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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>Accessing the New Kindle DX</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/new-kindle-dx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I garnered some First Impressions of the New Kindle DX from the NYTimes&#8217;s Gadgetwise Blog. According to the post, the new Kindle DX&#8216;s main feature is its larger size. The DX has a 9.7-inch display, which the company says is 2 1/2 times the size of the Kindle 2. But the device doesn’t feel or look as large as a sheet of copier paper. It won’t give you the feeling of reading an entire page of a newspaper. You read the paper by flipping through it, article by article. With a price tag just south of $500, this e-book reader ought to have some bang for these big bucks. The larger screen is great, but what does this mean for the visually impaired? The Kindle already comes with a hobbled text to speech function and a narrow choic of font sizes. Rumors have it that Amazon engineers are looking at adding an audio interface option. Digging a little deeper on the Kindle DX s web site, I found a list of the DX&#8217;s fetures that might be useful for the visually imapired. Auto-Rotating Screen By simply turning the device, you can immediately see full-width landscape views of maps, graphs, tables [...]]]></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>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 EasyWriter: iPhone App Accessibility Review</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/accessing-easywriter-iphone-app-accessibility-review/</link>
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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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		<title>Stanza &#8211; Accessible E-Book Reader for the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/11/stanza-accessible-e-book-reader-for-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scanning through the Personal Tech section of the Times, I bumped into an interesting tidbit, &#8220;Tip of the Week &#8211; Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8220;. I have an iPod Touch (the iPhone sans phone), so I ws intrigued, though remaining skeptical, by this tip. I just downloaded the app, Stanza, to my iPod and fell in love. On a technical level, it is a perfect application of accessibility for a visually impaired user.To the right, you can see a piece of the settings screen for Stanza. The app is highly, helpfully and eassily adjustable. The font sizes can be adjusted with a very wide range. You can select font and background colors with a wide selection of choices, not just a simple reverse color scheme option. Font size can be adjusted on a simple slide bar. All these changes are reflected immediately in the sample text window at the top. Even line spacing in adjustable. The screen rotates with the iPod, so you can read it wide screen with all its advantages. Pages can be turned with a simple flick on the screen. Best of all, it retains your choice of settings. I could not be happier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Alternative Google Color Schemes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/08/alternative-google-color-schemes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my earlier post about the lack of accessible Vista themes and my current feelings on standard internet color schemes, I posted the following to the accessible Google Group: Alternative Google Color Schemes &#8211; accessible &#124; Google Groups&#60; For the visually impaired, Google&#8217;s (as well as MS and most websites) color scheme is downright bad. Does Google have or could it develop an alternative accessible co or scheme? Not only should it be high contrast, but also light-on-dark. For me, I like yellow-on-black. Firefox and IE allow users to impose color schemes while browsing, but this method changes all text and background to the same two colors. This ruins the full use of each page. For example, in Gmail, the star feature becomes useless.For another, regular text and hyperlinks become indistinguishable. So this solution is only partial. This remains true for other websites and for Windows as well. Both Vista and XP have high-contrast color schemes, but there are both aesthetically unappealing (Visually impaired does not equal aesthetically unaware) and more problematic then helpful. Is this something that Google could/will implement? Is this something a third-party could do well? There are some third party tools (e.g. Firefox&#8217;s Accessibar), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Accessible Windows Vista Themes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/07/accessible-windows-vista-themes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I noted in the last post, I have just moved to a Windows Vista machine. I have spent the last few days looking for a decent theme with large fonts and good light-on-dark contrast. There are none! The Windows high contrast themes, besides being hideous, do not have large text. To check these out, you can either right-click on the desktop and select &#8216;Personalize&#8216; and then to &#8216;Windows Colors and Appearance&#8216; or go to the &#8216;Ease of Access Center&#8216; Control Panel and then to &#8216;Set Up High Contrast&#8216;. Either way, you are stuck with an ugly interface with the small font. The &#8216;Ease of Access Center&#8216; has an option for changing something called DPI to make the font easier to read, but that only goes so far. I checked out the trial version of WindowBlinds, but I could not easily find any accessible themes. After a frustrating few minutes with the software, I sent an email to the company who sells it, asking them if WindowBlinds offeres any accessible themes. In the end, I spent a good chunk of time adjusting all the color and font settings in the &#8216;Windows Colors and Appearance&#8216; panel. After a few mistakes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zooming in the new IE</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2007/09/zooming-in-the-new-ie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first, I did not like the new Internet Explorer (IE). It buried the accessibility options I like most (text size and ignore colors specified on webpages). There is one new redeeming feature, the new zoom. Zoom does what it says. Just like zooming in and out with your camera, zoom lets you magnify websites at any level of magnification you desire. I usually keep it between 125% and 200%, but it depends on the website. Very useful. Unlike text size, zoom works on all web pages. The only downside is that many pages will extend eve further off the right side of the screen. The solution for that has been to get a wide-screen monitor. Zoom&#8217;s official home is under the Pages menu right about my other favorite, text size.The excellent news is that there are two easier ways to access it. First, the bottom right corner of the IE window has a &#8220;change zoom level&#8221; drop down menu. Even better are the keyboard controls; Ctrl-+ to zoom in and Ctrl&#8211; to zoom out. Time to zoom away. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Call for Accessible Windows Vista [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pogueâ€™s Posts &#8211; As We Get Older, Type Gets Smaller &#8211; Technology &#8211; New York Times Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2006/08/pogue%e2%80%99s-posts-as-we-get-older-type-gets-smaller-technology-new-york-times-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pogue&#8217;s post this past week, As We Get Older, Type Gets Smaller, addresses a major issue that I think about too much. I reset the screen resolution, override default fonts and sometimes use Zoomtext. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Finally, Pogue Speaks to USPogue Asks: Why Are PDFs Still in Portrait Orientation?On the Side: Inaccessible accessibilityAccessibility SwitchNYT&#8217;s Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass]]></description>
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		<title>Response on Cell Phone High-Contrast Color Schemes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2006/04/response-on-cell-phon-high-contrast-color-schemes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a response form Verizon (who obviously did not read my initial message carefully) which just blew me off. Here is the response and my response: As I said in the original message, I had difficulty testing each phone in the store. First, the store&#8217;s inventory did not match the online store&#8217;s inventory. Second, I was unable to turn on many models. Lastly, it was not easy to search for the correct font/display.color/theme settings on each phone that I could turn on since I am legally blind. Can you at least suggest it to Verizon&#8217;s accessibility team that they (1) test each phone for high-contrast color scheme options and publish the results and (2) they suggest /require the suppliers to add high-contrast color scheme options if they do not already have them? Thank you. On 4/27/06, Verizon Wireless Customer Service S - Hide quoted text - wrote: Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our website. I appreciate your inquiry regarding starting service with Verizon Wireless. My name is Desmond, and I am happy to assist you today. Unfortunately, I am unable to inform you which handsets have the contrast capabilities you are in need of because I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-contrast Cell Phones</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2006/04/high-contrast-cell-phones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am looking at getting a new cell phone. I don&#8217;t need a fully voice-controlled, phone, but I would like one where the text is large and easy to read. I am having a hard time finding one. Companies do not advertise high contrast text settings, even if they have them. My wife and I are currently planning to leave our current cell phone provider and are strongly considering Verizon. The main issue is that I am legally blind with partial sight. I don&#8217;t need the text-to-speech features of the LG VX 4500. I need a phone with a clearly legible text where the font color contrasts sharply with the background color (black on white, white 0r yellow on black, etc). I went to a Verizon store to check the phones, but it was not possible to check many phone (the stores inventory did not match the website, many of the phone on display could not be turned on and it was not easy to check the Display Settings of the phones that were on). Is there a way to find out which phones have high-contrast color themes? The only one I could find is the CDM 8945, but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Font Size in Balloons</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2006/03/font-size-in-balloons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2006/03/font-size-in-balloons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC Magazine has a tip on dealing with Font Size in Balloons. This should help you resize the font in those little comment balloons in Word. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Firefox Tip: Increase Font SizeInternet Explorer: Increasing Font SizeNYT&#8217;s Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying GlassIncreasing Font SizeFormatting multiple equations in Word]]></description>
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		<title>Formatting multiple equations in Word</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2005/09/formatting-multiple-equations-in-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried to change the font in a MS Word document full of equations? It does not work. Well, it works for the text, but not for the equations. To adjust the equations, you have to open each one individually, which is a complete waste of a lot of time. I bumped into this problem over the past week. Luckily, I found a solution. MathType, the big sibling of MS Word&#8217;s Equation Editor, does the job. MathType, however, does require a financial outlay unless you are satisfied with the 30-day trial. Happy equation editing! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:LaTeX: Changing the Font SizeFirefox vs. Internet Explorer: AccessibilityMy iPod WishlistPogue Asks: Why Are PDFs Still in Portrait Orientation?Flickr: Blind Photographers]]></description>
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		<title>Let Users Control Font Size (Alertbox Aug. 2002)</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2005/04/let-users-control-font-size-alertbox-aug-2002/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jakob Nielsen, a &#8216;crusader&#8217; for web usability, wrote a plea,Let Users Control Font Size (Alertbox Aug. 2002), a few years ago. In this article, Nielsen articulates an idea that I have been percolating for a long time. From his column, Consider adding a button that loads an alternate style sheet with really big font sizes if most of your site&#8217;s visitors are senior citizens or low-vision users. Few users know how to find or use the built-in font size feature in current browsers, and adding such a button within your pages will help users easily increase text size. I think that we need to expand upon this idea. Not only should every browser should come with a &#8216;large print&#8216; style sheet and an easy-to-find button to load it, but every computer should have an easy-to-find icon on the desktop that will reset the Appearance setting to a larger font, higher contrast (but still visually appalling) setting. Computers at kiosks and in school computer labs and even ATM machines should be reuired to have these &#8216;large print&#8216; icons. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Increasing Font SizeAccessibility SwitchFirefox Tip: Increase Font [...]]]></description>
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