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	<title>tim o'brien photos &#187; itunes</title>
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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>Rotating Images on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/06/rotating-images-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I noted when I Bought My First iPhone App, there is no built-in way to totate images on the iPhone. Apple probably never thought of it because rotating images on the iPhone makes them quite small. It is both better and simpler just to swivel the iPhone itself depending on whether the image is landscape or portrait. On the other hand, what if you want to insert the image into an email or, in my case, a blog post? Landscape images come out sideways. Initially, to get around this, I needed to download the image onto your computer and rotate it there. What a pain! Managing all those downloaded images and then getting them onto the blog or into email is just unnecessary. There is a $0.99 app on the iPhone that does this one thing and does it well. It rotates images. Called Photo Rotate, this well-named app from Andrew Bednarz does an elegant job. The interface is simple and well laid out. In the current release, you can choose both clockwise and counterclockwise rotation as well as horizontal or vertical flips. Although the font could be a bit bigger, the light-on-dark color scheme and the simple, uncluttered [...]]]></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>iTunes: Easy on the Ears, Hard on the Eyes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/itunes-easy-on-the-ears-hard-on-the-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has worked hard to make progress towards giving blind people access to the iPod system. The big move for Apple is the 4th generation iPod nano, which offers spoken menus and large font with high contrast screen and backlight. Unfortunately for me, this came out just before my last iPod upgrade. Apple paired this with improved accessibility in iTunes. Accessibility in iTunes 8: iTunes 8 is screen-reader friendly. On a Mac using Mac OS X Leopard, it’s compatible with VoiceOver; on a PC using Windows XP or Windows Vista, it’s compatible with GW-Micro Window-Eyes 7.0. Sadly, Apple focused solely on screen reader integration. Since I am not a big screen reader user, this has done nothing for me. iTunes violates afew basic accessibility principles in terms of readability. Most impartiality, it does not offer a large enough font option. iTunes offers two font choices, but both are too small to read easily. The next problem is the elegant, but low contrast color scheme. Lstly, the built in iTunes Store uses even smaller font, as you can see in the screen shot. Unfortunately, there is no easy work around. A magnifying program can be useful. I just keep my reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweetie Access on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/tweetie-access-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my earlier review of free Twitter apps on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone, a reader suggested I check out his favorite Twitter app, Tweetie. Tweetie is a feature-rich Twitter app that has added a couple of valuable accessibility features in its latest release, making Tweetie worth the $2.99 price tag. [Caveat Emptor: I used a free promo code to download this app fro review.] Tweetie now has both themes and font choice. The large font choice is reasonably large (you can also choose small and medium). One of the theme choices is a very accessible light-on-dark. Between these two features, I find Tweetie sufficiently easy to use. There are a couple of changes that would make the app more accessible. Landscape mode, combined with a giant font option, would make Tweetie even easier to read. The theme only covers the main page. Tapping to a single tweet page reverts to the normal white-on-black color scheme. Overall, Tweetie is now my default choice for Twittering on my iPod Touch. Besides the ease of reading, Tweetie also allows me to keep track of both the Twitter accounts I run, oberazzi, for this blog, and BlindPhotogs, for the Blind Photographers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the iPhone App Store</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/accesding-iphone-app-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frustrating apps on the iPhone, from a readability point of view, is the App Store itself. Like it iTunes counterpart, the store uses unnecessarily tiny font.There is no workaround. You can&#8217;t zoom. You can&#8217;t go landscape. There is no font setting. You can&#8217;t even go to the mobile web site version of the App Store. It does not exist. So finding apps is hard. Identifying features is hard. Seeing the price is near impossible. I need to get out a dome magnifier and my low vision glassed just to guess at a few words. It is much better, where and when possible, to find good apps using Google. You can then just search for the name and download the app without reading any details. It makes little sense to me. I think that landscape mode is disabled since screen shots are shown in portrait. Still, that is not a good enough reason. I can come up with no rationale for using such a tiny font without zoom. Zoom is one of the iPhone signature features. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of [...]]]></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>
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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>Dialing by Ear on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/ihear-diale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred&#8217;s Head blog just posted about Sight-Free Dialing with the iPhone. This caught my attention and brought me to the iHear Dialer app from KayZee Solutions. This is a great new accessibility app for the iPhone. iHear Dialer allows you to dial phone numbers without looking at the keypad. As you move your hand around on the keypad, the dialer will tell you what number your finger is on and when you want that number, just release your finger! It was created with blind and visually impaired users in mind, but it’s also great for anyone to dial a number without looking. It attempts to increase the accessibility of the iPhone. iHear Dialer not only allows users to dial phone numbers without looking at the keypad, but has several other good features. There are two voices, male and female. The app remembers the last half dozen numbers dialed. All in one easy package and all for $0.99. As I only have the Touch, I can&#8217;t evaluate this app personally. Fortunately, there is an online video demonstration. iHear Dialer is available on iTunes and on the App Store. Read more about iPhone accessibility here. If you find this post useful or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Accessible iPhone App Developer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I wrote about the first accessible iPhone app. BigNames, a large print, high contrast contacts directory app, is due for a review upon its upcoming update release, when it will be available for the Touch. I asked the developer, Jason Moore,  to share a little about himself and developing accessible apps fro the iPhone.  Jason has graciously accepted my request and I have his answers for us here. The Interview Tell us a bit about yourself and your apps. I&#8217;m an interface designer, tinkerer and entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada. BigNames is my first iPhone application, and is designed to make it easy to browse and call people in your address book. What prompted you do become an iPhone app developer? Three reasons: First, I loved how the iPhone was essentially a blank slate. It comes with some excellent interface elements (e.g. wonderfully realistic scrolling views) but you can also break new ground and write your own components. Second, I was impressed that the App Store allowed developers to distribute applications globally and be compensated for their efforts. And third, I was coveting the iPhone and becoming a developer seemed like a good excuse to pick one up. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing WritePad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Accessing the Eyechart App</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often, I browse iPhone&#8217;s app store looking for programs that are useful, interesting and, best of all, free. Very occasionally, I run across an app that may not be useful, but does seem interesting. It is usually the other way around, useful but not very interesting. Recently, I came across the EyeChart app.this app is just what it says it is, an eye chart. according to its help file, you can use this app to test someone&#8217;s vision. Holding the iPhone about 4 feet from the the smallest line of subject can read will tell you how good or bad subjects vision is from 20/20 to 20/200. EyeChart v1.0 for iPhone (free): A Snellen Eye Chart is an eye chart used by eye care professionals and others to measure visual acuity. Snellen charts are named after the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen who developed the chart in 1862. While the classic Snellen chart is typically placed at 20&#8242; or 6m, pocket-sized versions such as this one can provide useful screens for rough visual acuity. I can&#8217;t attest to the program&#8217;s accuracy I do suspect that a trip to your eye doctor will get you better results. Regardless, this app [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Twitter from the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/accessing-twitter-from-the-iphone/</link>
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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>Great Video Tutorials for Lightroom</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/great-video-tutorials-for-lightroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Digital Photography Connection offers weekly video podcast on the use of Adobe Lightroom, which I use to manage and edit photos. Lightroom for Digital Photographers shows you great tips. Welcome to our weekly Lightroom for Digital Photographers Podcast. Did you know that Lightroom for Digital Photographers is one of the top ranked podcast in the Apple iTunes Store? The lastest videos are shown first. A recent episode, Softening Skin in Lightroom 2, really clued me in on one of the new Lightroom features. Not only was I unaware of the Clarity control, but I did not know how to select more than one spot at a time. A new tool was added to Lightroom 2 that allows you to easily soften skin. The use of negative clarity combined with the adjustment brush is a winning combination as you&#8217;ll see in this video. These tutorials run anywhere from five minutes to just over twenty. Since I have not wanted to slog through an actual how-to guide (with those hard-to-read fonts), LFDP has been a great way to learn Lightroom. I have always been a hands-on, read-the-manual-later person. I always have Lightroom open while watching the tutorials, pausing to try things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Full Browser</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/iphone-full-browser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On every digital device, some piece of the screen is almost always lost to toolbars. Windows has its Task Bar. Each individual software has its title bar up top, usually following by the main menu bar. The iPhone&#8217;s browser has the same issues. As you can see on the right, a portion of the top and bottom of the small iPhone. The problem is exacerbated by using the iPhone in landscape mode, which is a key mode for iPhone accessibility. There is a nifty little app, simply called Full Browser, which addresses this issue for 99 cents. Simply put, this device saves space. For a visually impaired user zooming into the text while in landscape mode, this makes a big difference. According the developers, forty percent of the screen&#8217;s space is saved. Browse the web free from clutter! The Full Screen Web Browser from SOPODS is a true full-screen web browser available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This app gives you up to 40% of your screen&#8217;s real estate back by hiding the buttons, address and even the status bar when you don&#8217;t need them. Now you can take full advantage of the ample screen on your iPhone or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on the Go: Accessing the iPhone WordPress App</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/blogging-on-the-go-accessing-the-iphone-wordpress-app/</link>
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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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