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		<title>Call for Moblie Web Zoom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not understand something about the mobile web. The &#8216;mobile web&#8217; entails all the sites made for smart phones and other mobile devices. Despite being designed for small screens, most mobile site disable the best feature on mobile browsers, the pinch zoom. This makes no sense to me. How could this benefit mobile web users in any way? Taking away features is not a great idea to begin with, so removing the capacity to zoom in on small screen is simply foolish. Instead of disabling zoom, mobile web sites (and mobile browsers) ought to be looking into text zoom. The iPhone&#8217;s default zoom, like that in most browsers, is a full zoom, acting like a magnifying glass. While useful, full zoom usually means a lot of panning left and right to read the text. Firefox (as well as Adobe Reader and mist eBook reader) offer a much better alternative, text zoom. Text zoom is not really a zoom. What happens when thus feature is used is that the text size is increases while keeping the page structure intact. In plain English, the page width and all images stay the same size. The end result is that a reader does [...]]]></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>Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s tech section reviews the state of e-book readers in A Walk Through a Crop of Electronic Readers. THE release this week of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has put electronic book readers in the spotlight. Its proponents celebrate the ability to store thousands of titles on a single lightweight device; the access to newspapers, magazines and blogs while on the go; and the ability, at the click of a button, to own one of hundreds of thousands of titles in seconds. I can&#8217;t add much more without having tested the devices myself. So I’ve come around on my opposition to e-book. Somewhat. With a device like the Kindle, I could see myself reading happily on the train and buying books instantly. Despite these added conveniences, I don’t think e-books will replace books anytime soon. It is probably time that these devices are compared from an accessibility point of view. Care to lend me one? If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing your Kindle on the iPhoneRead it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-SpeechBookshelf AccessBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageAccessing the New Kindle DX]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>Accessible e-Reading: Google Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Google announced that its Book Search would be available for iPhone and other mobile device users. I like to read, so I thought I would see how it works and how accessible it is. I looked at another e-book reader, Stanza, in an earlier post, so I will look at the differences. As noted in the NY Times article on the accouncement, Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones, the key feature is the use of text rather than images. Unlike the version of Google Book Search for PCs, which displays scanned images of book pages, the mobile version simply displays text, allowing users to download printed material more quickly over wireless networks. [PC Workd also has a good summary of the announcment.] Google has done this for the same reason as Adobe does in its Reflow command, using text allows the text to be reformatted easily for different screens and devices. Using text has a great side benefit as well, making the text accessible to accessibility modifications and to screen readers. I have never been able to use Google Book Search on my computer since the images are not amenable to my color and font [...]]]></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>Stanza Review Update &#8211; Reading Books on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 cup of coffee.Related Posts:Stanza &#8211; Accessible E-Book Reader for the iPhoneAccessing your Kindle on the iPhoneAccessible e-Reading: Google BooksAccessing iPhone AppsBookshelf Access]]></description>
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		<title>Stanza &#8211; Accessible E-Book Reader for the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Adobe Reader&#8217;s &#8220;Enhancing On-Screen Viewing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2005 03:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a supplement to some of my previous posts, here is a link to Adobe&#8217;s suggestions for Enhancing On-Screen Viewing. This includes discussion of reflowing, use of the full screen option an other accessibility features. The page describes Adobe Reader 6.0, but appears to apply equally to the latest version.]]></description>
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		<title>Setting up Lignt-on-Dark Contrast for PDFs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe Reader 7.0 allows users to change the coloers used to display PDF files. If you go to the Edit menu and select Preferences, you will see a new indow with a list of options on the left. Select Accessibility and you will see the following window. Check the Replace Document Colors box and select the Use High-Contrast Colors option. I recomend the yellow-text-on-black setting. Adobe has other accessibilty features that I will highlight in other posts. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Contrast options in Internet ExplorerSummer in the City 2A picture is worth a thousand words.IggyThinkin&#8217;]]></description>
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