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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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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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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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 Google Group...
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My iPhone Access project has a new front door. With this blog, it is not easy to collect related posts onto one page (at least not that I have found). I am in the middle of an ongoing series of posts on the accessibility of the iPhone platform, but there is no one decent...
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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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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 where...
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Following up on my own call for a more accessible wordpress theme, I searched the list of available themes for the simplest up-to-date theme I could find. After hours of downloading and installing promising themes, I rand across the Dojo theme by Scott Vandehey: A minimal web-standards theme with two dynamic sidebars and an editable...
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The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has instructions on ‘How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers‘. I have wondered how accessible this blog is. I can access it quite easily since I have tweaked IE to make almost any page readable. Bur I do not know how others see it. I...
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