Notes from a small field posted a neat idea for iPhone accessibility a couple of years back. He proposes an accessibility mode, where the iPhone (or any touch screen device) engages a very simple interface for the disabled. A while ago, I posted about a similar concept for the desktop computer, but that has...
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The LightHouse is currently call for submissions to its 20th Insights exhibition. “The LightHouse is accepting up to five submissions of original works by artists who are blind or visually impaired for consideration for Insights 2009.” Submissions are due by Friday, April 24, 2009. Chosen entries will be shown in Fall 2009 at...
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Spotted on Fred’s Head Companion, the APH is calling for entries to its annual art exhibit, Insights. The APH InSights 2009: Visions From the Mind is the APH’s eighteenth annual juried art competition and exhibition for artists who are visually impaired or blind. Deadlines for Entry: April 1 for Preschool through High School and April...
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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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Yesterday’s post on iPhone zooming gave me an idea for an interesting zoom feature for Firefox. Since I am no programmer, I thought I would trhow it out there and hope the idea catches on. The idea is based on a neat iPhone zoom feature. As I noted yesterday, if you double tap on a...
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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 this...
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Reading up on iPhone accessibility on the web, I ran across a blog post, Apple blind to iPhone accessibility?, on Ouch, thee BBC’s quirky and lively disability community. The post put me in mind of my recent post, De Facto Foolishness. We both discuss the hostility on the internet towards discussions of making Apples’s...
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A few days ago, I ran across sometihng called the Shorty Awards on Twitter. The seem to be a light-hearted way to leverage the TwitterVerse for a little fun. The Shorty Awards honor the world’s top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you’d like until midnight December 31st. How...
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I find it tricky to make sure that all my blog posts conform to the requirement of screen readers. Images should have properly descriptive at tags. Links should be well-named and not open the link in a new page.I am sure that this list goes on from there. Some of these things could be...
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CEO, CFO, CIO. What about a CAO? The Chief Accessibility Officer would coordinate and oversee all company accessibility issues. The CAO would ensure that disabled employees, investors and consumers would all have reasonable access  to their relevant sections of the company. Currently, these issues are covered,if at all, sporadically and in isolation. A human resources...
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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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I have made a call on the wordpress.org site for a more accessible theme! Many themes are hard for visually impaired folks to read. Not just legally blind people like me, but many older folks have it tough with all theses colorful and cluttered themes. Can someone build me a simple theme with bells and...
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Following up on my earlier post about the lack of accessible Vista themes and my current feelings on standard internet color schemes, I posted the following to the accessible Google Group: Alternative Google Color Schemes – accessible | Google Groups< For the visually impaired, Google’s (as well as MS and most websites) color scheme is downright...
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As I noted in the last post, I have just moved to a Windows Vista machine. I have spent the last few days looking for a decent theme with large fonts and good light-on-dark contrast. There are none! The Windows high contrast themes, besides being hideous, do not have large text. To check these out,...
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Yet another gripe I have are the wall menus at fast food joints. From food court Burger King to local McAlister’s Deli to the airport Starbuck’s, all of these places have their menus on the wall, but no handy large print paper menu on hand. Asking the over-worked and under-trained cashier for help picking...
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