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		<title>Lighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the Blind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired&#8217;s Insights exhibit was featured recently in the New York Times. &#8220;‘Insights’ Showcases Blind and Visually Impaired Artists&#8221; gives an nice overview of the exhibit and it artists. Now in its 20th year, “Insights” is the country’s pre-eminent selected exhibition of paintings, photographs and mixed-media pieces by legally blind artists. What began as an event focused on works of purely tactile interest — just 13 the first year — has evolved into a show of some 120 pieces where the emphasis is on the visual, and on an interpretation of it more in line with the one Ms. Kitazawa had in mind. Featuring all genres of art, Insights puts serious though into what the exhibit really means, for art and for the blind. “The exhibition is framed to be about limits and what can be done within them,” said Lawrence Rinder, the director of the Berkeley Art Museum, who was a juror for “Insights” this year. That thematic framing, he added, locates the show’s blind artists very much in the tradition of artists in general. “We all have limits of perception, and all artists work within that envelope.” Accompanying the article, &#8221; ‘Insights’ Showcases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible iTunes: A Truly Large Font</title>
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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>Accessing the New Kindle DX</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I garnered some First Impressions of the New Kindle DX from the NYTimes&#8217;s Gadgetwise Blog. According to the post, the new Kindle DX&#8216;s main feature is its larger size. The DX has a 9.7-inch display, which the company says is 2 1/2 times the size of the Kindle 2. But the device doesn’t feel or look as large as a sheet of copier paper. It won’t give you the feeling of reading an entire page of a newspaper. You read the paper by flipping through it, article by article. With a price tag just south of $500, this e-book reader ought to have some bang for these big bucks. The larger screen is great, but what does this mean for the visually impaired? The Kindle already comes with a hobbled text to speech function and a narrow choic of font sizes. Rumors have it that Amazon engineers are looking at adding an audio interface option. Digging a little deeper on the Kindle DX s web site, I found a list of the DX&#8217;s fetures that might be useful for the visually imapired. Auto-Rotating Screen By simply turning the device, you can immediately see full-width landscape views of maps, graphs, tables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to UNC&#8217;s Maze Day 2009!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cool news. I have been invited to Maze Day at UNC tomorrow to talk about blind photography. Maze Day is for visually impaired and blind students in grades K-12, their parents and teachers. Your students will enjoy fun and educational computer applications developed especially for them. UNC students will learn how well their accessible applications work with real users. And everyone will have a good time! I am still brainstorming up ideas on what to do. I am excited and a bit nervous, but it should be fun. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Game Faces: NC State at UNCGame Faces OnlineBlind Visitors Photography Project @ Victoria and Albert MuseumFun Photography with PhotojojoShooting UNC v. State Pre-Game]]></description>
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