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		<title>Accessible iTunes: A Truly Large Font</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/02/itunes-font-hack/</link>
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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>iPhone as Accessible Pocket Watch</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/06/iphone-as-accessible-pocket-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more, I am finding myself using my iPod Touch as a pocket watch. For those times my watch is not handy, but my iPod is (which is surprisingly often), I find that I turn to it to check to the time. The font is just large enough that I do not need to read it with glasses. At night, I used to have to lift my alarm clock up to my face to read the time. Yes, I should get a large print clock, but they do not have great alarm or radio settings. My iPod Touch, though, is usually recharging right next to the clock. It is smaller, unencumbered by wires and I can also check my email if I am unlikely to fall back asleep quickly. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. PS My iPod wallpaper is a photo I took of our dog, Hero, sitting on a large rock in a local dog park. She does not usually drool! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock AppWeather Access on the iPhoneGiant Fonts for iPhone MailAccessing your Kindle on the iPhoneAccessing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Wikipedia on the iPhone: Wikipanion Accessiility</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/accessing-wikipedia-on-the-iphone-wikipanion-accessiility/</link>
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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>Access Facebook on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/access-facebook-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook, despite its ubiquity, has naver been very accessible. The pages are densely cluttered with an overload of information. Since the company is not doing much about it, there is now a Facebook Accessibility project going on at the volunteer developer group, Project Possibility. But I digress. Facebook has developed a free app, Facebook for iPhone, that brings most of Facebook&#8217;s functionality to the iPhone. Unfortunately, it also brings the lack of accessibility. There is no zoom, no landacape mode, no adjustable font, etc. The app packs as much as it can onto the tiny screen, keeping its big brother&#8217;s cluttered look. For me, the color sheme is particularly bad with its blue and white theme. There are alternatives. Facebook&#8217;s iPhone web site, with its sister page,Facebook&#8217;s mobile web site, offer one advantage, landscape mode. They don&#8217;t pack the same punch as the app and don&#8217;t have the same polish, but landscape mode makes them easier to read. The Facebook for iPhone app is available at the iTunes App Store or on the iPhone. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:new face for tim [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>BigNames: The First Accessible iPhone App.</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/bignames-the-first-accessible-iphone-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is hope! A few days ago, an email popped into my inbox about a new iPhone App. BigNames has been developed with accessibility in mnd. This is a first. BigNames is a contact app for the iPhone.  &#8220;BigNames displays your iPhone contacts extra-large and easy to read. Perfect for when you&#8217;re on the move and need to make a call without squinting.&#8221; Designed as a dialer program, it is not currently available on the iPod Touch. So I can&#8217;t do a full review yet, despite my enthusiasm. BigNames has great accessibility features, making it very easy to read. Accessing the built in contacts directory, BigNames displays your contacts in a large font with an light-on-bloack color shceme. The app swivels back and form between landscape (with a larger font) and porrtait mode. The developers have promised to look into making the app Touch firiendly. I may not make phone calls on my iPod, but send emails and need to check addresses and phone numbers from my contact list . You can find BigNames in the iPhone App Store. Visit the App Store (launches iTunes) Read more about iPhone Access here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giant Fonts for iPhone Mail</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/iphone-mail-font/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone Mail app offers an adjustable minimum font size. It is not obvious how to access this setting. Apple buried this feature in the Settings app and can not be accessed from the Mail app itself. From the home screen, tap on the Settings app. Then tap on the Mail, Contacts &#38; Calendars tab. From there you can selcet the font size. The options run from small to giant, though I do thot think that Apple uses the same dictionary that I do. Regardless, the size variation makes a significant difference in the readability of email messages. The settings also controls minimum font sizes in the Calendar and Contacts apps.  Multitouch zoom functions in Mail, so you can zoom in when the Giant font is not large enough. For, I also need to zoom in. Unfortunately, Calendar and Contacts do not allow zoom. None of these apps allow landscape mode either, which could also increase readability. As you can see with these two screen shots,small is much smaller than giant. You can also see that giant is already pretty small. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT&#8217;s Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lst week, the Gadgetwise Blogat the NY Times offered this Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass. Tired of squinting at tiny type the screen all day? In Windows Vista, you can bump up the font size — right-click on the desktop, select Personalize and click on “Adjust font size.” Once the “DPI Scaling” window comes up (probably after a Vista security alert), select the larger “120 dpi” setting and click OK. Illustrated instructions are here. On a Mac OS X Leopard system, you can increase the size of type on desktop icons by going to the View menu to Show View Options; the text size controls are there. Mac users can zoom in on the screen by pressing the Option-Command-plus (+) keys; pressing Command-Option-minus (-) zooms out. Pressing the Command key and either the plus or minus keys increases the size of the text in certain Mac programs like Mail and Safari. It&#8217;s very useful. I did it myself as soon as I brought my new Vista machine in the house last year. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Simple Computer Access Tip: Use a Black BackgroundFirefox Tip: Increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing iPhone Maps: Accessibility of the iPhone Maps App</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps is a great thing. There is no question about it. But it is not perfect. Surprisingly, it suffers from the same gripe I have with map books and atlases. I can not read the print. It is simply too small, no matter how much you zoom in. This is true both on a computer and on an iPhone. On a PC, the proper balance of Full page and text zoom can help, but there is no similar solution on the iPhone. As you can see here, no matter how much I zoom into Chapel Hill in the iPhone&#8217;s Maps app, the text size stays tiny. The screen stays uncluttered, but I am still lost. How could this be fixed? One option is to to allow for adjustable font sizes. If a cluttered map with overlapping text a serious issue, how about some kind of pop-up box when a street is tapped? There must be a creative solution out there. Google just needs to find and implement it. Until then, iPhone maps are just some pretty pictures for me. Hmmm&#8230; That last sentence gave me an idea for a workaround. Screenshots, where you take a picture of what is [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>Petition to Make the Kindle Fully Accessible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A peeition to Make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible has been started. We, the undersigned, ask Amazon Technologies, Inc., and its affiliates, to modify the new Kindle 2, and add the ability to have all menu choices spoken with voice prompts, so that all blind and sighted individuals may purchase, and make full use of this innovative product. Amazon could really extend the text-to-speech function with variable speed playback. The Kindle could also use an audio interface for the profoundly blind. The scalable font size could have larger options. I, for one, would appreciage an inberted colors scheme with light font on a darck background. Some of these features would be easier than others for Amazon to implement. But they won&#8217;t implement any without understanding the need. Help them. Sign the petition. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Kindle&#8217;s Crystal Ball: Accessible NavigationBookshelf AccessKindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB&#8217;s BlogRead it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-SpeechCOAT Petition: Access to Technology Legislation]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone App Accessibility: Quixotic Quest?</title>
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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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		<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>
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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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