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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>All Access Blogging: Tips for Your Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/all-access-blogging-tips-for-your-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Access Blogging has some great Tips for Your Blog. All Access Blogging focuses on making the blogosphere accessible, a goal close to my heart as well. Tips include: Fix Your Feed Icon What&#8217;s In Your Blog&#8217;s Title Bar? Text and Background Colors On Your Blog Can Help or Hurt Your Readers Blog Quizzes: Make Them Work For ALL Your Readers How many links are in this sentence? After reading Fix Your Feed Icon, I realized that I have been copying the caption into the alt text tag. Doing this makes screen readers repeat the same text, once for the caption and again for the alt text tag. Definitely worth the read. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:How To Make Your Blog Accessible &#8211; Tips from All Access BloggingBlogosphere AccessDo It Myself Blog &#8211; Glenda Watson Hyatt » 3 Tips for Making Your Hyperlinks More UsableCall for a Printer Friendly WordPressBlog Accessibilty]]></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>NYT&#8217;s Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lst week, the Gadgetwise Blogat the NY Times offered this Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass. Tired of squinting at tiny type the screen all day? In Windows Vista, you can bump up the font size — right-click on the desktop, select Personalize and click on “Adjust font size.” Once the “DPI Scaling” window comes up (probably after a Vista security alert), select the larger “120 dpi” setting and click OK. Illustrated instructions are here. On a Mac OS X Leopard system, you can increase the size of type on desktop icons by going to the View menu to Show View Options; the text size controls are there. Mac users can zoom in on the screen by pressing the Option-Command-plus (+) keys; pressing Command-Option-minus (-) zooms out. Pressing the Command key and either the plus or minus keys increases the size of the text in certain Mac programs like Mail and Safari. It&#8217;s very useful. I did it myself as soon as I brought my new Vista machine in the house last year. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Simple Computer Access Tip: Use a Black BackgroundFirefox Tip: Increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing iPhone Maps: Accessibility of the iPhone Maps App</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps is a great thing. There is no question about it. But it is not perfect. Surprisingly, it suffers from the same gripe I have with map books and atlases. I can not read the print. It is simply too small, no matter how much you zoom in. This is true both on a computer and on an iPhone. On a PC, the proper balance of Full page and text zoom can help, but there is no similar solution on the iPhone. As you can see here, no matter how much I zoom into Chapel Hill in the iPhone&#8217;s Maps app, the text size stays tiny. The screen stays uncluttered, but I am still lost. How could this be fixed? One option is to to allow for adjustable font sizes. If a cluttered map with overlapping text a serious issue, how about some kind of pop-up box when a street is tapped? There must be a creative solution out there. Google just needs to find and implement it. Until then, iPhone maps are just some pretty pictures for me. Hmmm&#8230; That last sentence gave me an idea for a workaround. Screenshots, where you take a picture of what is [...]]]></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>
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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>Accessing Easy E-Mail Free: iPhone App Accessibility Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next in my series of iPhone app accessibility reviews is Easy E-Mail Free 1.1. As the company, Rock iPhone, puts it on their web site: Want to make email writing on iPhone much easier? Easy Email is what you’re looking for! Easy Email uses the wider landscape mode keyboard which is much easier for typing. To compose your email, you can: pick our default drafts or your customized drafts from Draft Library; choose the font style, size and color; add some special symbols which are not available on default keyboard. Then simply tap send button to active Mobile Mail to dispatch. Compared to another iPhone email drafting program, EasyWriter, which I have already reviewed, Easy Email is only marginally more accessible. Its main advantage is the choice of font and font style over simple zooming. Withe the right font in bold, the text is easier to read in Easy Email. Here is a list of Easy Email&#8217;s features: &#8211; Wide landscape mode keyboard support: larger keys, wider space between keys. &#8211; Draft library: save your draft and load it onto the new mail anytime. &#8211; 20 preset sentences in Draft library. &#8211; Text customization: font, size, color, bold and italic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Controversy Catching Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brouhaha over the new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech function possibly violating copyright has really caught fire. The issue hit the papers as well as the blogosphere. The Wall Street Journal carried the sotry with New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir. Several fellow accessibility blogs have picked up the issue. The Talking Books Librarian asks &#8220;Kindle 2 text to speech: is it a copyright violation or help for those with disabilities?&#8220;. Mac-Accessibility call for an email campaign in Author’s Guild Opposes TTS for reading Electronic Materials. The geek and sci-fi blogs are burning up on the issue as well. Wired reports on the Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon&#8217;s Kindle 2. Geek News Central brings up: The Kindle, Copyright, and Neil Gaiman. Speaking of sci-fi author, Neil Gaiman, he has has a Quick argument summary on his blog. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Slashdot &#124; Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software IllegalBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageKindle&#8217;s Crystal Ball: Accessible NavigationBookshelf AccessOne Small Step Back for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access]]></description>
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		<title>Slashdot &#124; Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Slashdot, Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal. &#8220;The Author&#8217;s Guild claims that the new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech software is illegal, stating that &#8220;They don&#8217;t have the right to read a book out loud,&#8221; said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. &#8220;That&#8217;s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.&#8221; Forget for a moment that text-to-speech doesn&#8217;t copy an existing work. And forget the odd notion that the artificial enunciation of plain text is equivalent to a person&#8217;s nuanced and emotive reading. The Guild&#8217;s claim is that even to read out loud is a production akin to an illegal copy, or a public performance.&#8221; why is there such a conflict between accessibility and copyright? It seems to me the lot of accessibility issues are a side effect of copyright protection. Digital rights management, (DRM), as always impeded the flow of accessible information. The Library of Congress has thousands of volumes of text in audio format, but does not release it digitally because of fears of copyright infringement. Publishers are afraid of accessible electronic books in open formats, such as PDF, for the same reason. The music industry seems ready to abandon DRM. Apple&#8217;s iTunes has begun [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/read-it-to-me-kindle-20-has-text-to-speech/</link>
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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>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>Accessibility Improvement in Google Earth 5.0</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/accessibility-improvement-in-google-earth-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Earth is a profoundly visual program. It is fun to watch the program zoom in and out, moving around the planet with breathtaking visual effect. It is useful to learn about the geography, both topographic and human, of particular locations. In the end, Google Earth is fundamentally visual, so why would it be useful to the blind? For the profoundly blind, the interface would need to be rethought completely using tactile and auditory interfaces. But, for the partially sighted, Google Earth is that magic atlas I always wished for growing up. To be able to zoom in and out lets me see the fine detail that I never could in a book. Maps have always frustrated me. I never have the necessary magnification with me to read street names or route numbers. With Google Earth, I can map out and familiarize myself with routes and neighborhoods. Earth&#8217;s programmers, up to now, have left accessibility off the list of priorities. Text size was tiny and the color scheme had lots of low contrast blue-on-white. In the latest version of Earth, Google has made one concession, larger font sizes. The color and font schemes are not adjustable, but the default font [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for a Printer Friendly WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/01/call-for-a-printer-friendly-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is yet another idea for making WordPress more accessible. A simple way for a visually impaired user to make a web page easier to access, either directly or through a screen reader, is to simplify the web site. The easiest way to remove clutter is often to find the printer-friendly version. These print this page links remove headers, sidebars and visually-distracting ads. The text is allowed to flow across the entire width of the screen, taking advantage of the increased legibility of enlarged text in widescreen monitors. I am not alone in this. Some has psoted a WordPress Idea for a Printer Friendly Button. This would work so that clicking on a post, or a page, or a section, or even the whole blog, could be output as a printer-friendly document for backup or other purposes. There is a plugin called WP-Print that implements this concept. Problematically, WP-Print is not so easy to install and set up. I also can&#8217;t see how to use it to print categories or the whole blog. It has taken me a while to figure out how to get it working on this blog. Too few use WP-Print. Having a built-in print option throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing iPhone Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 small. Sure, the iPhone&#8217;s screen is not as good as a thirty inch monitor, but the iPhone is a lot more mobile and has all that cache. There are a four main features that an iPhone app needs to be easy to use in the sense meant here. To be fully accessible for the profoundly blind, a full auditory and tactile interface would be necessary. For now, let&#8217;s focus on the visual interface. Zoom The primary feature an accessible app needs is to allow zoom. Resizing content with the multitouch pinch zoom is one of the niftiest features on the iPhone interface. This feature also makes the iPhone accessible. Without it, it would be just another iPod for me, one lacking the clickwheel&#8217;s tactile and auditory feedback. Adjustable fonts Most iPhone apps have a single set font, which is too small to read even with my [...]]]></description>
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