Posts Tagged ‘ iphone ’

Yesterday’s post on iPhone zooming gave me an idea for an interesting zoom feature for Firefox. Since I am no programmer, I thought I would trhow it out there and hope the idea catches on. The idea is based on a neat iPhone zoom feature. As I noted yesterday, if you double tap on...
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The NY Times offere a great iPhone (or iPod Touch) trick in their Tip of the Week: Easier iPhone Zooming: While the iPhone’s Safari Web browser can bring the full versions of most sites right to the palm of your hand, it can be a pain to pinch and spread your fingers all over...
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I have updated my review of Stanza, an iPhone e-book reader app. Stanza came out with a new and improved version. Plus, I finally figured out how to do screen shots on my iPod Touch. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a...
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The Mobile Manufacturers Forum has a new web site devoted to Mobile Accessibility. The Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI) project was developed to provide a central information source to learn about accessibility in mobile devices. On this website you can learn about the various features that a phone may have and link through to...
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Reading up on iPhone accessibility on the web, I ran across a blog post, Apple blind to iPhone accessibility?, on Ouch, thee BBC’s quirky and lively disability community. The post put me in mind of my recent post, De Facto Foolishness. We both discuss the hostility on the internet towards discussions of making Apples’s...
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Prompted by the , I have been writing a series of posts on making the iPhone easier to use visually; and . What I call intermediate accessibility, what the NY Times calls ease of use in For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology, is accessibility for those with some functional sight. Instead of focusing...
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I am on the hunt for accessible iPhone apps. By accessible, I mean those easier to use for those of us with limited vision. Unfortunately, for now, profoundly blind users are out of luck when it comes to the iPhone. Still, you might think that the tiny screen on the iPhone is just too...
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A while back, the NY Times ran an article, For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology, which call the iPod easy to use. An obvious success story is Apple; its iPod line is easy to use and stylish, and its appeal crosses generations. Apple retail stores are clean, sleek and inviting. Older people enjoy...
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No, I am not talking about your TV. Instead, I am thinking of both your computer monitor and your iPhone. For the visually impaired, wide is the way to go. When you need to enlarge text or zoom in on a regular basis, a wider screen is better than a square or tall one....
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Yesterday, I posted about the new design for a tactile interface for the iPhone. While getting my thoughts together to write the post, I read and responded to the comments on Yanko Design article where I first read about this iPhone case. Some of the comments were, in my opinion, insensitive on the issue...
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Twitter directed me to a post on Yanko Design which led me to this neat discovery, an accessible tactile case for the iPhone and iPod Touch. From the designer: invisual – a tactile Silicone case for the Apple iPhone 13 November, 2008 used with an app store application, designed in mind, for the Blind...
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Scanning through the Personal Tech section of the Times, I bumped into an interesting tidbit, “Tip of the Week – Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book – NYTimes.com“. 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...
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