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		<title>Accessible iTunes: A Truly Large Font</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Apple&#8217;s leading efforts in accessibility technology, I have always found iTunes extremely hard to use. Apple&#8217;s major focus has been on VoiceOver and screen reader software compatibility. There are many visually impaired computer users out there (and right here) who have not made the switch to a non-visual interface, preferring to rely on large font sizes, high contrast color schemes and zooming. iTunes is just as beautiful as all of Apple&#8217;s software. It has a lovely color scheme and its layout is aesthetically pleasing. The program is very resistant to large fonts and alternate color schemes. Until today, I have had to rely on zooming, squinting and my low vision aids to navigate my songs and playlists. Now, I have found a hack to fix the problem. Buried in a comment on a earlier post, I found a link to Teridon&#8217;s Resource file hacks for iTunes for Windows. This unhappily named site offers a free bit of software, the iTunes Font Size Editor, that does one and only one thing. It allows you to customize the font size of the song list in iTunes. Teridon puts it this way: &#8220;iTunes gives you two font sizes: &#8220;small&#8221; (which is 8pt) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Wikipedia on the iPhone: Wikipanion Accessiility</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 12:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipanion is a feature-rich access point Wikipedia on the iPhone. it has an intelligent, well thought out interface. Besides support for multiple languages, Wikipanion has smart search and bookmarking features. you can also e-mail your search results to disbelieving friends. Wikipanion is also quite accessible. Not only is the font size adjustable, but you can use both multi-touch and double-tap zooming. You can use Wikipanion in either landscape or portrait mode. The only major accessibility feature it lacks is the ability to choose an alternate color scheme. The Wikipanion web site offers detailed descriptions of these features. This intellgent layout is described as Pretty Print: Wikipanion&#8217;s custom formatting for the iPhone formats each page so that it is easy to read and quick to load. With a direct connection to the Wikipedia servers, pages load several times faster than when viewed from Safari. Wikipanion is the only Wikipedia reader to support double tap zooming in and out on the page. It also has complicated algorithms to display tables, size images and scale TeX equations for easier viewing. The adjustable font slider is describes as Sizes that fit: Interactively resize the font size to whatever you please right in the interface. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Experiment in Readability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 12:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A website, arc90 lab, offers an amazing tool, Readability, that makes web sites easier to use. Officially an experiment, Readability is a bookmarklet that strips away clutter and reformats the main content of a website so that it is easy to read. Readability is a browser bookmarklet (sort of like a bookmark on steroids). You can install Readability by visiting the Readability setup page: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Readability works with most major modern browsers and has been tested on many news sites and blogs. It isn&#8217;t 100% effective but works surprisingly well. Below you can see a standard view of an article on the New Your Times&#8217; website: Using the Readability setting for terminal style (green background with white text), extra large font and narrow margins, the article is transformed in a single click on a bookmark to the following: It is simple to set up. There are multiple choices for style, font size and margin width. Once you pick your settings, you cimply drag a button onto your bookmarks and you are good to go. Here is short video demostration: I use it with the NoSquint extension on Firefox to enlarge the text a bit further, but I love the simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Energy, Save Eyestrain &#8211; Try a Different Color Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/save-energy-save-eyestrain-try-a-different-color-scheme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cost of Ink or Why History Trumps Common Sense Open up Microsoft Word or most web sites and the type is laid out in black against a white background like most books or newspapers. Like most books or newspapers? Why? Dark ink on white pages made more sense than white ink on dyed pages when ink is costly. It is a lot cheaper to bleach paper white and then cover a tiny portion with a bit of black ink than to ink every page completely black and then use white out to add text. This is true despite the easier read being the losing color scheme. Economics wins, every time. Do we need to follow this tradition in the digital age? Electronic ink costs nothing. As a matter of fact, bright white screens must draw more electricity. So alternate color schemes are probably more environmental than the old standard. Save energy, save eyestrain. Go light on dark. Changing Color Schemes is Tricky Let&#8217;s assume that I have convinced you to change color schemes. How do you do it? If you have a screen magnifying software, such as ZoomText, this may be easy. Many such programs offers an &#8216;inverse&#8217; color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weather Access on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/weather-access-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call me crazy. I carry my own meteorologist around in my pocket. I check the temperature, outdoor conditions and the forecast several times a day. I guess I am crazy. But the iPhone&#8217;s Weather App is a great personal meteorologist. Well designed,, it lays out lots of information in a simple, easy to read format. Using images instead of text, the forecast and current conditions are easy and quick to see. The dark background adds not only to the aesthetics, but makes it much more accessible as well. Weather lacks two important accessibility features, zoom and landscape mode. I understand why the develops did not find this necessary, but I do not see how enabling them would hurt. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing the iPhone CalendarAccessing the iPhone App StoreAccessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock AppAccessing the NY Times, iPhone EditioniPhone as Accessible Pocket Watch]]></description>
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		<title>Feeds on the Go: Accessing Google Reader on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To keep track of all the blogs I like to follow, I use Google Reader. It has a nice clean interface and works in any browser from anywhere. So, I naturally wanted to check this out for the iPhone. Like most of Google&#8217;s online applications, access to Google Reader is through its mobile web site on the iPhone&#8217;s built-in browser. The iPhone browser allows landscape mode for any site, so Google Reader has that accessibility feature. Unfortunately, that is the only accessibility y feature the program has. For some reason, mobile web sites tend to disable the multi-touch zoom that is the iPhone&#8217;s big accessibility advantage. Google Reader also sticks with Google&#8217;s elegant, but low contrast, color scheme. It is useable, but zoom would make it that much better. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing Google Talk on the iPhoneAccessing the iPhone CalendarAccessible e-Reading: Google BooksAccessing the iPhone App StoreAccessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock App]]></description>
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		<title>Tweetie Access on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my earlier review of free Twitter apps on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone, a reader suggested I check out his favorite Twitter app, Tweetie. Tweetie is a feature-rich Twitter app that has added a couple of valuable accessibility features in its latest release, making Tweetie worth the $2.99 price tag. [Caveat Emptor: I used a free promo code to download this app fro review.] Tweetie now has both themes and font choice. The large font choice is reasonably large (you can also choose small and medium). One of the theme choices is a very accessible light-on-dark. Between these two features, I find Tweetie sufficiently easy to use. There are a couple of changes that would make the app more accessible. Landscape mode, combined with a giant font option, would make Tweetie even easier to read. The theme only covers the main page. Tapping to a single tweet page reverts to the normal white-on-black color scheme. Overall, Tweetie is now my default choice for Twittering on my iPod Touch. Besides the ease of reading, Tweetie also allows me to keep track of both the Twitter accounts I run, oberazzi, for this blog, and BlindPhotogs, for the Blind Photographers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing WritePad</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/accessing-writepad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WritePad is a handwriting recognition engine for the iPhone from Phatware. WritePad is the free basic app that powers Phatware&#8217;s more functional suite of apps, WritePad Affairs, WritePad Events and WritePad Notes. WritePad Supports iPhone and iPod Touch 2.0 or later WritePad is a new custom editor for iPhone that utilizes handwriting recognition input for the English language as well as iPhone keyboard for text entry, spell checker, context analyzer and standard editing operations such as copy, cut, paste, etc. How accessible is WritePad? Handwriting recognition is a neat accessibility feature since you no longer need to use the virtual keyboard to type text. WritePad also has an adjustable font size and color scheme. On the other hand, the app does not over landscape mode or an alternative color scheme. In the end, it depends on how reliable the handwriting recognition is for you. WritePad allows you to send notes via email and can store multiple notes. I expect that the pricier Phatware offerings build nicley on top of WritePad, but I have not tested them yet. If you find it useful for nothing else, you can literally jot down a phone number or other quick note without the delays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Accessing Twitter from the iPhone: Updated Twitteriffic Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, I reviewed several ways to access Twitter on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone. I compared the TwitterFon and Twitteriffic apps with Twitter&#8217;s mobile web site. 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. It turns out that my review of Twitterific was incomplete and, therefore, my conclusion was wrong. Sorry, Twitteriffic folks! I have now fixed the earlier update and am including the new portion here: I had high hopes for Twitteriffic when I first used it. Twitteriffic uses an alternative color schemes but I rather like. The light text on a black background is much easier to read than the standard color scheme. Until I received a recent email from the developers, I thought that you could not zoom. But I was wrong. [My excuse is that I never read the instructions because the font is to small.] As the developers just alerted me, you can double tap [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>iPhone App Accessibility: Quixotic Quest?</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/iphone-app-accessibility-quixotic-quest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I had begun to despair that my attempt to bring about more iPhone accessibility would be a long, lonely waste of time. Apple has been unresponsive to my campaign. Few contacted developers responded to my suggestions. I turned to a few iPhone developer forums. At rirst, I had little luck their either. Then I turned to the folks at Ars Technica. After poking around, I started a discussion topic in their forums, iPhone App Accessibility: Quixotic Quest?. I have has some very insightful comments. From these, I have developed four feasible goals for my quest. To sum up so far, a primary focus should lobby Apple to incorporate low cost accessibility features into the iPhone OS and API. This is the low-hanging fruit. Second, I should ask Apple to produce some simple, straightforward accessibility documentation and guidelines for developers. Third, I should encourage individual app developers to improve their app with specific reviews. Fourth, I should try to leverage the broader low-vision market to help with the lobbying. In my mind the low-hanging fruit are enabling zoom and landscape mode by default for all apps, including their own. Obviously, there will be some apps where this [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=1693</guid>
		<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>Take a Short Survey on Small Screen Displays</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/take-a-short-survey-on-small-screen-displays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As seen on the Talking Books Librarian, the American Foundation for the Blind&#8217; is conducting a Survey on Small Screen Visual Displays at http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?Mode=Survey&#38;SurveyID=101. Taken from the website: AFB TECH, the technology arm of the American Foundation for the Blind, is currently working to establish standards to improve the readability of small screen visual displays, and we want input from AccessWorld readers. Specifically, we are referring to small visual electronic displays found in products like cell phones, blood glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, alarm clocks, calculators, home appliances, and office equipment. We would like to ask our AccessWorld readers with low vision the following questions, to find out about your experiences using products with small screen displays. Small screens do not have to be inaccessible and hard to read. They also do not need to be redigned entirely from scratch to be improved despite the fact that retooling a poor design for access is not as effective as building in access from the start. Too many small screen use uneccasrily small fonts, have low contrast color schemes and lots of unused blacnk space. The Trader Joe&#8217;s card swipe machine using a blue and grey color scheme that offers nearly no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Fliq Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fliq Notes is of my favorite iPhone apps. Not only is it versatile and useful, but it&#8217;s also quite colorful. This app is designed allow you to, organize and share your notes. in other colorful and intuitive interface which is remarkably accessible. Fliq Notes is part of a suite of applications, both for your mobile device and for your computer, designed to help mobile device users organize and share information. From the Fliq Notes web site: Fliq Notes is the only free app of its kind that lets you create, edit, save, search and sort all of your notes by name, date or category. Fliq Notes is easy to use, reliable and flexible. Simply download and install the app and start sharing notes with friends, co-workers, classmates and family members. You can sort your notes by name, date or, most usefully, customizable categories. The font is a reasonable size and reasonably legible. The entire app works both in landscape mode and in portrait mode. The color scheme involves that bright yellow which adds a nice contract You can choose your own font and font size. It is quite easy to do and the font settings screen is implemented rather nicely. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing EasyWriter: iPhone App Accessibility Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next in my series of iPhone app accessibility reviews is EasyWriter. The main feature of EasyWriter, as its programmers put it, is: EasyWriter makes it easy to write emails using a bigger keyboard in landscape mode. Easywriter has one other accessibility feature that the default Mail program lacks; multitouch zoom. Between landscape mode and the zoom, Easywriter becomes a much more accessible way to type emails than Apple&#8217;s offering. The last bit of good news is that it is free! Like all the email-capable apps, sending the email requires the app to hand control back to the default Mail program. There you need to fill in the To and Subject lines and click send. All in all, it is a fairly painless process. What is EasyWriter missing? First, there is no way to ajust the color scheme. Light fonts on a dark background are much easier on the eyes. Second, there is a fairly restrictive limit to how much you can zoom in. More zoom would be very nice. Even nicer would be even more control over font type and default size. Unless EasyWriter adpots some of these additional fearues, I would guess its feature set, landscape mode and miltitouch [...]]]></description>
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