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		<title>Help Make WordPress Media More Accessible &#8211;  Vote for Media Features</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/07/wordpress-media-more-accessible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress development team is planning to update WP&#8217;s media handling in the next version. Via WordPress › Blog » Vote for 2.9 Media Features, &#8220;A large percentage of the requests we get from users are for more/better media features, so we’ve decided to focus 2.9 on building an infrastructure for improved media handling that we can continue to build on in versions to come. In that vein, we need your input to determine which features to prioritize and build sooner rather than later.&#8221; So they have a short survery about priorities for improving WP&#8217;s media handling. None of the eleven options mention accessibility, so I encourage you to fill in the text box at the bottom requesting improved accessibility handling. I suggested that they make it easy for us to make our blogs screen-reader friendly and make al-text tags obvious and recommended (if not required). Please help out! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Vote for WordPress AccessCall for a WordPress Accessiblility PluginCall for a Printer Friendly WordPressBlogosphere AccessUpdate on &#34;More Unabridged Auiobooks!&#34;]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the Blogosphere: Blind Bloggers</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/accessing-the-blogosphere-blind-bloggers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloggers come in all shepes, sizes and abilities. For the visually impeired and blind, blogs and blogging present unique challenges. To meet and discuss these issues, there is a online group of these bloggers. Visit Blind Bloggers to find out more. Blind Bloggers is a quiet, but very helpfrul, group of bloggers. Member range in types and levels of visual impairement. Major blog platforms, including WordPress and Blogger, are represented as well with a wide range of expertise. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Blind BloggersBlogosphere AccessThe Seeing My Images ProjectFlickr: Blind PhotographersPlanet Accessibility: Bringing Together the A11y Blogosphere]]></description>
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		<title>new layout for tim o&#8217;brien photos</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/new-layout-for-tim-obrien-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[tim o&#8217;brien photos has received a make-over this weekend. {for the wordpress savvy, the theme has changed from my modified dojo theme to magazine basic.} i hve dropped the old look as it displayed improperly in older versions of internet explorer. supposedly, this new look is both standards-compliant (aka accessible to screen readers) and cros-browser compatible. please, let me know if you have issues. unfortunately, this change has meant the loss of my treasured gold-on-black color scheme. as i learn more about htiml and css, i will attempt to resurrect the old color scheme with the new look. until then, users, like me, who prefer the other color scheme, will have to rely on firefox&#8217;s accessibar extension to force their own choice of colors. for the small font, the same holds true, except i recommend the nosquint extension instead of accessibar. there are still some minor bugs to be worked out. there is no print-ready option yet among other issues, but i expect to get things fully sorted queicky. i would really appreciate some feedback about the change. if you have an problems or difficulties with the new look, it is vitally important to me that you let me kow. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Contrast Admin Color Scheme for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/hich-contrast-admin-color-scheme-for-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/hich-contrast-admin-color-scheme-for-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=1913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I really like WordPress as a blogging platform, its color scheme makes it difficult for me to manage my blog. Generally, use the Accessibar plug-in for Firefox to reset the colors, but manually redoing this each time I access my blogs is more than tiresome. There is a plugin, Easy Admin Color Schemes, that offers some hope for a better solution. The Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin allows users to easily customize the colors of the administration interface for WordPress. It works by adding a new page to the Settings area in the WordPress admin interface. Users can use the simple form to change the look of the admin interface without needing to know a great deal about WordPress. I have loaded the plugin, which, by default, offers several pretty, but low contrast, color schemes. EACS allows you to either import new color schemes or create new ones. Despite my lack of any real experience with html or style sheets (what&#8217;s the difference?), I blundered through editing one of the preset options, turning it as best as I could, into a high-contrast, gold-on-black color scheme. It still is not perfect, but it goes a long way to making the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on the Go: Accessing the iPhone WordPress App</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/blogging-on-the-go-accessing-the-iphone-wordpress-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=1693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 sitting in the living room. Since laptops are too unwieldy and their screens to small to accommodate my visual needs, I can not just borrow my wife&#8217;s laptop. So I can use either an analog notebook (the one with pages) and pen or my iPod Touch. I can not read my own handwriting much of the time, so going old-school presents too many transcription problems. So how can my iPod help? The first way is to use email. Since the iPhone Mail app is not particularly accessible, there are a number of substitutes available in the App Store, from simple mail apps like EasyWriter to more fully-featured note-taking apps like Fliq Notes. The best way should be to use WordPress&#8217; own iPhone app, WordPress for iPhone. As you can see in their video overview below, this app packs a lot of great WordPress features. What this [...]]]></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>Blogosphere Access</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/large-print-ideas/blogosphere-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged sporadically about accessibility and the blogosphere. This page brings together my thoughts and tips, both specific and general, about blogging while blind. General Blogosphere Access Blind Bloggers: A Forum for Blind  (and visually impaired) Bloggers! A few months ago, at the behest of another legally blind blogger, I set up a Google Group for bloggers who are, you guessed it!, &#8230; WordPress Coming soon: Better admin color schemes, WP theme accessibility guidelines and more. High Contrast Admin Color Scheme for WordPress: EACS High Contrast Color Scheme While I really like WordPress as a blogging platform, its color scheme makes it difficult for me to manage my &#8230; Testing A New Accessible WordPress Theme: Review of a new these, Access. This theme is designed with accessibility in mind from the start. Call for a Printer Friendly WordPress: 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, &#8230; Vote for WordPress Access: The new WordPress 2.7 is great. I really like the new layout. Spotting how to hide and show the left side bar was a bit &#8230; Blogging on the Go: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bought My First iPhone App Today</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/bought-my-first-iphone-app-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.timobrienphotos.com/?p=1791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I crossed an iPhone milestone today and paid for my first iPhone app today. Up until now, I have used only free apps in addition to the default ones. But I encountered an issue that could be solved easily only by a $1.99 app. So I bought it. And I did it through iTunes on my desktop, rather than through the built-in App Store. I have been experimenting with drafting my iPhone app reviews directly on the iPod Touch. The issue has been the extra steps involved moving screenshots from the Touch to the computer and then to the blog. Using WordPresses dedicated iPhone app, WordPress for iPhone, I can write a first draft of the post and attach a screenshot directly from the photo library. The problem is that there is no free way (that I can find) to rotate images on the iPhone. Screenshots taken in landscape mode end up sideways. iPhone: Photo Rotate does one and only one thing for $1.99. It rotates images. Problem solved. iPhone: Photo Rotate is available on the iPhone or through the iTunes App Store. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying [...]]]></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>Vote for WordPress Access</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/vote-for-wordpress-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new WordPress 2.7 is great. I really like the new layout. Spotting how to hide and show the left side bar was a bit tricky. Now that I know how to do it, I no longer have overlapping columns after zooming in Firefox. Other than that a few broken plugins, it has been a smooth and pleasant transation. Yet the WP development team is not taking a well-deserved break. On the WordPress official blog, I spotted a post: Prioritizing Features for WordPress 2.8. Everyone knows by now that WordPress 2.7 is packed with new features. Now that it’s available (almost 600,000 downloads as I write this!), it’s time to start working on 2.8. There were dozens of things that got tabled during 2.7 due to time constraints, and there are a lot of high-rated features in the Ideas forum, so there are a lot of potential features under consideration. Unable to still my curiosity, I checked the post and the related poll to see what is in store for us. One of the poll&#8217;s options is accessibility. I am not sure what accessibility means to the WP team, but any accessibility is good. Unfortunately, accessibility is only a priority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for a WordPress Accessiblility Plugin</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/12/call-for-a-wordpress-accessiblility-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it tricky to make sure that all my blog posts conform to the requirement of screen readers. Images should have properly descriptive at tags. Links should be well-named and not open the link in a new page.I am sure that this list goes on from there. Some of these things could be standardized. There is already a WordPress plugin to check for broken links. Why not a plugin to check for improperly tagged images and improperly set up links? I would write one, but I lack the skills. Fortunately, WordPress has set up a marketplace for suggestions, WordPress Ideas I have posted this suggection, Idea: Plugin to Ensure Accessiblility to Screen Readers. I would love a plugin that would work like the Broken Links plug in. It would check all images, links and other media for all the right tags (e.g. the alt tag) to make the blog more accessible to screen readers. If you have a moment, vote for my suggestion. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Call for a Printer Friendly WordPressBlogosphere AccessCall for a High-Contrast WordPress ThemeVote for WordPress AccessHigh Contrast Admin Color Scheme for [...]]]></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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