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The Blind Buzz on Photography
Posted by nystagmite in Uncategorized on May 25, 2010
Blinkie Night Workshop in Melbourne – Blinkie Photography – Andrew Follows persuaded 5 sighted photographers to put on funny glasses and experience the city at night as blind photographers.
Experience | The image museum – The Alinari National Museum of Photography in Florence includes the ‘Touch museum’, where there are photographs represented by relief tactile versions – open to blind and sighted people alike.
FAQ: How do Blind Photographers Know What They Are Shooting? | Blind Photographers – Tim O’Brien explains some techniques that could be used by blind photographers.
Fisheye Connect to Launch June 1st – PPA Today – connects photographers and aspiring photographers with professional workshops internationally. Search your geographical area or by subject matter.
Improve your photography without buying gear – Craft & Vision – – ebook with 50 blog entries on improving your photography by improving your mind. $5.
New AdoramaTV Educational Videos Enhance the Adorama Learning Center – StreetInsider.com – videos to make you a better photographer.
New Photographic Exhibition – Blinkie Photography – Andrew Followswill have his own exhibition November 1st to 6th 2010 at Fortyfive Downstairs Gallery, 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne. Opening Night will be on Wednesday 3rd November (huh?)
Passionate Focus and Chicago ROCKS – Blind Eye Photography – blind photographer selected for chicago exhibit.
Photographer’s Just Do It List « Dave Cross – the website – ideas to get your creativity going. One of the suggestions is shooting blind.
Share Your Vision with people who are blind or visually impaired and Wikiscribe It! – Sighted people are invited to describe images, sighted and blind people alike can take part in the wiki and react. Maybe useful for our own images as blind photographers?
[Video] TV Feature – Blind Photography.mov – documentary where several people from London and 2 others from Leicestershire (including yours truly) talk about their experiences of blind photography.
VISIONS Memorandum in Support of New York State Licensure – New York Vision Rehabilitation Association’s Blog » Blog Archive supports blind people in keeping up activities they followed when sighted, including photography.
The Blind Buzz on Accessibility
Posted by nystagmite in Uncategorized on February 20, 2010
ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ANDROID SMARTPHONES – EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information
Adapting Sports for Blind Participation – To Ginger Irwin, All Sports are Accessible to the Visually Impaired
Blind Wiki – many kinds of resource information.
BlindWorld Blog and Podcast: iPhone Podcast 3: THE IPHONE!!! – well-stablished treasure-trove of information and reviews from Shane Jackson.
Braille karaoke lets blind croon in sync | The Japan Times Online
Braille packaging for medication – Lipogen, a cholesterol controlling medication, is the first in South Africa to get Braille labelling.
Chandigarh opens a new sensory park, for the visually challenged – northern India.
For the Visually Impaired, Money Talks – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com – this is about the
Franklin Bill Reader, which costs $300. It’s a funny way of solving your currency recognition problem – rob you of your currency first.
Handy Tech iRead – NFB Access Technology Blog – some advantages and disadvantages of this new OCR product – $750 doesn’t exactly make it cheap.
My first experience using an accessible touch screen device – Marco’s Accessibility Blog
Nick Lansley’s Technology for Tesco.com Blog: The web is a visual medium, so what are blind people doing on it? – 10 years later, Nick is telling web designers how to make their sites as good as Tesco’s. Hmmmm.
ReadSpeaker – Make your web sites, blogs, RSS feeds, digital books talk!
Sharing Solutions: Strategies for Effective Socializing Whether at Work or Play – Seminars@Hadley – Monday, 22nd Feb, 2010, 11:00 AM CST, 17:00 GMT.
][Audio] Shelly Brisbin Discusses The Arrival of iPhone 3GS Accessibility – Mac Voices #982 – this is from June 2009, but is still worth a listen.
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media
Web Developer Add-on for Firefox
WebsiteTips.com Web Design Tips, Web Page Design Tutorials CSS HTML Tutorials Website Design Tips – Web Site Resources – includes designing for accessibility.
