Posts Tagged ‘ apple ’

Next in my series of iPhone app accessibility reviews is Easy E-Mail Free 1.1. As the company, Rock iPhone, puts it on their web site: Want to make email writing on iPhone much easier? Easy Email is what you’re looking for! Easy Email uses the wider landscape mode keyboard which is much easier for...
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Next in my series of iPhone app accessibility reviews is EasyWriter. The main feature of EasyWriter, as its programmers put it, is: EasyWriter makes it easy to write emails using a bigger keyboard in landscape mode. Easywriter has one other accessibility feature that the default Mail program lacks; multitouch zoom. Between landscape mode and...
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Reading up on iPhone accessibility on the web, I ran across a blog post, Apple blind to iPhone accessibility?, on Ouch, thee BBC’s quirky and lively disability community. The post put me in mind of my recent post, De Facto Foolishness. We both discuss the hostility on the internet towards discussions of making Apples’s...
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Prompted by the , I have been writing a series of posts on making the iPhone easier to use visually; and . What I call intermediate accessibility, what the NY Times calls ease of use in For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology, is accessibility for those with some functional sight. Instead of focusing...
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I strongly believe that there is a burgeoning market for what might be called intermediate accessibility in product design. Too often, the term accessibility is related only to those with profound lack of access. When we think of people in need of accessibility, we think of the profoundly deaf or blind and those restricted...
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Yesterday, I posted about the new design for a tactile interface for the iPhone. While getting my thoughts together to write the post, I read and responded to the comments on Yanko Design article where I first read about this iPhone case. Some of the comments were, in my opinion, insensitive on the issue...
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Twitter directed me to a post on Yanko Design which led me to this neat discovery, an accessible tactile case for the iPhone and iPod Touch. From the designer: invisual – a tactile Silicone case for the Apple iPhone 13 November, 2008 used with an app store application, designed in mind, for the Blind...
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Scanning through the Personal Tech section of the Times, I bumped into an interesting tidbit, “Tip of the Week – Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book – NYTimes.com“. I have an iPod Touch (the iPhone sans phone), so I ws intrigued, though remaining skeptical, by this tip. I just downloaded the app, Stanza, to...
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Here is a nice review of iPods, other digital music players and related software from an accessible perspective: Portable Player Portal Main Page. I am interested in Rockbox, which has a voice-based interface, but it does not allow for Audible.com playback. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a...
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The iPodLounge website has an excellent introdcution to using iPods to listen to audiobooks. So, if you have been thinking about becoming an audiobook listener, but have not yet taken that first step, this is for you. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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The New Straits Times, Malaysia News Online, has a review of the accessibility of the new iPod shuffle. It seems like a great choice for those who can’t (or don’t like to) read the screens that these devices come with. Since the iPod functions without a screen with a ‘minimalist’ user interface, the iPod...
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I use an iPod MP3 player to listen to audiobooks. It has some great features and looks great too. I have some ideas about how to make it easier to use for those of us who find its screen hard to see. I sent the following message to Apple via its iPod feedback page...
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As I posted Microsoft’s Resource Guide for the visually impaired a few days ago, I felt I should add a post on Apple’s Vision Accessibility page. Apple discusses several features of OS X, including a ‘spoken interface’, a ‘Zoom’ option and special Display settings. Apple also links to a number of ‘Third Party Solutions’....
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