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		<title>The iPad &amp; the Ultimate Low Vision Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/03/ipad-low-vision-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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 player [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPad &amp; the Advent of Accessible Photography Books</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/02/ipad-photo-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>Accessible iTunes: A Truly Large Font</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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 8pt) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Apple Tablet May Mean to Blind Photographers</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/01/ipad/</link>
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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 iPad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New iPhone 3G S, More Accessibility</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/06/iphone-3gs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Apple has been listening. I have blogged much over the past six months on the iPhone&#8217;s missing accessibility features; more zoom, more color contrast and more voice. Today, Apply announced the next iteration of the iPhone, the 3G S, and it has taken a giant step in the right direction. Apple introduces these features on its iPhone 3G S Accessibility page. iPhone 3G S offers accessibility features to assist users who are visually or hearing impaired. These features include the VoiceOver screen reader, a Zoom feature, White on Black display options, Mono Audio, and more. Learn more about accessibility The main new accessibility feature is the implementation of Apple&#8217;s signature screen reader, Voiceover, to the iPhone. Without having tested it myself, this seems like a pretty good implementation. In addition to Voice Control, iPhone 3G S features VoiceOver, the world’s first gesture-based screen reader. Instead of memorizing keyboard commands or pressing tiny arrow keys, you simply touch the screen to hear a description of the item under your finger, then double-tap, drag, or flick to control iPhone. VoiceOver speaks 21 languages and works with all of the applications built into iPhone 3G S. Just as importantly for me are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Tip: If Found Apps</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/iphone-tip-if-found-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I posted a tip about adding IDs to the iPhone wallpaper. This tip involved adding your contact info manually using an image editing software on your desktop. Too tricky for most, including me. Fortunately, it turns out that ther is an easier way to do this. There are to similar apps, with sacly similar names, that will add your contact info to images directly on your iPhone. If Found, Please&#8230; If Found, Please&#8230; is a cool little free app. From the developers at Polka: Create a message and contact information on your own personal wallpaper in case your phone is lost. Best part is the information is viewable even if the phone is locked. Hopefully the nice person that finds it will contact you and arrange its safe return! The app puts a little text box and an exclamation mark at the bottom of the image you would like to be your iPhone wallpaper. Once saved, you hop over to the Photo library and set the new image as your wallpaper. If Found If Found is quite similar. From the developers at mobilityware: If Found is an application that lets you store your contact information on your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone May Feature Voice Control and Feedback</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/iphone-may-feature-voice-control-and-feedback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As spotted on MacWord&#8217;s iPhone Central, Ars Technica is reporting that iPhone OS 3.0 to feature voice control and feedback. Various voice-related features, under the codename &#8220;Jibbler,&#8221; have been discovered in the version of SpringBoard set to ship with the next update to Apple&#8217;s mobile operating system. &#8230;. Not much information is known at this time, but according to our own people familiar with the matter, Jibbler appears be an enhancement to the iPhone SpringBoard application, the Finder-esque app that acts as a launcher and will support the newly announced 3.0 Spotlight search. Jibbler may be controlled via the iPhone headset—button squeezes could be used to record short voice segments from the user, which Jibbler will then interpret. Voice synthesis can then be used to give the user a response, similar to the latest generation iPod shuffle, which can &#8220;read&#8221; playlists and track names—the difference being that the iPhone hardware itself could handle real-time voice synthesis. This would be a giant leap forward for iPhone accessibility. The only way I can readily navigate my current phone, the Razr, is through its rudimentary audio feedback. The Razr repeats phone numbers as I dial them and has some basic voice commands. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Google Talk on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s iPhone app brings most of Google&#8217;s many applications under one roof. It refers most features to that application&#8217;s mobile web site. Google Talk is one of these applications. Since my wife and I are one of those couples that instant message each from one room to the other, I wanted to test this out on my iPod Touch. As simple as it is to start up a conversation in Google Talk, it is not very easy to use from an accessibility vantage. The one saving grace is that landscape mode is available of mobile web sites. Otherwise, Talk is just too hard to use. The main stumbling block is the tiny font size. Without zoom, there is way to read this Talk&#8217;s minuscule font. Added to the mix is Google&#8217;s signature color scheme. While elgant, it is the mix of blue and white does not offer sufficient contrast. Google Talk is available via the Google Talk mobile web site or through the Google Mobile App for your iPhone, available on the iPhone or in the iTunes App Store. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeds on the Go: Accessing Google Reader on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s online applications, access to Google Reader is through its mobile web site on the iPhone&#8217;s built-in browser. The iPhone browser allows landscape mode for any site, so Google Reader has that accessibility feature. Unfortunately, that is the only accessibility y feature the program has. For some reason, mobile web sites tend to disable the multi-touch zoom that is the iPhone&#8217;s big accessibility advantage. Google Reader also sticks with Google&#8217;s elegant, but low contrast, color scheme. It is useable, but zoom would make it that much better. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing Google Talk on the iPhoneAccessing the iPhone CalendarAccessible e-Reading: Google BooksAccessing the iPhone App StoreAccessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock App]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes: Easy on the Ears, Hard on the Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has worked hard to make progress towards giving blind people access to the iPod system. The big move for Apple is the 4th generation iPod nano, which offers spoken menus and large font with high contrast screen and backlight. Unfortunately for me, this came out just before my last iPod upgrade. Apple paired this with improved accessibility in iTunes. Accessibility in iTunes 8: iTunes 8 is screen-reader friendly. On a Mac using Mac OS X Leopard, it’s compatible with VoiceOver; on a PC using Windows XP or Windows Vista, it’s compatible with GW-Micro Window-Eyes 7.0. Sadly, Apple focused solely on screen reader integration. Since I am not a big screen reader user, this has done nothing for me. iTunes violates afew basic accessibility principles in terms of readability. Most impartiality, it does not offer a large enough font option. iTunes offers two font choices, but both are too small to read easily. The next problem is the elegant, but low contrast color scheme. Lstly, the built in iTunes Store uses even smaller font, as you can see in the screen shot. Unfortunately, there is no easy work around. A magnifying program can be useful. I just keep my reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the iPhone App Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frustrating apps on the iPhone, from a readability point of view, is the App Store itself. Like it iTunes counterpart, the store uses unnecessarily tiny font.There is no workaround. You can&#8217;t zoom. You can&#8217;t go landscape. There is no font setting. You can&#8217;t even go to the mobile web site version of the App Store. It does not exist. So finding apps is hard. Identifying features is hard. Seeing the price is near impossible. I need to get out a dome magnifier and my low vision glassed just to guess at a few words. It is much better, where and when possible, to find good apps using Google. You can then just search for the name and download the app without reading any details. It makes little sense to me. I think that landscape mode is disabled since screen shots are shown in portrait. Still, that is not a good enough reason. I can come up with no rationale for using such a tiny font without zoom. Zoom is one of the iPhone signature features. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Easy Access Mode: An App Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes from a small field posted a neat idea for iPhone accessibility a couple of years back. He proposes an accessibility mode, where the iPhone (or any touch screen device) engages a very simple interface for the disabled. A while ago, I posted about a similar concept for the desktop computer, but that has not achieved any traction either. The basic idea is for a touch screen device, like the iPhone, to support an accessible mode where, instead of the usual graphical buttons and layouts, large areas of the screen are used with a telephone prompt style system to interact with the user. For example, an audio prompt to, “Press the top right of the screen to make a call” and so on. High contrast blocks of colours would make it possible to find the right area with very little vision, and completely blind users could find the edge of the screen by touch, with small modifications to the case if necessary. Numeric input, to enter a phone number for example, could be handled with simple tactile markers arranged around the outside of the screen. Switching to the accessible mode could be as simple as pressing anywhere on the screen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialing by Ear on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred&#8217;s Head blog just posted about Sight-Free Dialing with the iPhone. This caught my attention and brought me to the iHear Dialer app from KayZee Solutions. This is a great new accessibility app for the iPhone. iHear Dialer allows you to dial phone numbers without looking at the keypad. As you move your hand around on the keypad, the dialer will tell you what number your finger is on and when you want that number, just release your finger! It was created with blind and visually impaired users in mind, but it’s also great for anyone to dial a number without looking. It attempts to increase the accessibility of the iPhone. iHear Dialer not only allows users to dial phone numbers without looking at the keypad, but has several other good features. There are two voices, male and female. The app remembers the last half dozen numbers dialed. All in one easy package and all for $0.99. As I only have the Touch, I can&#8217;t evaluate this app personally. Fortunately, there is an online video demonstration. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AaSMOjSUnk&#38;feature=player_embedded[/youtube] iHear Dialer is available on iTunes and on the App Store. Read more about iPhone accessibility here. If you find this post useful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Variable Speed Playback on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Updated for iPhone 3.0 @ Accessing Audiobook Speed on iPhone 3.0] Speeding up a recording used to make it sound like Alvin &#38; the Chipmunks. Growing up, I had a cassette player for the blind that had a variable speed playback control. Being a kid, I used it mainly for entertainment value. Fun was had with friends making the narrators sound silly. Slide the bar up to get the fast, high-pitched tones of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Slide it down and you get slow, sonorous speech. I never used the cassette player much. It was more of a novelty. My sight was still good enough to read books without glasses even though I had to do it close up and with lots of eye strain and headaches. Those days are long over. Now I rely much more on audio books. I have never learned to get along well with the cassette players designed for the blind. Instead, I listen mostly to books that I get from audible.com. In the early days, I listen to these books on a variety of MP3 players. At some point, though, I settled on and have stuck with Apple&#8217;s iPods. I had an early [...]]]></description>
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