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		<title>Lens Blog @ NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes.com has a great new blog, the Lens Blog, which deals with &#8220;Photojournalism &#8211; Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives&#8221;. 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, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web. And it will draw on The Times&#8217;s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century. Check it ou. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Tank Man of Tiananmen @ Lens BlogBlind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind PhotographyTime for a Fast Prime Lens?Fun Photography with PhotojojoModel-morphosis @ NYTimes.com]]></description>
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		<title>Tank Man of Tiananmen @ Lens Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 in Beijing, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, a lone man stepped in front of a column of tanks rumbling past Tiananmen Square. The moment instantly became a symbol of the protests as well as a symbol against oppression worldwide — an anonymous act of defiance seared into our collective consciousnesses. The story includes both the four famous photos and blurbs from the photographers who took these iconic images, so it is well worth checking out. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Lens Blog @ NYTimes.comSlashdot &#124; Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man SightBlind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind PhotographyThe Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon &#8211; NYTimes.comTime for a Fast Prime Lens?]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the Blogosphere: Blind Bloggers</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/accessing-the-blogosphere-blind-bloggers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 types and levels of visual impairement. Major blog platforms, including WordPress and Blogger, are represented as well with a wide range of expertise. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Blind BloggersBlogosphere AccessThe Seeing My Images ProjectFlickr: Blind PhotographersPlanet Accessibility: Bringing Together the A11y Blogosphere]]></description>
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		<title>Do It Myself Blog &#8211; Glenda Watson Hyatt » 3 Tips for Making Your Hyperlinks More Usable</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Glenda Watson Hyatt&#8217;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 software scan for hypertext links. However, oftentimes, the purpose of the hyperlink is difficult to determine. Similarly, individuals with other types of disabilities may face other obstacles while trying to use hyperlinks. The three tips are: Tip #1: Make hypertext links informative when read out of context. Tip #2: Make hypertext links succinct. Tip #3: Separate adjacent links with non-linked, printable characters. I have worked hard to implement the first and third, but fail miserably at the second tip. These guidelines are easy to remember and implement, which is great. More importantly, they are universally useful. Not only do they help screen reader users, but they reduce ambiguity. For more details, see 3 Tips for Making Your Hyperlinks More Usable. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:How To Make Your Blog Accessible &#8211; Tips from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Access Blogging: Tips for Your Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s In Your Blog&#8217;s Title Bar? Text and Background Colors On Your Blog Can Help or Hurt Your Readers Blog Quizzes: Make Them Work For ALL Your Readers How many links are in this sentence? After reading Fix Your Feed Icon, I realized that I have been copying the caption into the alt text tag. Doing this makes screen readers repeat the same text, once for the caption and again for the alt text tag. Definitely worth the read. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:How To Make Your Blog Accessible &#8211; Tips from All Access BloggingBlogosphere AccessDo It Myself Blog &#8211; Glenda Watson Hyatt » 3 Tips for Making Your Hyperlinks More UsableCall for a Printer Friendly WordPressBlog Accessibilty]]></description>
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		<title>Scenes from the recession @ The Big Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is photos like these that I would take if I could. From Scenes from the recession &#8211; The Big Picture &#8211; 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 a few recent glimpses into some of the places and lives affected by what some are calling the &#8220;Great Recession&#8221;. (35 photos total) Yesterday&#8217;s post at The Big Picture is particularly moving. Every day, I glance or look at a ton of pictures. Yet some still grab my attention and articulate some theme better than any words would. Take a look. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Seeing the Big PictureCarnival @ The Big PictureDeconstructing BostonOff-Topic: Why We Need a Tax Hike. Now.Boston Globe &#34;Adapting PCs to an aging population&#34;]]></description>
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		<title>Planet Accessibility: Bringing Together the A11y Blogosphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planet Accessibility brings together &#8220;blog feeds from the contributors of accessibility through technology&#8220;. 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. Bloggers must be active contributors to a11y and post relevant a11y articles from time to time. So Planet Accessibility. is a great way to find out what is going on in the accessibility part of the blogosphere. If you are an a11y blogger, then this is a spot to share your voice. Plus, you can learn the meaning of the term, a11y. A11y stands for Accessibility through Computing. A11y is geekspeek by retaining the first and last letters of the word accessibility and replacing the middle 11 letters with 11. Thus A11Y (a-eleven-y) If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:A11y Tweeps: Accessibility Twitter FeedsBlogosphere AccessAccessing the Blogosphere: Blind BloggersBlind BloggersVote for WordPress Access]]></description>
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		<title>guest blogger on the iPhone Diaspora</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 blog or by following him on twitter. iPhene Diaspora is a new blog bringing together the iPhone user community. id is all about the iPhone all the time! Seriously though, we hope to use id to engage the iPhone community, both users and developers. id is comprised of a couple of internet guys and is based in St. Louis Missouri. Thanks, guys! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Guest Blogging on the iPhone Diaspora (Again)Blogosphere AccessA New Slide Rule for Blind Touch Screen UsersNow You Can Find All My iPhone Access ReviewsiPhone Accessibility: An Open Letter to Steve Jobs &#038; Apple]]></description>
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		<title>Feed My Inbox: Follow Blogs and Forums Easily and Accessibly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Feed My Inbox is a very simple service that attempts to bridge the gap between feeds (RSS, XML, Atom) and email.&#8221; 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 that site. It is that simple. You can unsubscribe any time from a particular feed. Just click on the unsubscribe link in the daily update. It&#8217;s As Easy As That A good question is: How Does this Work? It must either cost money or be complicated to sign up and then get updates. No, on both counts. There is not registration process whatsoever. It is free. And you subscribe to updates in three easy steps. From the Feed My Inbox web site: Step 1 Find the site you would like to track, such as a blog, a news site, twitter feed, or even craigslist search results. Most browsers will display whether there is a feed on the page or not. Look for the orange/white or blue/white icons on the right side of your browser: Step 2 Once you find a feed you would like to subscribe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Contrast Admin Color Scheme for WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, that offers some hope for a better solution. The Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin allows users to easily customize the colors of the administration interface for WordPress. It works by adding a new page to the Settings area in the WordPress admin interface. Users can use the simple form to change the look of the admin interface without needing to know a great deal about WordPress. I have loaded the plugin, which, by default, offers several pretty, but low contrast, color schemes. EACS allows you to either import new color schemes or create new ones. Despite my lack of any real experience with html or style sheets (what&#8217;s the difference?), I blundered through editing one of the preset options, turning it as best as I could, into a high-contrast, gold-on-black color scheme. It still is not perfect, but it goes a long way to making the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Twitter from the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; 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, so to speak. I will delve no further into Twitterology. Twitter accessibility has attracted much attention. There are a multitude of ways to access Twitter from your desktop. The most obvious is through the Twitter web site, but there are dozens of widget, apps and plug ins that do the job, each with it own accessibility issue. A popular new access point is through Accessible Twitter, which has a clean, screen-reader-friendly interface. How accessible is Twitter on the iPhone? Besides receiving tweets as expensive text messages, there are multiple iPhone apps that access your Twitter stream as well as Twitter&#8217;s mobile web site. Here, I will compare the accessibility of two of the more popular iPhone apps, Twitteriffic and TwitterFon, with that of the mobile web site. TwitterFon, as you can see in the first image, has a fairly standard visual look with black font on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Make Your Blog Accessible &#8211; Tips from All Access Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Access Blogging has some great tips on How To Make Your Blog Accessible. No one wakes up in the morning and says &#8220;Hmm, how can I make sure that people who are blind can&#8217;t read my blog?&#8221; However, some of our choices can create barriers for people who want to read what we have to say. Inspired by Mark Pilgrim&#8217;s classic series Dive Into Accessibility, this guide will show you how to make changes so that everyone can enjoy your blog. Not every tip will be 100% applicable to every type of blog, but I invite you to learn about each tip and figure out if it&#8217;s right for you. Since I rely on zooming and alternate color schemes, I do not see how screen readers work. So these tips are very useful. The latest tip, Does your blog post have sections? Get organized with headings., helped me realize that simply bolding section titles robs screen reader users of a key guidepost for navigating my longer posts. Read more of my thoughts on Blogosphere Access. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:All Access Blogging: Tips for Your BlogBlogosphere AccessBlog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on the Go: Accessing the iPhone WordPress App</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 sitting in the living room. Since laptops are too unwieldy and their screens to small to accommodate my visual needs, I can not just borrow my wife&#8217;s laptop. So I can use either an analog notebook (the one with pages) and pen or my iPod Touch. I can not read my own handwriting much of the time, so going old-school presents too many transcription problems. So how can my iPod help? The first way is to use email. Since the iPhone Mail app is not particularly accessible, there are a number of substitutes available in the App Store, from simple mail apps like EasyWriter to more fully-featured note-taking apps like Fliq Notes. The best way should be to use WordPress&#8217; own iPhone app, WordPress for iPhone. As you can see in their video overview below, this app packs a lot of great WordPress features. What this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On this Month&#8217;s AT Blog Carnival</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/assistive-technology-blog-carnival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each month the Assistive Technology Blog Carnival presents a a series of themed posts on assistive tech. This month&#8217;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 &#8220;Perfect Pairings&#8221;, highlighting combinations of assistive technology that work together. There are some great tools shared this month that blend to do some great things. I hope you enjoy them! I submitted one of my posts and it was accepted. Tim O&#8217;Brien, a blind photographer, shares from his blog, tim o&#8217;brien photos, &#8220;Access the Web!&#8221; with a trio of tools for web access for the visually impaired. Thanks, Lon! See you next month. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Carnival @ The Big PictureHow To Make Your Blog Accessible &#8211; Tips from All Access BloggingBlogosphere Accessguest blogger on the iPhone DiasporaTinkering &#038; Musing: My Web Access Page]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival @ The Big Picture</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/carnival-the-big-picture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston.com&#8217;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 parades and celebrations throughout Europe, the Caribbean and South America &#8211; notably Venice, Italy and Brazil. Collected here are just a glimpse of some of the elaborate celebrations of this Carnival season. (40 photos total) I love this blog. The large images are always well chosen and the size accomadeted my vision. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Seeing the Big PictureScenes from the recession @ The Big PictureOn this Month&#8217;s AT Blog CarnivalDeconstructing BostonBoston.com / Designing websites with senior citizens in mind]]></description>
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