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 Sight of Emotion project displays hotography by blind and visually impaired people. AIM: To aid blind and visually impaired communities to create a dialogue with the seeing world, creating awareness and educating public audiences of the needs and experiences of the visually disabled. I do not know what the status of the project,...
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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, so...
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Spotted on the Talking Books Librarian post, there is a “Cool contest for young artists living with disabilities“. Accelerate, sponsored by VSA arts and Volkswagen of America, Inc., is an open juried exhibition for young disabled artists. The deadline for submissiotn is June 19, 2009. There are several prizes, including a Grand Prize of...
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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...
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I strongly believe that there is a burgeoning market for what might be called intermediate accessibility in product design. Too often, the term accessibility is related only to those with profound lack of access. When we think of people in need of accessibility, we think of the profoundly deaf or blind and those restricted...
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I am all for making all products more accessible. Sometimes, though, you have to laugh (or cry). Scanning Slashdot for the latest news in technology and science, I ran across this article on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled: Repton writes “Thanks to the Second Amendment, even the elderly have the right to...
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Not long ago, I heard about and joined this UK-based website, DAB Photography Online – Bringing Disabled and Able-Bodied Photographers Together. I have spent some time over the last week learning to navigate the site and to post to it. At first, I though it might replicate much of what Flickr does for me....
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