Posts Tagged ‘ zoom ’

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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Next in my series of iPhone app accessibility reviews is EasyWriter. The main feature of EasyWriter, as its programmers put it, is: EasyWriter makes it easy to write emails using a bigger keyboard in landscape mode. Easywriter has one other accessibility feature that the default Mail program lacks; multitouch zoom. Between landscape mode and...
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I still have not figured out which of my two lenses is best for shooting basketball games. I have now shot two b-ball assignments, a game last November and one this past week. I have used both of my lense, changing them hurriedly every fifteen minutes or so. I have the two most basic...
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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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The NY Times, along with every other news source, is reporting on the new version of Amazon’s e-book reader, the Kindle.Buried among all the other changes is one important accessibility feature: text-to-speech. According to the Times: Giving Voice to the Kindle: The Kindle 2 also has text-to-speech built in. “Any book, blog, magazine or...
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The NY Times offere a great iPhone (or iPod Touch) trick in their Tip of the Week: Easier iPhone Zooming: While the iPhone’s Safari Web browser can bring the full versions of most sites right to the palm of your hand, it can be a pain to pinch and spread your fingers all over...
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A while back, I thought I had a great idea. I still think its is a great idea, but I was beaten to it. One of the major reasons I rarely use magnification software is that I find the process disorienting. You lose either the whole screen or an important piece of it to...
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Google Earth is a profoundly visual program. It is fun to watch the program zoom in and out, moving around the planet with breathtaking visual effect. It is useful to learn about the geography, both topographic and human, of particular locations. In the end, Google Earth is fundamentally visual, so why would it be...
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To many people, web site accessibility involves screen readers. Well, not all the visually impaired were created equal. Consequently, there needs to be a variety of routes to accessibility. For me, and many others, simple changes are all that is necessary to make a site readable. Most often, easily adjustable font and color schemes...
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Image Zoom is one of my favorite Firefox accessibility extensions. In Access the Web!, I extolled the virtues of this little program. Image Zooma allows you to zoom an image in and out while it stays in place. There is no need to open it up in another window or to download it. Image...
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I am on the hunt for accessible iPhone apps. By accessible, I mean those easier to use for those of us with limited vision. Unfortunately, for now, profoundly blind users are out of luck when it comes to the iPhone. Still, you might think that the tiny screen on the iPhone is just too...
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There is no need to take the web as it comes. Fonts too small to read, color schemes that make you squint, bright white backgrounds that scream for you sunglasses, images too small to make out. These issues can be solved. You can take control. Changing colors, fonts and image size is no longer...
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To continue the theme of useful Firefox extensions, I also find myself using Image Zoom all the time. This extension adds another option to the context menu (the one that pops up when you use the right click button). With it installed, you have the option to increase the size of the image (i.e....
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At first, I did not like the new Internet Explorer (IE). It buried the accessibility options I like most (text size and ignore colors specified on webpages). There is one new redeeming feature, the new zoom. Zoom does what it says. Just like zooming in and out with your camera, zoom lets you magnify...
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