Posts Tagged ‘ blind ’

I had two best men at my wedding. Their tandem toast revolved around my relationship to BPR. Addiction may be the word they used. So, as I was browsing the iPhone app store on my iPod Touch, I could not resist testing out NPR Mobile when I ran across it. NPR Mobile is an...
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The Southern California College of Optometry Eye Care Center has posted their call for entries for their next annual Shared Visions Art Exhibit. The show features work by blind artists. Andrew Bedo, a blind photographer and fellow member of the Blind Photographers Flickr group, has three images featured in this year’s exhibit. Here is...
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I have been remiss in not blogging earlier about a great resource for blind photography, Vince’s Parallax. As Vince puts it: The pages referred to here are about blind photographers and their work, techniques that anyone could use to take photos, and ways of representing the finished images. Vince has done an amazing job...
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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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insightdiscover, from flickr, has brought together several videos into a playlist, worldwide photographers who have visual impairments, on YouTube. There are currently five videos. Since they come from everywhere, only two are in English. The other three are in Spanish, Chinese and what I think might be German. Here is a short video from...
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We have begun a project, Seeing My Images, on our flickr group, to address, as a community, this issue of how blind photographers make their images. It is not as easy a question to answer as one might think. We are all unique in the way we use our camera. We vary in our...
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A few months ago, at the behest of another legally blind blogger, I set up a Google Group for bloggers who are, you guessed it!, blind and visually impaired (or are just interested in accessibility in blogging). Blind Bloggers is still a small group, with just forty four members. From the description: A space...
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Not long ago, I heard about and joined this UK-based website, DAB Photography Online – Bringing Disabled and Able-Bodied Photographers Together. I have spent some time over the last week learning to navigate the site and to post to it. At first, I though it might replicate much of what Flickr does for me....
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The Carrboro Commons reports on a “Blind photographer” who lives and works in the next town over. What a small world. Georg Gordon freelances for the Carrboro Citizen while I occasionally free lance for the local Chapel Hill News. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of...
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Spotted on Device Daily: Touch Sight Camera Allows The Blind To Take And Touch Photos The Touch Sight, a concept camera from Samsung, is a great stride forward for visually impaired photographers with little of no vision. Instead of an LCD screen, it has a Braiille display that can present the image in a...
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I spotted this article, Study explores how blind pedestrians can cross safely, in the Triangle’s News & Observer. “Walk faster” does not seem like the best technology for pedestrians, never mind visually impaired ones. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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This year I am doing the VisionWalk (http://www.visonwalk.org/) fundraiser for the Foundation Fighting Blindness. The FFB does research on several vision disorders, including mine. If you have a few dollars to spare, please consider sparing some. I have a Visionwalk page at http://www.fightblindness.org/goto/tco . No pressure! If you find this post useful or interesting,...
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I have started a Flickr group for Flickr: Blind Photographers. If you are not familiar with Flickr, it is a photo-sharing community. This group is meant for blind and visually impaired photographers to display their work. Please check it out. Technorati tag: Blind Photographers If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider...
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Slshdot has a story, Artificial Retinas Bring Vision Back To The Blind, that offers some hope for treating vision disorders. Maybe not for me and maybe not for a while yet, but the hope is there. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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