NYTimes.com has a great new blog, the Lens Blog, which deals with “Photojournalism – Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives”. It has recently done a great series on the famous Tianeman Square reporting. Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs,...
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I ran across a great article, Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen via Lens Blog @ NYTimes.com, detailing the stories behind the famous shot from Tiananmen Square. The article marks the twentieth anniversary of the crackdown and the publication of those images. Twenty years ago, on June 5, 1989, following weeks of massive protests...
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Bloggers come in all shepes, sizes and abilities. For the visually impeired and blind, blogs and blogging present unique challenges. To meet and discuss these issues, there is a online group of these bloggers. Visit Blind Bloggers to find out more. Blind Bloggers is a quiet, but very helpfrul, group of bloggers. Member range in...
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From Glenda Watson Hyatt’s Do It Myself Blog, here are 3 Tips for Making Your Hyperlinks More Usable. How many times do you skim an online article or blog post, looking for interesting or relevant links? Individuals with sight impairments using screen readers (software that reads aloud text on the computer monitor) can have the...
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All Access Blogging has some great Tips for Your Blog. All Access Blogging focuses on making the blogosphere accessible, a goal close to my heart as well. Tips include: Fix Your Feed Icon What’s In Your Blog’s Title Bar? Text and Background Colors On Your Blog Can Help or Hurt Your Readers Blog Quizzes: Make Them Work For...
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It is photos like these that I would take if I could. From Scenes from the recession – The Big Picture – Boston.com: The state of our global economy: foreclosures, evictions, bankruptcies, layoffs, abandoned projects, and the people and industries caught in the middle. It can be difficult to capture financial pressures in photographs, but here...
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Planet Accessibility brings together “blog feeds from the contributors of accessibility through technology“. In short, Planet Accessibility an RSS feed aggregator collecting the posts of bloggers and sites submitted by their owners. While feed submissions must be approved by the Planet Accessibility team, there are no hard and fast rules for eligibility with one exception....
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Today I started a series  of guest posts on the iPhone Diaspora. id has reposted Accessing the iPhone: How Apple could make the iPhone more accessible. Tim O’Brian is a guest columnist on id. Legally blind, Tim blogs about accessibility, photography and occasionally both together. You can find out more about Tim on his...
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“Feed My Inbox is a very simple service that attempts to bridge the gap between feeds (RSS, XML, Atom) and email.” Once you tell Feed My Inbox to keep you up to date on a particular web site or blog, Feed My Inbox will email you each day if there is new content on...
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While I really like WordPress as a blogging platform, its color scheme makes it difficult for me to manage my blog. Generally, use the Accessibar plug-in for Firefox to reset the colors, but manually redoing this each time I access my blogs is more than tiresome. There is a plugin, Easy Admin Color Schemes,...
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Twitter calls itself a a microbloogging service. What the heck is a microblog? Basically, it is a mix of blogging, text messaging and emailing. The New York Times’ David Pogue offere his take on Twitter in Twitter? It’s What You Make It. Pogue is right. Twitter is in the eye of the beholder,...
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All Access Blogging has some great tips on How To Make Your Blog Accessible. No one wakes up in the morning and says “Hmm, how can I make sure that people who are blind can’t read my blog?” However, some of our choices can create barriers for people who want to read what we have...
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As you can tell, I am a big fan of WordPress, which I use to publish this blog. But I am not always at my desk when a good idea for a post strikes. I have been looking into ways to blog on the go, so to speak, even if that just means while...
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Each month the Assistive Technology Blog Carnival presents a a series of themed posts on assistive tech. This month’s issue, the February 2009 Edition of AT Blog Carnival, features Perfect Pairings of Assistive Technology Tools. Welcome to The AT Blog Carnival for February is “Perfect Pairings”, highlighting combinations of assistive technology that work together. There...
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Boston.com’s The Big Picture offerss some wonderful photos of Carnival. It is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations and parades put on just prior to the observance of Lent. Tomorrow will be the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but the past couple of weeks have seen...
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