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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>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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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>Testing A New Accessible WordPress Theme</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/testing-a-new-accesssible-wordpress-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean, over at Bushido Designs, has responded to my call for an accessible WordPress theme. In a recent post, Surprise! Your “semantic, accessible, search engine friendly” WordPress theme is none of the above, Dean announced his development and release of the initial version of the Access theme. Among other things, the themes is designed from the ground up to be both screen-reader friendly and readable for the partially sighted. People with poor eyesight have a difficult time reading small text, and text which has a low contrast ratio to the page’s background. So while your 10 pixel, gray, Times New Roman text on a black background may be fine for young people with good eyesight, it’s less than ideal for people with aging eyes or visual impairment. And your links without underlines may be fine for people who can see colors, colorblind people won’t be able to distinguish them from plain text. When I put this blog together, I cobbled together a theme to suit my needs, A (Partly) DIY Accessible WordPress Theme. But it was not built for accessibility. I have no idea if it works well with screen readers, only that it works for my vision and my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A (Partly) DIY Accessible WordPress Theme</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/11/a-partly-diy-accessible-wordpress-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my own call for a more accessible wordpress theme, I searched the list of available themes for the simplest up-to-date theme I could find. After hours of downloading and installing promising themes, I rand across the Dojo theme by Scott Vandehey: A minimal web-standards theme with two dynamic sidebars and an editable &#8220;about&#8221; blurb. As much as I ended up liking the three column format with the optional blurb, I liked the extraordinarily minimal color scheme. However, it does not come with customizable colors, so I was stuck with the black-on-white design that strains my eyes so badly. I did not want to throw my hands up in frustration and surrender, so I decided to tinker (sorry, Scott). I went into WordPress&#8217; theme editor and loaded up the main css page after mistakenly playing wilth the print css page. I searched and found all the references to background and color and found some unintelligible six digit codes. It is never as simple as brown or green. Googling found me a page of colors matched with their html codes. I plugged in the code for black in the background field and some colors for colors that I liked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for a High-Contrast WordPress Theme</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/11/call-for-a-high-contrast-wordpress-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have made a call on the wordpress.org site for a more accessible theme! Many themes are hard for visually impaired folks to read. Not just legally blind people like me, but many older folks have it tough with all theses colorful and cluttered themes. Can someone build me a simple theme with bells and whistles but with a simple gold-on black color scheme? Add your vote, voice or theme-writing skills to the cause! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Call for a WordPress Accessiblility PluginCall for a Printer Friendly WordPressA (Partly) DIY Accessible WordPress ThemeBlogosphere Accessabout the site]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Alternative Google Color Schemes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/08/alternative-google-color-schemes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my earlier post about the lack of accessible Vista themes and my current feelings on standard internet color schemes, I posted the following to the accessible Google Group: Alternative Google Color Schemes &#8211; accessible &#124; Google Groups&#60; For the visually impaired, Google&#8217;s (as well as MS and most websites) color scheme is downright bad. Does Google have or could it develop an alternative accessible co or scheme? Not only should it be high contrast, but also light-on-dark. For me, I like yellow-on-black. Firefox and IE allow users to impose color schemes while browsing, but this method changes all text and background to the same two colors. This ruins the full use of each page. For example, in Gmail, the star feature becomes useless.For another, regular text and hyperlinks become indistinguishable. So this solution is only partial. This remains true for other websites and for Windows as well. Both Vista and XP have high-contrast color schemes, but there are both aesthetically unappealing (Visually impaired does not equal aesthetically unaware) and more problematic then helpful. Is this something that Google could/will implement? Is this something a third-party could do well? There are some third party tools (e.g. Firefox&#8217;s Accessibar), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Accessible Windows Vista Themes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/07/accessible-windows-vista-themes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I noted in the last post, I have just moved to a Windows Vista machine. I have spent the last few days looking for a decent theme with large fonts and good light-on-dark contrast. There are none! The Windows high contrast themes, besides being hideous, do not have large text. To check these out, you can either right-click on the desktop and select &#8216;Personalize&#8216; and then to &#8216;Windows Colors and Appearance&#8216; or go to the &#8216;Ease of Access Center&#8216; Control Panel and then to &#8216;Set Up High Contrast&#8216;. Either way, you are stuck with an ugly interface with the small font. The &#8216;Ease of Access Center&#8216; has an option for changing something called DPI to make the font easier to read, but that only goes so far. I checked out the trial version of WindowBlinds, but I could not easily find any accessible themes. After a frustrating few minutes with the software, I sent an email to the company who sells it, asking them if WindowBlinds offeres any accessible themes. In the end, I spent a good chunk of time adjusting all the color and font settings in the &#8216;Windows Colors and Appearance&#8216; panel. After a few mistakes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access Firefox: Because the Internet is for everyone.</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/07/access-firefox-because-the-internet-is-for-everyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just moved to a new computer, I have been installing software and making the system more accessible. In trying to find all the little ways to make Firefox more accessible, I ran across this website, AccessFirefox.org. They do a remarkable job of collecting all the Firefox themes ans extensions that help make Firefox a superior browser for ease of use. My favorite so far is Accessibar, which adds a toolbar to the top of the screen that allows you to control the text size and the colors of each website. The large icon themes are also quite useful. The one item that is missing right now is No Squint. With the latest version of Firefox, No Squint allows you to control the full zoom and text zoom of each website. What is particularly useful is that it remember the particular setting for each site. I find that different websites require different adjustments, depending on the amount of text vs. images and how many columns the site has. Accisbar allows you to adjust font sizes, but is not site specific and has no &#8216;memory&#8217;. I will recommend that AccessFirefox add No Squint to their list. Do you know of any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefox Themes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2006/03/firefox-themes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firefox has a number of large icon themes, available here. They are easy to install and to change if you do not find them useful. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessible Firefox: A Collection of Accessibility Add-onsAccess Firefox: Because the Internet is for everyone.Scroll Wheel Image ZoomAccess the Web!Web Access]]></description>
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