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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>Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta Now Available!</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/10/adobe-lightroom-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe has released the beta version of Lightroom 3 for free (until April). If you have been thinking about trying it out, this is a great way to test LR without shelling out big bucks. I am downloading it now, so have not yet tested it, but it is supposed to include flickr integration (which I assume is an easy upload feature). You can find the LR 3 beta here. Let me know what you think! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Great Video Tutorials for LightroomFull Page Zoom in the Google Chrome BetaAdobe Reader&#8217;s &#8220;Enhancing On-Screen ViewingSetting up Lignt-on-Dark Contrast for PDFstim on photography]]></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>Accessing WritePad</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/accessing-writepad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/accessing-the-eyechart-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>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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		<title>Dual Monitors &amp; the Visually Impaired</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/dual-monitors-the-visually-impaired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I thought I had a great idea. I still think its is a great idea, but I was beaten to it. One of the major reasons I rarely use magnification software is that I find the process disorienting. You lose either the whole screen or an important piece of it to the magnification window. Switching back and forth between the views has always felt more costly than just fishing out my low vision reading glasses. It occurred to me that a dual monitor system might be the solution. I have not forked over the money for a second monitor and video card yet, so I have not had a chance to test my idea. [If you have a spare set, feel free to drop me a line.] Apparently, this idea occurred to commercial magnication software companies already. Zoomtext offers Dual Monitor Support with its latest version, 9.x. From the ZoomText web site: Primary with 1x displays a magnified view on your primary monitor and an unmagnified view on your secondary monitor. This mode is useful when a low-vision user and normal-sighted user are working together on the same system. The low-vision user can zoom-in to the desired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Dislike Notepad? Go for EditPad Instead.</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/do-you-dislike-notepad-go-for-editpad-instead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/do-you-dislike-notepad-go-for-editpad-instead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time you bump into a file with a .txt on the end, your PC opens it up in Notepad, Microsoft&#8217;s default text editor. Though the font can be changed, the color scheme is restricted to the default Windows color scheme. In this screen shot of Notepad, you can see that I have changed Vista&#8217;s default background color from white to a light yellow. The simply reduces eye strain. The white background is too bright at the distance from which I look at the screen. A much better alternative is EditPad Lite. In addition to its features for the visually impaired, it is a much more flexible test editor. EditPad Lite allows for multiple files open simultaneously and has lots of great features for programming in languages like HTML. EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. EditPad Lite works with Windows NT4, 98, 2000, ME, XP and Vista. The main feature for the visually impaired is EditPad Lite&#8217;s customizable color scheme. Once you click on &#8216;Preferences&#8216; on the Options menu, you can easily set your color preferences on the menu that pops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Order of Accessibility To Go, Please</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/one-order-of-accessibility-to-go-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I bumped into what I thought might be an implementation of my accessibility switch idea. This accessibility switch would be a single icon that would turn or off a list of pre-configured accessibility settings. If you ever visit a new computer or need to share yours, you know how changing the accessibility settings and then returing the computer to normal is frustrating, tedious and not always possible. So I would love to see a software that would collect all of a user&#8217;s settings and then make them portable. As I have mentioned elsewhere, Migo has some Mobile Desktop Software that is aimed at a similar goal. Migo is intended to make your My Documents folder and browser settings, e.g. favorites, mobile. AccessApps is another piece of the puzzle. While Migo has made some of your desktop and its settings ealily mobile, AccessApps includes many free accessiblility-related applications (as well as many useful open source software). From the website: AccessApps is an initiative developed by the Scottish JISC Regional Support Centres in cooperation with JISC TechDis. It consists of over 50 open source and freeware assistive technology applications which can be entirely used from a USB stick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automatic Accessibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As seen on Slashdot, The Future of Things reports that: Researches at the University of Washington have recently developed a system, which for the first time, offers an instantly customizable approach to user interfaces. Each participant in the program is placed through a brief skills test and then a mathematically-based version of the user interface optimized for his or her vision and motor abilities is generated. The current off-the-shelf designs are especially discouraging for the disabled, the elderly and others who have trouble controlling a mouse, because most computer programs have standardized button sizes, fonts, and layouts, which are designed for normal users This puts me in mind of my accessibility switch idea on steroids, sort of a automatic version of this switch. Customizing whatever computer interface, be it Windows, Mac or the internet, is a grueling process. For me, it is not just trial and error, but trial by fire. There are frustrating menus, poorly implemented ideas, unhelpful documentation and hard to find features. I can spend a week setting up a computer, only to find a bug or a better way or a need to switch machines. I tried Migo&#8216;s Mobile Desktop software a few years back. The [...]]]></description>
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