Posts Tagged ‘ blog ’

I have blogged sporadically about accessibility and the blogosphere. This page brings together my thoughts and tips, both specific and general, about blogging while blind. General Blogosphere Access Blind Bloggers: A Forum for Blind  (and visually impaired) Bloggers! A few months ago, at the behest of another legally blind blogger, I set up a...
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The New York Times blog,
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The wrestling marathon that I blogged about last night in Wrestling Outtakes paid off. The best image from the last match I shot made it into this morning’s paper in black and white. The original color version is below. In this shot, Corey Mock, headed for a fourth straight state championship, dominates the championship...
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As I mentioned at the end of last week, I spent much of Saturday Pinning Down Some Wrestiling Images. After spending eight hours navigating brackets, changing batteries, squatting at mat edges and dealing with a hot, crowded gym, I came home with well over two hundred photos. Three were submitted to the photo editors...
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The brouhaha over the new Kindle’s text-to-speech function possibly violating copyright has really caught fire. The issue hit the papers as well as the blogosphere. The Wall Street Journal carried the sotry with New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir. Several fellow accessibility blogs have picked up the issue. The Talking Books Librarian asks...
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This is yet another idea for making WordPress more accessible. A simple way for a visually impaired user to make a web page easier to access, either directly or through a screen reader, is to simplify the web site. The easiest way to remove clutter is often to find the printer-friendly version. These print...
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The new WordPress 2.7 is great. I really like the new layout. Spotting how to hide and show the left side bar was a bit tricky. Now that I know how to do it, I no longer have overlapping columns after zooming in Firefox. Other than that a few broken plugins, it has been...
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