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		<title>iPhone Easy Access Mode: An App Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 not achieved any traction either. The basic idea is for a touch screen device, like the iPhone, to support an accessible mode where, instead of the usual graphical buttons and layouts, large areas of the screen are used with a telephone prompt style system to interact with the user. For example, an audio prompt to, “Press the top right of the screen to make a call” and so on. High contrast blocks of colours would make it possible to find the right area with very little vision, and completely blind users could find the edge of the screen by touch, with small modifications to the case if necessary. Numeric input, to enter a phone number for example, could be handled with simple tactile markers arranged around the outside of the screen. Switching to the accessible mode could be as simple as pressing anywhere on the screen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insights 2009 Call For Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The LightHouse is currently call for submissions to its 20th Insights exhibition. &#8220;The LightHouse is accepting up to five submissions of original works by artists who are blind or visually impaired for consideration for Insights 2009.&#8221; Submissions are due by Friday, April 24, 2009. Chosen entries will be shown in Fall 2009 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery&#8217;s &#8216;Art in City Hall&#8217; program. Artwork for consideration can include, but is not limited to: paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture and mixed media pieces. Distinguished jurors will select work from all two and three-dimensional media except video. Touchable art is encouraged. Works will be selected on the basis of original concept, expressive use of media and artistic excellence. Learn more and find the artist application at the Insights 2009 exhibition page. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Lighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the BlindEnter the APH InSights Art Competition2010 InSights Art CompetitionFYI: Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 Call for EntriesCreative Vision: An Exhibition on Vision and Perception]]></description>
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		<title>Enter the APH InSights Art Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/enter-the-aph-insights-art-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Fred&#8217;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&#8217;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 15 for Adults.. The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) invites visually impaired and blind artists of all ages to submit one artwork each to APH InSights 2009! This art competition and exhibition is exclusively for blind artists and draws entries from across the U.S. and around the world. More information, forms and the rules are available on the APH museum web site. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:2010 InSights Art CompetitionInsights 2009 Call For ArtistsLighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the BlindFYI: Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 Call for EntriesThe Shared Visions Art Exhibit]]></description>
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		<title>FYI: Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 Call for Entries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s exhibit. Here is the official announcement with links to the application form. The Eye Care Center at SCCO announces that the “Call for Artists” for Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 has begun. As in the previous four shows, this is a juried art exhibit in which all artworks have been created by artists who are blind or legally blind. Works selected by the jury will be exhibited in the Eye Care Center for a period of one year. Please click on the links to receive the “Call for Artists” and the Application Packet to receive the needed entry detail information. The deadline for entries is Wednesday, May 13, 2009. I hope to submit something this year. If you are eligible, please submit some of your work. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:The Shared Visions Art ExhibitEnter the APH [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Firefox Feature: Zoom to Screen Width</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/call-for-firefox-feature-zoom-to-screen-width/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;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 column on a web page in the iPhone browser, it automatically zooms in to fir the column to the width of the screen. It would be great to be able to do something similar in Firefox. First, it would be great if Firefox could automatically zoom so that a web page fills the width of the screen. I have a wide-screen monitor and almost all sites have wide empty margins. Second, clicking on a column in a multi-column web site could zoom so the column fits the screen width. Does anyone know if this is even feasible? Anyone want to implement it? If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:iPhone Tap Dance: Just Tap (Twice) to ZoomWeb AccessWeb AccessCall for Moblie Web ZoomThe Widescreen Edition]]></description>
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		<title>Call for a Printer Friendly WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/01/call-for-a-printer-friendly-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 page links remove headers, sidebars and visually-distracting ads. The text is allowed to flow across the entire width of the screen, taking advantage of the increased legibility of enlarged text in widescreen monitors. I am not alone in this. Some has psoted a WordPress Idea for a Printer Friendly Button. This would work so that clicking on a post, or a page, or a section, or even the whole blog, could be output as a printer-friendly document for backup or other purposes. There is a plugin called WP-Print that implements this concept. Problematically, WP-Print is not so easy to install and set up. I also can&#8217;t see how to use it to print categories or the whole blog. It has taken me a while to figure out how to get it working on this blog. Too few use WP-Print. Having a built-in print option throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessibility Friction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading up on iPhone accessibility on the web, I ran across a blog post, Apple blind to iPhone accessibility?, on Ouch, thee BBC&#8217;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&#8217;s products more accessible to the blind and visually impaired. But it&#8217;s the comments after the entry that prove really shocking. Apple fans are known for their almost religious dedication to the brand, and some of them simply can&#8217;t see the point in &#8216;needlessly worrying&#8217; about blind and visually impaired phone users. Where does this antipathy come from? What drives regular people to such vehemence on this issue when there are so many more matters worthy of the soap box. I do not understand. Just one of the many comments on Yanko Design&#8217;s notice about the design of the tactile iPhone case: yeah, this is alright, but just wait until you see my headphones for the deaf Sometimes calls for more accessibility are made in frustrations, which can make the writer appear whiny. Yet most are drafted with common sense and a balanced tone. No accessibility advocate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nnm8 Me 4 #Ally Awrd!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you&#8217;d like until midnight December 31st. How it works&#8230; The Shorty Awards are very Web 2.0. The catergories are user-generated and evolving. The nomination process and voting is all done via Twitter. &#8220;To nominate someone, tweet @shortyawards with a @nominee and a #category, and why you think they should win.&#8221; I have started the #accessibility and #blindphotography categories. If these categories receive enough traction, they will sruvive.  So, please nnm8 me 4 #ally awrd! Or nominate someone at least. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:2009 Photoblog Awards: Please VoteiPhone App Accessibility: Quixotic Quest?guest blogger on the iPhone DiasporaMore on Accessing Twitter from the iPhone: Updated Twitteriffic ReviewTim on Twitter]]></description>
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		<title>Call for a WordPress Accessiblility Plugin</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/call-for-a-wordpress-accessiblility-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 standardized. There is already a WordPress plugin to check for broken links. Why not a plugin to check for improperly tagged images and improperly set up links? I would write one, but I lack the skills. Fortunately, WordPress has set up a marketplace for suggestions, WordPress Ideas I have posted this suggection, Idea: Plugin to Ensure Accessiblility to Screen Readers. I would love a plugin that would work like the Broken Links plug in. It would check all images, links and other media for all the right tags (e.g. the alt tag) to make the blog more accessible to screen readers. If you have a moment, vote for my suggestion. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Call for a Printer Friendly WordPressBlogosphere AccessCall for a High-Contrast WordPress ThemeVote for WordPress AccessHigh Contrast Admin Color Scheme for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chief Accessibility Officer</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/the-chief-accessibility-officer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 managers handles all the ADA matters for disabled employees. If at all, an engineer or designer may appoints herself the access guru for others in her team. Occasionally, the legal team is brought on for a quick opinion. Who is keeping an eye out for disabled customers? Who is doing long term planning on these issues? No one. Instead of this piecemeal and disorganized approach, the chief accessibility officer brings accessibility into the larger picture. With the CAO, there should be less of a need to retrofit products, facilities or web sites to conform to legal requirements or market demands. A CAO would envision a corporate accessibility framework, bringing consistency, breadth and depth to the company&#8217;s accessibility. I am not speaking here of a chief compliance officer. A compliance officer focuses solely on a firm&#8217;s legal responsibilities. Let this position remain in the legal department. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A (Partly) DIY Accessible WordPress Theme</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/11/a-partly-diy-accessible-wordpress-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;about&#8221; blurb. As much as I ended up liking the three column format with the optional blurb, I liked the extraordinarily minimal color scheme. However, it does not come with customizable colors, so I was stuck with the black-on-white design that strains my eyes so badly. I did not want to throw my hands up in frustration and surrender, so I decided to tinker (sorry, Scott). I went into WordPress&#8217; theme editor and loaded up the main css page after mistakenly playing wilth the print css page. I searched and found all the references to background and color and found some unintelligible six digit codes. It is never as simple as brown or green. Googling found me a page of colors matched with their html codes. I plugged in the code for black in the background field and some colors for colors that I liked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for a High-Contrast WordPress Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 whistles but with a simple gold-on black color scheme? Add your vote, voice or theme-writing skills to the cause! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Call for a WordPress Accessiblility PluginCall for a Printer Friendly WordPressA (Partly) DIY Accessible WordPress ThemeBlogosphere Accessabout the site]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Alternative Google Color Schemes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/08/alternative-google-color-schemes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; accessible &#124; Google Groups&#60; For the visually impaired, Google&#8217;s (as well as MS and most websites) color scheme is downright bad. Does Google have or could it develop an alternative accessible co or scheme? Not only should it be high contrast, but also light-on-dark. For me, I like yellow-on-black. Firefox and IE allow users to impose color schemes while browsing, but this method changes all text and background to the same two colors. This ruins the full use of each page. For example, in Gmail, the star feature becomes useless.For another, regular text and hyperlinks become indistinguishable. So this solution is only partial. This remains true for other websites and for Windows as well. Both Vista and XP have high-contrast color schemes, but there are both aesthetically unappealing (Visually impaired does not equal aesthetically unaware) and more problematic then helpful. Is this something that Google could/will implement? Is this something a third-party could do well? There are some third party tools (e.g. Firefox&#8217;s Accessibar), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Accessible Windows Vista Themes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/07/accessible-windows-vista-themes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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, you can either right-click on the desktop and select &#8216;Personalize&#8216; and then to &#8216;Windows Colors and Appearance&#8216; or go to the &#8216;Ease of Access Center&#8216; Control Panel and then to &#8216;Set Up High Contrast&#8216;. Either way, you are stuck with an ugly interface with the small font. The &#8216;Ease of Access Center&#8216; has an option for changing something called DPI to make the font easier to read, but that only goes so far. I checked out the trial version of WindowBlinds, but I could not easily find any accessible themes. After a frustrating few minutes with the software, I sent an email to the company who sells it, asking them if WindowBlinds offeres any accessible themes. In the end, I spent a good chunk of time adjusting all the color and font settings in the &#8216;Windows Colors and Appearance&#8216; panel. After a few mistakes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Food Menus</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2007/09/fast-food-menus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another gripe I have are the wall menus at fast food joints. From food court Burger King to local McAlister&#8217;s Deli to the airport Starbuck&#8217;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 your meal either ends up in confusion or inappropriate questions and always holds up the line full of hungry folks. When I was a kid, I always picked and memorized one thing, &#8220;doublecheeseburgerlargefiriesandacoke&#8220;. This worked well for McDonald&#8217;s and BK&#8217;s, but did not extend well to other spots. It definitely does not work today since I do not eat at either burger joint anymore. [See Fast Food Nation.] Why can&#8217;t these places have a hard copy of the menu available? I know that some do, usually a take-out menu. This is useful, but it would not cost these big franchisers a lot to design and distribute a large print version. Some might say that the menus are available (mostly) on the web, but who is going to print out and carry around a binder full of menus on the off-chance they hit a fast food spot [...]]]></description>
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