Posts Tagged ‘ access ’

Bloggers come in all shepes, sizes and abilities. For the visually impeired and blind, blogs and blogging present unique challenges. To meet and discuss these issues, there is a online group of these bloggers. Visit Blind Bloggers to find out more. Blind Bloggers is a quiet, but very helpfrul, group of bloggers. Member range...
Read More »

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...
Read More »

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,...
Read More »

I downloaded the beta version of the next iteration of Google’s Chrome browser. The big accessibility improvement is the switch from text zoom to full page zoom. From the Zoom – Google Chrome Help page. If you’re using Google Chrome Beta, try out the new full-page zoom functionality. Go to the Page menu and...
Read More »

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...
Read More »

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...
Read More »

Each month the Assistive Technology Blog Carnival presents a a series of themed posts on assistive tech. This month’s issue, the February 2009 Edition of AT Blog Carnival, features Perfect Pairings of Assistive Technology Tools. Welcome to The AT Blog Carnival for February is “Perfect Pairings”, highlighting combinations of assistive technology that work together....
Read More »

My iPhone Access project has a new front door. With this blog, it is not easy to collect related posts onto one page (at least not that I have found). I am in the middle of an ongoing series of posts on the accessibility of the iPhone platform, but there is no one decent...
Read More »

Learning about the iPhone and its apps is easy. Besides the Apple site and the iTunes store, there are many dedicated blogs and web sites. Interesting iPhone news makes it onto general tech and news sites. But there is little about the iPhone’s accessibility to the blind and visually impaired. Apple offers its view...
Read More »