There are some good organizations and bloggers on Twitter. I have an abridged, disorganized and incomplete list. I am biased towards vision related ones, but I think I have most of the good feeds here: fightblindness / F Fighting Blindness blindperspectiv / Alena Roberts BlindPhotogs / Blind Photographers lionsclubsorg...
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An Open Letter to Steve Jobs and the iPhone Development Team Over the last few months, I have dedicated much of my time and blog to thoughts and reviews of the accessibility of the iPhone platform for the visually impaired. Since I am partially sighted with some functional vision, I have been focused on simple,...
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Following up on my rant against the Blount Op-Ed piece, the AFB has a well-written (much better than mine) blog post on the same issue: Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility – AFB’s Blog. While the Kindle offers text-to-speech options, it doesn’t include talking menus or fully accessible...
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As seen on the Talking Books Librarian, the American Foundation for the Blind’ is conducting a Survey on Small Screen Visual Displays at http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?Mode=Survey&SurveyID=101. Taken from the website: AFB TECH, the technology arm of the American Foundation for the Blind, is currently working to establish standards to improve the readability of small screen visual displays, and...
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The American Foundation for the Blind is doing a Survey on Social Networking Sites . They are looking at MySpace, Facebook, Twiter, etc. This month AccessWorld asks about social networking sites. We want to find out whether you use them and how accessible you think they are. Personally, I find myself using Twitter as that is...
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Most of the ways people find this blog is through web searches. One of the most popular search terms that bring visitors here is “high contrast cell phones” that directs them to this post. Surprisingly, to me anyway, this is the first entry that Google lists for this search term. However, my post is...
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The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has instructions on ‘How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers‘. I have wondered how accessible this blog is. I can access it quite easily since I have tweaked IE to make almost any page readable. Bur I do not know how others see it. I...
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