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		<title>A11y Tweeps: Accessibility Twitter Feeds</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/a11y-tweeps-accessibility-twitter-feeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 13:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 / Lions Clubs visionaware / VisionAWARE DurateqATV / Durateq Assistive attipscast / Chris Bugaj atmacjournal / Ricky Buchanan GlendaWH / Glenda Watson Hyatt AccessibleTwitr becka11y / Becky Gibson assistivetek / Brian S. Friedlander stcaccess / STC AccessAbilitySIG talkingbooks / Talking Books AFB1921 / AFB NFBMA / NFB of Massachusetts AccessForAll / Angela Hooker a11y DisabilityNow / Disability Now accessify Maccessibility / Mac-cessibility Site CarrollCenter DisabilityNat_ AbilityNet MicrsftTech4All dabphotography fredshead steveofmaine / Steve Sawczyn blindbargains / BlindBargains.com Who did I mess? If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:contact timguest blogger on the iPhone DiasporaMy iPod WishlistNnm8 Me 4 #Ally Awrd!Tim on Twitter]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Accessibility: An Open Letter to Steve Jobs &amp; Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, easily-implementable features that would improve the iPhone&#8217;s ease of use for users with less than perfect vision rather than for the profoundly blind. Building on the multitouch zoom, landscape mode and the iPhone&#8217;s good color screen, I have set out some guidelines for iPhone developers. Additionally, I have begun a series of app reviews based on an accessibility perspective. I now have a single web page bringing together all of these posts: http://www.timobrienphotos.com/large-print-ideas/iphone-accessiphone-access/. I know that you have had some contact with the American Federation of the Blind on making the iPhone more accessible. I do not know the outcome of these discussions, but I know the AFB&#8217;s focus on providing universal accessibility. I am not addressing that here. Rather, I am focusing on access for the visually impaired more than for the more profoundly blind. With the aging of the baby boomers and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB&#8217;s Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; AFB&#8217;s Blog. While the Kindle offers text-to-speech options, it doesn&#8217;t include talking menus or fully accessible controls, which makes it impossible for people with vision loss to use independently. The good news is that it&#8217;s an easy fix for Amazon since the Kindle 2 is already voice enabled. AFB, and other blindness organizations, are urging Amazon to address this immediately. With baby boomers aging and the number of people experiencing vision loss expected to increase significantly, more and more people will need technology like the Kindle to have talking menus and full speech capability. Not only is the post worth reading, but there is a link to a petiion asking Amazon to extend the Kindle&#8217;s acessibility features. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Bookshelf AccessBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageBlog AccessibiltyKindle&#8217;s Crystal Ball: Accessible NavigationAccessibility @ Amazon: The Kindle, Audible.com &#038; a Chief Accessibility Officer]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Short Survey on Small Screen Displays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As seen on the Talking Books Librarian, the American Foundation for the Blind&#8217; is conducting a Survey on Small Screen Visual Displays at http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?Mode=Survey&#38;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 we want input from AccessWorld readers. Specifically, we are referring to small visual electronic displays found in products like cell phones, blood glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, alarm clocks, calculators, home appliances, and office equipment. We would like to ask our AccessWorld readers with low vision the following questions, to find out about your experiences using products with small screen displays. Small screens do not have to be inaccessible and hard to read. They also do not need to be redigned entirely from scratch to be improved despite the fact that retooling a poor design for access is not as effective as building in access from the start. Too many small screen use uneccasrily small fonts, have low contrast color schemes and lots of unused blacnk space. The Trader Joe&#8217;s card swipe machine using a blue and grey color scheme that offers nearly no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFB Survery &#8211; Is Social Networking Accessible?</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/afb-survery-is-social-networking-accessible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 most accessible to me. Facebook is much too cluttered and I have not explored others fully. These folks do good work, so please take a moment and fill it out. It&#8217;s short. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Take a Short Survey on Small Screen DisplaysBlog AccessibiltyKindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB&#8217;s BlogAFB&#8217;s Jitterbug ReviewEasy Reading with Audible.com]]></description>
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		<title>AFB&#8217;s Jitterbug Review</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/08/afbs-jitterbug-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the ways people find this blog is through web searches. One of the most popular search terms that bring visitors here is &#8220;high contrast cell phones&#8221; 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 mostly a gripe about the lack of accessible cell phones. The only phone that seems to fit my criteria (accessible to those with low but functional vision) is the Jitterbug. I do not have one, so I can not review it. However the AFB has a good review, with images, here: An Accessible Phone Comes Calling: A Review of the Jitterbug Cell Phone &#8211; AccessWorldÂ® &#8211; March 2007. So take a look at let me know what you think. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:High-contrast Cell PhonesNew Mobile Accessibility Web SiteA Site for Sore Ears: A Review and Tour of Audible.Com &#8211; AccessWorld &#8211; March 2005Take a Short Survey on Small Screen DisplaysSave Energy, Save Eyestrain &#8211; Try a Different Color Scheme]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Accessibilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2005 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has instructions on &#8216;How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers&#8216;. 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 looked through the AFB&#8217;s tips and have followed those that I could understand, but I didn&#8217;t write the template for this blog and I don&#8217;t know enough html to adjust the template according to the tips. Hopefully,, I have done a reasonable job, but it would be nice to know how to check simply and easily how accessible one&#8217;s blog is. Any ideas? If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:AFB Survery &#8211; Is Social Networking Accessible?Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB&#8217;s BlogHow To Make Your Blog Accessible &#8211; Tips from All Access BloggingTake a Short Survey on Small Screen DisplaysAFB&#8217;s Jitterbug Review]]></description>
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