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		<title>Weather Access on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call me crazy. I carry my own meteorologist around in my pocket. I check the temperature, outdoor conditions and the forecast several times a day. I guess I am crazy. But the iPhone&#8217;s Weather App is a great personal meteorologist. Well designed,, it lays out lots of information in a simple, easy to read format. Using images instead of text, the forecast and current conditions are easy and quick to see. The dark background adds not only to the aesthetics, but makes it much more accessible as well. Weather lacks two important accessibility features, zoom and landscape mode. I understand why the develops did not find this necessary, but I do not see how enabling them would hurt. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing the iPhone CalendarAccessing the iPhone App StoreAccessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock AppAccessing the NY Times, iPhone EditioniPhone as Accessible Pocket Watch]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Google Talk on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s iPhone app brings most of Google&#8217;s many applications under one roof. It refers most features to that application&#8217;s mobile web site. Google Talk is one of these applications. Since my wife and I are one of those couples that instant message each from one room to the other, I wanted to test this out on my iPod Touch. As simple as it is to start up a conversation in Google Talk, it is not very easy to use from an accessibility vantage. The one saving grace is that landscape mode is available of mobile web sites. Otherwise, Talk is just too hard to use. The main stumbling block is the tiny font size. Without zoom, there is way to read this Talk&#8217;s minuscule font. Added to the mix is Google&#8217;s signature color scheme. While elgant, it is the mix of blue and white does not offer sufficient contrast. Google Talk is available via the Google Talk mobile web site or through the Google Mobile App for your iPhone, available on the iPhone or in the iTunes App Store. 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>Feeds on the Go: Accessing Google Reader on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To keep track of all the blogs I like to follow, I use Google Reader. It has a nice clean interface and works in any browser from anywhere. So, I naturally wanted to check this out for the iPhone. Like most of Google&#8217;s online applications, access to Google Reader is through its mobile web site on the iPhone&#8217;s built-in browser. The iPhone browser allows landscape mode for any site, so Google Reader has that accessibility feature. Unfortunately, that is the only accessibility y feature the program has. For some reason, mobile web sites tend to disable the multi-touch zoom that is the iPhone&#8217;s big accessibility advantage. Google Reader also sticks with Google&#8217;s elegant, but low contrast, color scheme. It is useable, but zoom would make it that much better. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing Google Talk on the iPhoneAccessing the iPhone CalendarAccessible e-Reading: Google BooksAccessing the iPhone App StoreAccessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock App]]></description>
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		<title>Tweetie Access on the iPhone</title>
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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>Access Facebook on the iPhone</title>
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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>
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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>iPhone 3.0 Accessibility Preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple previewed the upcoming summer release of the next iteration of its iPhone platform today. A small portion of these features have been documented on the web at the iPhone OS 3.0 Preview.How will iPhone OS 3.0 affect iPhone accessibility? To be honest, it is way too soon to say. Apple&#8217;s show today highlighted only a few of the new features and accessibility was not on the agenda.  However, digging a little deeper, I found a few nuggests. More Landscape Mode Landscape mode is a key accessibility feature for the iPhone. A wider screen allows a larger font while maintaining readability. This summer , we will be able to &#8220;(r)ead and compose email and text messages in landscape&#8221; on the iPhone. This is an important first step. Hopefully app developers will follow where Apple is leading. Accessories &#8220;Using the new External Accessory framework, your application can now communicate with &#8220;Made for iPod&#8221; hardware accessories attached to iPhone or iPod touch through either the 30-pin dock connector or wirelessly using Bluetooth.&#8220; This option opens up a market for disability accessories. For example, an external camera combined with the right app could turn the iPhone into a portable magnifier. This could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giant Fonts for iPhone Mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Lobbying iPhone Developers for More Accessibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been pointed out to me that an effort to convince the iPhone developer community to embrace accessible design may have more fruitful approaches. Specifically, I have been told that it would be more effective to lobby Apple as well as individual app developers. I have already started lobbying Apple. They have an accessibility page for their products and make available a contact point on these issues. I regularly send my thoughts to them. Usually, they reply that my message has been forwarded to someone, but that is as far as it gets. Hopefully, Apple will set up some accessibility guidelines for thier iPhne Develepor Connection site. I am reviewing each and every app I think I can use on my blog. As I review each app, I post the review to the App Store and forward it to the developers when possible. Some have been responsive, others not. I know that Apple has consulted with some of the national organizations for the blind. The focus there tends to be on issues relating to the profoundly blind. Text-to-speech and other non-visual interfaces are the focus of those talks. The issues I am trying to raise affect those of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Accessibility: An Open Letter to Steve Jobs &amp; Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Open Letter to Steve Jobs and the iPhone Development Team Over the last few months, I have dedicated much of my time and blog to thoughts and reviews of the accessibility of the iPhone platform for the visually impaired. Since I am partially sighted with some functional vision, I have been focused on simple, easily-implementable features that would improve the iPhone&#8217;s ease of use for users with less than perfect vision rather than for the profoundly blind. Building on the multitouch zoom, landscape mode and the iPhone&#8217;s good color screen, I have set out some guidelines for iPhone developers. Additionally, I have begun a series of app reviews based on an accessibility perspective. I now have a single web page bringing together all of these posts: http://www.timobrienphotos.com/large-print-ideas/iphone-accessiphone-access/. I know that you have had some contact with the American Federation of the Blind on making the iPhone more accessible. I do not know the outcome of these discussions, but I know the AFB&#8217;s focus on providing universal accessibility. I am not addressing that here. Rather, I am focusing on access for the visually impaired more than for the more profoundly blind. With the aging of the baby boomers and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted today on Slashdot, Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. &#8220;The Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping last week, but Amazon surprised everyone late on March 3rd by placing the Amazon Kindle software for the iPhone in the Apple App Store. With the Whispersync technology you can now keep your Kindle and iPhone ebooks in sync and read everywhere you go. Readers on the iPhone also now get access to over 200,000 ebook titles on the Amazon Kindle storefront. Check out the hands-on image gallery and video of the Amazon Kindle software on the iPhone and Kindle 2.&#8221; via Slashdot &#124; Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. The Slashdot article links to a decent review of the new app and how it words. But how accessible is this new app? Being visually impaired makes me skeptical of reading on my iPod Touch. But it is not impossible, there are several decent e-book reader apps already on the iPhone platform, including the feature rich, but content poor, Stanza and the content rich, but accessibility poor, Shortcovers. My wife has a first generation Kindle, so I tapped into her account to test out the new Kindle app. The only accessibility feature the Kindle app [...]]]></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>
		<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>iPhone Full Browser</title>
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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>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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