Posts Tagged ‘ web ’

I do not understand something about the mobile web. The ‘mobile web’ 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...
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Getting online is not always easy when you are visually impaired. Font sizes can be too small, images hard to see and colors hard to make out. But there are ways to minimize these problems. I have been tinkering with my web browsers ever since I used my first one many years ago. I...
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Some flotsam from the TwitterSea:via GrayBit v2.0 is a Grayscale Conversion Contrast Accessibility Tool. Basically, it converts a web page to grayscale so you can see how much (or little) contrast is in the page design. Contrast is important for readability, a key accessibility for the visually impaired. What’s GrayBit Do? GrayBit is an...
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Facebook, despite its ubiquity, has naver been very accessible. The pages are densely cluttered with an overload of information. Since the company is not doing much about it, there is now a Facebook Accessibility project going on at the volunteer developer group, Project Possibility. But I digress. Facebook has developed a free app, Facebook...
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I have collected all of the results of all my musings on and tinkering with internet accessibility in a new web page, Web Access, here on tim o’brien photos. Getting online is not always easy when you are visually impaired. Font sizes can be too small, images hard to see and colors hard to...
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The Sight of Emotion project displays hotography by blind and visually impaired people. AIM: To aid blind and visually impaired communities to create a dialogue with the seeing world, creating awareness and educating public audiences of the needs and experiences of the visually disabled. I do not know what the status of the project,...
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The LightHouse is currently call for submissions to its 20th Insights exhibition. “The LightHouse is accepting up to five submissions of original works by artists who are blind or visually impaired for consideration for Insights 2009.” Submissions are due by Friday, April 24, 2009. Chosen entries will be shown in Fall 2009 at the...
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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...
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Each month the Assistive Technology Blog Carnival presents a a series of themed posts on assistive tech. This month’s issue, the February 2009 Edition of AT Blog Carnival, features Perfect Pairings of Assistive Technology Tools. Welcome to The AT Blog Carnival for February is “Perfect Pairings”, highlighting combinations of assistive technology that work together....
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I keep all my contact and calendar information on Google. Google is convenient, ubiquitous and easy to use. when I brought my new iPod Touch home, I was excited to set up my e-mail, contacts and calendar on the device. Setting up my e-mail went smoothly enough. The difficulty begin when I tried to...
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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...
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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....
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Yesterday’s post on iPhone zooming gave me an idea for an interesting zoom feature for Firefox. Since I am no programmer, I thought I would trhow it out there and hope the idea catches on. The idea is based on a neat iPhone zoom feature. As I noted yesterday, if you double tap on...
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I have been remiss in not blogging earlier about a great resource for blind photography, Vince’s Parallax. As Vince puts it: The pages referred to here are about blind photographers and their work, techniques that anyone could use to take photos, and ways of representing the finished images. Vince has done an amazing job...
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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...
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