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Blink: the viewer as blind man in installation art.(Features)
From: Art Journal Date: December 22, 2007 Author: Blocker, Jane
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-173926057.html


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Blink: The Viewer as Blind Man in Installation Art is written to examine a new concept that has entered the Contemporary Art scene; Displayed to show various audiences the effects of blindness, eyesight, and simultaneous contrast in general. Throughout the article, Blink: The Viewer as Blind Man in Installation Art, Jane Blocker of “art journal” reviews a series of installation works that have been created to effect the audience’s senses, mainly their eyesight. 
http://jenniferoconnell.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/simulation-of-blindness/

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/nyregion/22bigcity.html?ref=arts&pagewanted=print
Seeing MoMA’s Sculptures With a Distinctive Tool: Fingers
In their baseball caps and Timberlands, the five Tibetan young people giggling in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday might have been members of some kind of teen tour or youth group from abroad, chatting their way through yet another art museum, half-oblivious to its contents.
That they were taking nothing for granted, however, became apparent when their museum guide handed each of them a pair of thin polyethylene gloves. Kyila, 24, said nothing, but put her gloved hands together gently as if in silent prayer, testing the sensation. Sonam Bhumtso, a 16-year-old with a ponytail, laughed with delight as she put hers on. “It feels very nice,” she said. “And the sound!” She scrunched her hands and opened them several times, enjoying the subtle crackling. 


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Kansan's Braille flag to be placed in Arlington cemetery
When the Hutchinson man died 10 years ago at the age of 82, his wife said it was too bad that he couldn't see the flag in his final years.
Those words so stuck with his son, Randolph Cabral, that he designed a Braille flag. The tactile flag informs the blind of the flag's colors, along with the 13 stripes and 50 stars.
This spring, his bronze Braille flag will be formally dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery as a tribute to the nation's blind veterans and other Americans without sight. 
http://www.hdnews.net/Print/k1044-BC-KS-BrailleFlag-02-25-0434

exhibition information
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/NEWS02/802230331/1007
Gwen Evans, a blind artist who shows that art is in the hands of the beholder, not the eyes. Artists' Mediums, Williston. 11 a.m.-1.p.m. Free. 879-1236. 

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Web Accessibility Guidelines and Tools
http://build.exclusiveconcepts.com/WUD-Blog/?p=30

http://cwimedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/who-can-hear-your-web-site.html

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http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2415-10877_11-164199.html
Apple
Universal Access improvements
Leopard includes bolstered accessibility features, too. Besides adding a new voice that speaks more naturally at a faster pace, support has been added for Braille displays and note-taking devices. Further, voice-over commands can now be associated with numeric keypad keys using NumPad Commander.
Apple's VoiceOver feature now accentuates "hot spots" by monitoring for active windows and notifying users (via sound clues) whenever notifications or alerts are displayed on screen. VoiceOver also assists visually impaired users in navigating applications and onscreen menus.
Other accessibility improvements include expanded closed-captioning support within QuickTime, more applications (including iChat) that "speak" on screen text and VoiceOver support for .Mac online Internet and e-mail accounts. 

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The LightHouse presents the 18th annual

INSIGHTS 2007
A national juried art exhibition of works by blind and visually impaired artists 

http://www.lighthouse-sf.org/activities/insights/Insights2007.php

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http://favoritewallart.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/colors-of-motivation/
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Paul Leasure, the artist who created this fabulous artwork is color blind since birth! He has carefully developed his own special and scientific techniques to render his colors accurately.
He has employed the use of science by learning the spectral reflectance values of each of his paints.

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