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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>Sight of Emotion Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, though I know that they put on an exhibit in Cardiff last fall. The gallery has some nice images. Check it out. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Sensory Photography: Exhibit and SlideshowBlind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind PhotographyBlind Visitors Photography Project @ Victoria and Albert Museumblind photographersThe Seeing My Images Project]]></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>Call for Entries: accelerate A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on the Talking Books Librarian post, there is a &#8220;Cool contest for young artists living with disabilities&#8220;. 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 $20,000. The exhibition is open to artists ages 16–25 living in the United States who have a physical, cognitive, mental, or sensory disability. Starting from zero, ideas take shape, momentum builds, creativity gathers speed, and a new work of art is created. How does art propel your success and provide you freedom of expression? As an artist, what sets you in motion—and how do you fuel your imagination? Describe your artistic journey and how disability might shape your creative process. Define how you measure success both artistically and within your career pathway. Share with us your work that will launch you to the next level. You can accelerate your development by giving yourself a fresh set of challenges, or the same set viewed from a different angle, every day. Explore a different path—if it’s a dead end, explore another. — Paul Foxton We are interested in [...]]]></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>Burgeoning Market for Intermediate Accessibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 wheelchairs. Disability, however pejorative that term may be, is not binary. People are not either totally &#8216;able&#8217; or completely &#8216;disabled&#8217;. Disability involves a complex continuum of ability, so accessibility needs to be addressed along a scale as well. Designers of accessible items for the blind need to ask more than if their product works for the profoundly blind, but how well users with all levels of vision can handle their product. Why is this relevant? With the graying of the baby boomers, demographics is giving us a huge and fairly well-off market of people with all levels of abilities and disabilities. Products need to be and are being redesigned to deal with stiff fingers, poor sight, minor forgetfulness and all the other discomforts that accompany the passing of years. There have always been products for this market, but they have not been well-designed. The market has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible Guns (by Prescription Only)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Thanks to the Second Amendment, even the elderly have the right to keep and bear arms. The problem is that many of the guns out there are a bit unwieldy for an older person to handle. However, the inventors of the Palm Pistol are planning to change all that with a weapon that is ideal for both the elderly and the physically disabled. In a statement submitted to Medgadget, the manufacturer, Constitution Arms, has revealed the following: &#8216;We thought you might be interested to learn that the FDA has completed its &#8220;Device/Not a Device&#8221; determination and concluded the handgun will be listed as a Class I Medical Device.&#8217; Physicians will be able to prescribe the Palm Pistol for qualified patients who may seek reimbursement through Medicare or private health insurance companies.&#8221; What is next, guns for people like me (i.e. guns for the blind)? Our society has a lot of resources to spend improving the lives of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A DAB Hand</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/a-dab-hand-a-website-bringing-disabled-and-able-bodied-photographers-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, I heard about and joined this UK-based website, DAB Photography Online &#8211; 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. Now that I have had a chance to take a deeper look, I find an important, though subtle difference. Flickr is primarily a photo-sharing site. The groups, comments and discussions add to Flickr&#8217;s value, but it is designed to host and organize lots and lots of its members&#8217; photos. DAB, on the other hand, is not about hosting photos. The main focus at DAB is the discussion forums, where individual photos can be posted, discussed and dissected. All the photos posted, however, are hosted over on Flickr, on Photobucket or some other photo-sharing site. DAB has some other features, besides the forums, such as a blog service and some articles, but these are very secondary to the discussions. So far, the DAB folks have been very welcoming and shared some nice thoughts on the photos I have posted. So far as I have noticed, the level [...]]]></description>
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