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		<title>Accessible Firefox: A Collection of Accessibility Add-ons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding accessibility add-ons for Firefox can be tricky. There is no add-on category for accessibility. Different searches yield different add-one. I have blogged about my favorite add-ons, but not everyone reads this blog. So I have put together all the accessibility related add-ons that I use inot one &#8216;collection&#8216;, a new way to group add-ons on the official Firefox add-on site. This new collection, Accessible Firefox: Accessibility Add-ons, includes Noise, NoSquint, Accessibar and Image Zoom. You can read more about these add-ons and other internet accessibility tips on my Web Access page. Apparently, I was not the first person to think of this. There is the Low Vision collection and the Firefox Accessibility Add-ons collection as well. If you have suggestions, please share. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Access the Web!Scroll Wheel Image ZoomFirefox ThemesAccess Firefox: Because the Internet is for everyone.Image Zoom : Firefox Add-on]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the New Kindle DX</title>
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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>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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		<title>Scroll Wheel Image Zoom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Zoom is one of my favorite Firefox accessibility extensions. In Access the Web!, I extolled the virtues of this little program. Image Zooma allows you to zoom an image in and out while it stays in place. There is no need to open it up in another window or to download it. Image Zoom inserts an option onto the context (right-click) menu where you can select the right level of zoom. Image Zoom has another very cool new feature, Scroll Wheel Zooming. While holding the right mouse button down, you can zoom in and out with the scroll wheel on your mouse. If you have Image Zoom installed, you can test this out with the Image Zoom icon here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Image Zoom : Firefox Add-onAccess the Web!Accessible Firefox: A Collection of Accessibility Add-onsWeb AccessWeb Access]]></description>
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		<title>Access the Web!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no need to take the web as it comes. Fonts too small to read, color schemes that make you squint, bright white backgrounds that scream for you sunglasses, images too small to make out. These issues can be solved. You can take control. Changing colors, fonts and image size is no longer requires a degree in computer science. It takes more that a single click of the mouse, but it can be you can make your web experience. Many of the things I will say here are echoed in the AccessFirefox.org web site. While AccessFirefox.org attempts to be universal, I will highlight here just the few things I think you will need. The first is Firefox. If you are reading this in Microsoft&#8217;s default Internet Explorer or even in Apple&#8217;s Safari, download Firefox and install it now. Firefox, which is built by volunteers and is free, allows developers to build and distribute software add-ons that allow us to customize our web experience. With just t three of these add-ons, your web experience will be transformed and your sore eyes grateful. No Squint The No Squint add-on is my personal favorite. Once installed, this extension allows you to set [...]]]></description>
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