematic framing, he  added, locates the show’s blind artists very much in the tradition of  artists in general. “We all have limits of perception, and all artists  work within that envelope.”
Accompanying the article, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abercrombie on the First Law Audiobooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged before about how much I enjoyed Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s books and about my quest to have them released as audio books (See Best Served Cold (&#38;   Audible), The First Law Series Going Audible and Best Served Audible). Abercrombie reports today on his blog in &#8220;First   Law Audiobooks&#8221; that his debut series is being recorded.
So they&#8217;re currently recording the audiobooks of the First Law, due out in June as downloads, and I dropped into the studio on Monday to see how it was going. They&#8217;re unabridged, so it&#38;apos;s taking them sixteen full days of recording, and when I got there they were just starting on Before They Are Hanged.
Abercrombie goes on to talk about how he felt about his visit to the studio during the recordings. Apparently, studios and narrators do not consult with the author over pronunciation and character voices. I am very surprised.  Authors are regularly consulted over film adaptations, so why not for audio editions? Either way, Abercrombie was pleased with the progress. I look forward to listening to them!
Read more in First   Law Audiobooks.
If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An iPad Camera?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blind Photographers has written already about iPhone photography ins Shooting the iPhone 3GS. What will the iPad bring to the table? Nothing yet, as the tablet, like its older sibling, the iPod Touch, lacks a camera.  However, hope is not lost. PCWorld reports that they are  Sleuthing  for an iPad Camera.
&#8220;General consensus is that there will be a camera in the iPad, but not in the first generation—a camera would be a great feature to roll out in version two, giving more people a reason to buy after all the early-adopters get theirs. Though that’s still just speculation, the iPad appears to be fully camera-ready even now, and there might even be time left for another announcement from The Steve.&#8221;
Assuming that these rumors pan out, what will this mean for blind and visually impaired photographers? Simply put, the iPad will offer the single largest LCD for composing and reviewing shots available in digital photography. I struggle with my Nikon&#8217;s LCD to review and can barely see through the tiny viewfinder to compose shots. Until I upload images into Lightroom, much of my photography is little more than educated guesswork. An iPad-mounted camera opens up a world of opportunity for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPad &amp; the Advent of Accessible Photography Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s new iPad has had me doing some thinking about its potential impact fro the visually impaired, particularly for blind photographers. Reading an article today (thanks, Dad) about a new e-book reader software, Blio, soon to be put out by a company run by Ray Kurzweil, prompted me to consider a new issue, accessible photography books (and magazines). I rarely read books about photography. The font is universally too small, the books too heavy and there are no audio editions. The iPad has the possibility of changing this.
Blio is supposedly designed to enrich the e-reading experience with audio, video and web content. On a device like the iPad, with its large, high-resolution color screen, we could see the release of more photography-related media. With text-to-speech, we could even see the advent of accessible photography books and magazines.I can imagine looking at full-screen images while listening to the accompanying text. Not only would this a be a great format for re-releasing books by the masters, but this would also be a great format for every photographer with a story to tell. Scott Bourne has already expounded about the iPad’s potential as a  digital portolio. On his Photofocus blog post, What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 InSights Art Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Printing House for the Blind has announced their Nineteenth Annual Juried Art Competition and Exhibition for Artists Who  Are Visually Impaired or Blind. The exhibition, APH InSights 2010: Visions From the Mind, requires entries be submitted by April 1, 2010, for preschool through high school and April 15, 2010, for adults.
Make Your Dreams Come True! Enter APH InSights 2010! The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) invites visually impaired and blind artists of all ages to submit artwork to APH InSights 2010! This art competition and exhibition is exclusively for blind artists and draws entries from across the U.S. and around the world.
See APH Museum:   Enter the InSights Art Competition for rules and forms.
If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Enter the APH InSights Art CompetitionInsights 2009 Call For ArtistsFYI: Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 Call for EntriesLighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the BlindA Talk about Dark Light: Discussing Blind Phtography]]></description>
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		<title>A Talk about Dark Light: Discussing Blind Phtography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I posted about A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of  Blind Photographers. Well, that conversation has taken place. The Annenberg Space for Photography&#8217;s blog reports about how &#8220;Bruce Hall and Corinne Marinnan open our eyes to Blind Photography!&#8220;.
The subject of the evening was a short film directed by our own Neil Leifer, co-produced by Neil and Corinne, and  featuring Bruce  Hall along with two other blind photographers (Pete Eckert and Henry Butler)  called "Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers."
The blog has a great series of photos from the event. There are tons of good links as well. Bruce Hall is one of the photographers feature in Dark Light. Connie, who is also visually impaired, is a writer and producer for television. You can learn more about the documentary on its Facebook page: Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. &#8220;The Annenberg Space for Photography is an entirely new cultural  destination dedicated to exhibiting both digital and print photography  in an intimate environment.&#8221; Bruce Hall is a well known blind photographer.
If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:A Conversation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blio, A Better e-Reader?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on CNET, Ray  Kurzweil tries to build a better e-reader.
His latest project, Blio, is an  effort to improve the emerging electronic book field with software that  turns e-books into more than just a digital copy of the print edition.  Blio, which is due out next month, is software that combines a  full-color digital book with the ability to add Web content, video, and  professionally narrated audiobooks.
I like the idea of integrating audiobooks with e-books. So does my wife. Occassionally we will listen to audiobooks together, but she will also but the Kindle edition to read along. I have not tried this yet, but I have not found a great e-book reader yet. Holding my iPod Touch up to my face (as I need to get very close) for long periods of time is less than enticing. I can image running Blio, which would allow this, on a new iPad with a very large font size and relazing when reading and listening.
Blio will offer text-t0-speech, but that has run into trouble with publishers on the new Kindle. Audible.com, a major online audio book distributor, ought to get involved. It would make for a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lancaster&#8217;s Blind Photographer Has an Eye for Business</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/02/lancasters-blind-photographer-has-an-eye-for-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Twitter, Pennsylvania&#8217;s Lancaster Chamber of Commerce &#38; 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 degenerative eye condition. The online story is in Adobe Flash, so I can not speak for its accessibility. However, they have a interesting feature that mimics tunnel vision so readers can get a feeling for Wilkerson&#8217;s sight.
If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Braving the Sight Unseen: Interviewed by Black Star Risingtim in print &#124; All Wired UpAccessing the Eyechart AppF-Stop Beyond with Alex de JongTIME Magazine Photo Essay &#8211; Photos by Blind Photographers]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible iTunes: A Truly Large Font</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Despite Apple&#8217;s leading efforts in accessibility technology, I have always found iTunes extremely hard to use. Apple&#8217;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 on large font sizes, high contrast color schemes and zooming. iTunes is just as beautiful as all of Apple&#8217;s software. It has a lovely color scheme and its layout is aesthetically pleasing. The program is very resistant to large fonts and alternate color schemes. Until today, I have had to rely on zooming, squinting and my low vision aids to navigate my songs and playlists. Now, I have found a hack to fix the problem.
Buried in a comment on a earlier post, I found a link to Teridon&#8217;s  Resource file hacks for iTunes for Windows. This unhappily named site offers a free bit of software, the iTunes  Font Size Editor, that does one and only one thing. It allows you to customize the font size of the song list in iTunes.
Teridon puts it this way: &#8220;iTunes gives you two font sizes: &#8220;small&#8221; (which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 a documentary short &#8220;featuring Henry Butler, Pete Eckert &#38; Bruce  Hall and is directed by Neil Leifer. Corinne Marrinan is one of the film&#8217;s producers.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Light-The-Art-of-Blind-Photographers/119067247565?v=wall
If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:A Talk about Dark Light: Discussing Blind Phtographyblind photographersFlickr: Blind PhotographersBraving the Sight Unseen: Interviewed by Black Star RisingTIME Magazine Photo Essay &#8211; Photos by Blind Photographers]]></description>
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		<title>tim in print &#124; Parent-Child B-Ball Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, the Chapel Hill News sent me to shoot a local family  event. Carrboro Parks &#38; Rec organizes an annual parent-child  basketball skills contest. This year&#8217;s event took place last Saturday at  a local middle school. The gum was a bit dark, but I brought some  flashes and took my time. I stayed for about two and a half hours,  giving me time to set up some acceptable light.
The paper printed three of the photos with the article, chapelhillnews.com  &#124; Parent-Child Challenge. The first image (top right here) relies on my off-camera flash on a stand to camera left, either via optical slave or by the wireless trigger. I spotted the second (on left) far from the light stand, so tried different variations with an without my on-board SB-400. The flash does not work well from a distance, so I think this was with a very slow shutter speed and a prayer for a steady hand. The last (lower right here) away from the light stand, but there was better light near the entryway to the gym.
I used different commendations of an-board SB-400 Nd my Vivitar on a  stand. The best light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Apple Tablet May Mean to Blind Photographers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I followed today&#8217;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 Touch has not been a big aid photographically, but the iPad really could take that step.
The photography blogger. Scott Bourne, has already expounded about the iPad&#8217;s potential as a digital portolio. Via What  the Apple Tablet Will Mean to Photographers « Photofocus, &#8220;(t)he portable portfolio will get an amazing jump-start because of the new  tablet, and all the competition that follows it.&#8221; As a visually impaired photographer, I see a different possibility. One of my biggest difficulties using a camera is its tiny LCD screen. I can not use it for instant feedback. I can not review images as I make them. Waiting until I can upload the photos to my computer (and its large monitor)  is both tedious and burdensome. At a minimum, the iPad would make a great device for quick, if not quite immediate, feedback. Withe the large, high-resolution screen, the [...]]]></description>
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