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		<title>GPS vs. Talking Lamp-Posts. Why we need a WikiAudioEyesGuide.Org</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/06/talking-lamp-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Twtter, Talking lamp-posts will help blind people find their way. IF YOU heard a lamp-post talking, you might think you were going mad. But speaking signs have been springing up to help blind and partially-sighted people. Newcastle is one of the first places in the UK to pilot the RNIB React Talking Sign System, which aims to help visually impaired folk get around. Speaker units can be fixed to lamp-posts on popular routes and are triggered by an electronic fob which users carry. When the speaker is activated, it tells the user where they are and what is around them, helping them decide where to go next. And it talks in a North East accent. This seems like a reasonable idea at first blush. But I think that building special lamp posts (or lamp-post add-on boxes) and installing them everywhere may be an inefficient way to give blind folks an automatic audible description of their location. There are several GPS devices designed to guide the blind right now. They can give turn-by-turn pedestrian directions from point A to point B, just like the one in your car does. Of course, these devices do not offer descriptions of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Bionic &#8211; A Telescope Inside the Eye</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/going-bionic-a-telescope-inside-the-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Slashdot , there is now a Bionic Eye Telescope To Treat Macular Degeneration. This visual aid actually goes inside the eye. It sounds a bit frightening, actually, but exciting at the same time. External vision aids are bulky, often uncomfortable and easy to lose or break. This one avoids all those issue. &#8220;A miniature telescope that fits inside the eye of someone with macular degeneration and helps them regain normal vision has been developed by a start-up company called VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies. Macular degeneration affects the center of the retina, making it difficult to read, watch television and recognize faces. The new device, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, works like a fixed telephoto lens within the eye, projecting a magnified image of whatever the wearer is looking at onto a large part of the peripheral retina. Magnifying the image on the eye allows the retinal cells outside the macula to participate, and enables a patient to recognize details using their peripheral vision. Clinical trials suggest that the device could improve vision by about three and a half lines on an eye chart. Last week, an advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Easy Access Mode: An App Idea</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/iphone-easy-access-mode-an-app-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=1718</guid>
		<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>Variable Speed Playback on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/variable-speed-playback-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=1543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Updated for iPhone 3.0 @ Accessing Audiobook Speed on iPhone 3.0] Speeding up a recording used to make it sound like Alvin &#38; the Chipmunks. Growing up, I had a cassette player for the blind that had a variable speed playback control. Being a kid, I used it mainly for entertainment value. Fun was had with friends making the narrators sound silly. Slide the bar up to get the fast, high-pitched tones of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Slide it down and you get slow, sonorous speech. I never used the cassette player much. It was more of a novelty. My sight was still good enough to read books without glasses even though I had to do it close up and with lots of eye strain and headaches. Those days are long over. Now I rely much more on audio books. I have never learned to get along well with the cassette players designed for the blind. Instead, I listen mostly to books that I get from audible.com. In the early days, I listen to these books on a variety of MP3 players. At some point, though, I settled on and have stuck with Apple&#8217;s iPods. I had an early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Slide Rule for Blind Touch Screen Users</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/a-new-slide-rule-for-blind-touch-screen-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As seen on Mac-ccessibility, there are some engineers at University of Washington&#8217;s AIM research group working a neat project to make mobile devices with touch screens, like the iPhone, more accessible to blind users. Slide Rule: Making Touch Screens Accessible to Blind Users Shaun K. Kane (iSchool), Jeffrey P. Bigham (CSE), and Jacob O. Wobbrock (iSchool) Exploring accessible one- and multi-finger interaction design for mobile and kiosk touch surfaces for visually impaired users and users without resources for visual attention They even have a YouTube video demonstration. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:No Screen Reader? No Problem! Go WebAnywhere.Tethering with a Portable DVD PlayerWatch the WCAG Theme SongModel-morphosis @ NYTimes.comBlio, A Better e-Reader?]]></description>
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		<title>Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/harvesting-a-crop-of-electronic-readers-nytimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s tech section reviews the state of e-book readers in A Walk Through a Crop of Electronic Readers. THE release this week of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has put electronic book readers in the spotlight. Its proponents celebrate the ability to store thousands of titles on a single lightweight device; the access to newspapers, magazines and blogs while on the go; and the ability, at the click of a button, to own one of hundreds of thousands of titles in seconds. I can&#8217;t add much more without having tested the devices myself. So I’ve come around on my opposition to e-book. Somewhat. With a device like the Kindle, I could see myself reading happily on the train and buying books instantly. Despite these added conveniences, I don’t think e-books will replace books anytime soon. It is probably time that these devices are compared from an accessibility point of view. Care to lend me one? If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing your Kindle on the iPhoneRead it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-SpeechBookshelf AccessBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageAccessing the New Kindle DX]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=2143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spotted today on Slashdot, Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. &#8220;The Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping last week, but Amazon surprised everyone late on March 3rd by placing the Amazon Kindle software for the iPhone in the Apple App Store. With the Whispersync technology you can now keep your Kindle and iPhone ebooks in sync and read everywhere you go. Readers on the iPhone also now get access to over 200,000 ebook titles on the Amazon Kindle storefront. Check out the hands-on image gallery and video of the Amazon Kindle software on the iPhone and Kindle 2.&#8221; via Slashdot &#124; Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. The Slashdot article links to a decent review of the new app and how it words. But how accessible is this new app? Being visually impaired makes me skeptical of reading on my iPod Touch. But it is not impossible, there are several decent e-book reader apps already on the iPhone platform, including the feature rich, but content poor, Stanza and the content rich, but accessibility poor, Shortcovers. My wife has a first generation Kindle, so I tapped into her account to test out the new Kindle app. The only accessibility feature the Kindle app [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Small Step Back for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/one-small-step-back-for-amazon-one-giant-leap-backwards-for-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Amazon announced that it was surrendering to the Author&#8217;s Guild &#8211; Amazon Backs off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle &#8211; Bits Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com. The new Talk To Me feature, a form of text to speech, in Amazon&#8217;s Kindle will be disabled at the whim of the publisher. How many publishers will not exercise the option to kill TTS? This will likely undo the biggest advance in accessible reading devices since the large print book. Therefore, we are modifying our systems so that rightsholders can decide on a title by title basis whether they want text-to-speech enabled or disabled for any particular title. We have already begun to work on the technical changes required to give authors and publishers that choice. With this new level of control, publishers and authors will be able to decide for themselves whether it is in their commercial interests to leave text-to-speech enabled. We believe many will decide that it is. If the publishers do choose to kill TTS, Amazon should enable this feature for the blind. They should partner with the NLS. Anyone who qualifies for the NLS&#8217; services should be able to register with Amazon for TTS enabled books. Somehow I do not [...]]]></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>Off-Topic: Syncing Google Contacts &amp; Calendar with your iPHone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep all my contact and calendar information on Google. Google is convenient, ubiquitous and easy to use. when I brought my new iPod Touch home, I was excited to set up my e-mail, contacts and calendar on the device. Setting up my e-mail went smoothly enough. The difficulty begin when I tried to sync my contacts and calendar. There was no easy way to do this. After searching the web a bit, I found a fairly complicated workaround. This trick involved syncing Google with Plaxo and then Plaxo with Outlook and Outlook with iTunes. It was a cranky process at best. Apparently, Google has now come to some kind of arrangement with Microsoft that allows you to sync your contacts and calendars between Google and your iPod. What does Microsoft have to do with it? I have no idea. It&#8217;s not really that important. Noy, you can Set Up Your iPhone or iPod Touch to do this quite easily. Google has posted some instructions that are quite easy to follow. I took about five minutes complete the whole process. It&#8217;s a Jacob a short while longer to complete the process. I believe there are ways to choose which of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible e-Reading: Google Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Google announced that its Book Search would be available for iPhone and other mobile device users. I like to read, so I thought I would see how it works and how accessible it is. I looked at another e-book reader, Stanza, in an earlier post, so I will look at the differences. As noted in the NY Times article on the accouncement, Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones, the key feature is the use of text rather than images. Unlike the version of Google Book Search for PCs, which displays scanned images of book pages, the mobile version simply displays text, allowing users to download printed material more quickly over wireless networks. [PC Workd also has a good summary of the announcment.] Google has done this for the same reason as Adobe does in its Reflow command, using text allows the text to be reformatted easily for different screens and devices. Using text has a great side benefit as well, making the text accessible to accessibility modifications and to screen readers. I have never been able to use Google Book Search on my computer since the images are not amenable to my color and font [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times, along with every other news source, is reporting on the new version of Amazon&#8217;s e-book reader, the Kindle.Buried among all the other changes is one important accessibility feature: text-to-speech. According to the Times: Giving Voice to the Kindle: The Kindle 2 also has text-to-speech built in. “Any book, blog, magazine or personal document can be read aloud,” Mr. Bezos said. Users can switch between reading text and hearing it read by a fairly computerized voice. “It’s very easy to go back and forth between reading and listening,” Mr. Bezos said I have tested out the first version, as my wife has the Kindle 1.0. With its adjustable font size set to the maximum, I can read the text fairly easily with my low vision reading glasses. I look forward to testing out the new text-to-speech feature when I find someone with the new version. The new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech offers two voices, male and female, and does not offer variable speed playback. I really like the variable spped playback on the iPod, though I wish it had more than three settings. We will have to wait on reviews of the reading quality, but Nuance, who provides the Kindle&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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