Posts Tagged ‘ vision ’

According to Slashdot , there is now a Bionic Eye Telescope To Treat Macular Degeneration. This visual aid actually goes inside the eye. It sounds a bit frightening, actually, but exciting at the same time. External vision aids are bulky, often uncomfortable and easy to lose or break. This one avoids all those issue. If...
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Notes from a small field posted a neat idea for iPhone accessibility a couple of years back. He proposes an accessibility mode, where the iPhone (or any touch screen device) engages a very simple interface for the disabled. A while ago, I posted about a similar concept for the desktop computer, but that has...
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San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA just completed an exhibit of blind and visually-impaired artists in Creative Vision: An Exhibition on Vision and Perception. At the College’s Delta Center for the Arts, Creative Vision: is ran from February 26 to March 27, 2009. Note from the Gallery Director, Jan Marlese: I first became...
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Every so often, I browse iPhone’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...
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APH’s Fred’s Head blog has a detailed bio of, article on and interview with blind photographer and disabilities activist, George Covington, in George Covington’s Method for Using Photography to Enlarge Images Sighted people tend to take photographs to capture an image of a loved one’s face, to have a visual record of a person,...
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An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos at Amazon Does Amazon have a Chief Accessibility Officer? Someone who oversees accessibility issues across the company? It does not seem so. With Amazon at the heart of both online shopping and digital books (audio and e-books), you need a strong corporate position on accessibility. Not only is...
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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...
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As seen on the Talking Books Librarian, the American Foundation for the Blind’ is conducting a Survey on Small Screen Visual Displays at http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?Mode=Survey&SurveyID=101. Taken from the website: AFB TECH, the technology arm of the American Foundation for the Blind, is currently working to establish standards to improve the readability of small screen visual...
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Spotted on Fred’s Head Companion, the APH is calling for entries to its annual art exhibit, Insights. The APH InSights 2009: Visions From the Mind is the APH’s eighteenth annual juried art competition and exhibition for artists who are visually impaired or blind. Deadlines for Entry: April 1 for Preschool through High School and...
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When I was first diagnosed with macular degeneration, my ophthalmologist Suggesting that I look just to the of what I wanted to see. this is because my peripheral vision is not as strongly affected as much information. The more serious the macular degeneration, the more central vision is lost. fortunately for me, I still...
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I had two best men at my wedding. Their tandem toast revolved around my relationship to BPR. Addiction may be the word they used. So, as I was browsing the iPhone app store on my iPod Touch, I could not resist testing out NPR Mobile when I ran across it. NPR Mobile is an...
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As part of Project BlindSighted on Blind Photographers, I have posted my enty on my photographic process. Hopefully this will prompt a discussion that will help me develop and improve how I shoot. I am re-posting it here: Project BlindSighted: tim o’brien I am no where near as organized or experienced as Lodro or...
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We have begun a project, Seeing My Images, on our flickr group, to address, as a community, this issue of how blind photographers make their images. It is not as easy a question to answer as one might think. We are all unique in the way we use our camera. We vary in our...
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