[mac4theblind] Re: Fwd: [accessibleimage] photo app, cartoonist, workshop
- From: dogstar172 <dogstar172@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 10:52:05 -0400
Thank you for this post.
Very cool stuff.
Angie
On May 4, 2012, at 8:57 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
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> Subject: [accessibleimage] photo app, cartoonist, workshop
> Date: May 4, 2012 8:51:09 AM EDT
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> SuperPhoto Easy iOS Photo Sharing App Announced, Accessible to Visually
> Impaired
> Carve Gybe Software has announced the availability of SuperPhoto, a new iOS
> Universal App that they call "the simplest way to take and share photos."
> SuperPhoto follows Apple's Accessibility guidelines and allows visually
> impaired users full access to all features using VoiceOver.
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> http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2012/03/29/CG77162
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> article excerpt and link to video interview
> Visually impaired cartoonist and SF State student aspires to be published
> Patrick Ward makes himself comfortable on a bench in Cafe Rosso’s popular
> patio area, hunched merely 6 inches away from his sketchpad and intent on
> drawing his next cartoon masterpiece to add to his portfolio. He is visually
> impaired, making this no small feat.
> Ward, 28, student and cartoonist, faces unique challenges in both the
> publishing industry and the campus community.
> The graduate student has pitched his drawings to The New York Times, Union
> Democrat and Mad Magazine
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> http://www.goldengatexpress.org/author/bryanvo/
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> excerpt article
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> At Salt Lake seminar, visually impaired learn how high tech can unleash
> creativity
> Educator explains the accessibility features of devices, Apple products.
> Laura Lee Rough, like many individuals who have a visual impairment, wants to
> get the most out of the vision she has remaining. She has learned a few
> technological tricks to make her life easier through the years, but her eyes
> were opened wide Saturday during a presentation at the John A. Moran Eye
> Center in Salt Lake City.
> Luis Perez told the crowd that "people with disabilities have the right to be
> creative. It is as important as any other right to me," said the
> University of South Florida doctoral student and avid photographer, who has
> just 10 degrees of vision. "Creating something allows you to find your
> self-expression, to find your voice and to empower yourself."
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> http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/faith/53784771-80/perez-apple-vision-accessibility.html.csp
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> Photography workshop with the visually impaired
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> As I am currently working on a project that uses photography and a tool for
> social change within communities in rural Salta, I get to meet some really
> cool people. One in particular is a photographer who works with the blind.
> For those who speak Spanish, check out this blog La Mirada Invisible.
> For those who don’t, I’ll explain it briefly en inglés!
> The project stems from the ideas that we see and experience the world around
> us using more that just our eyes, and that photography is a way of
> transmitting to others out perception of the world. So, because photography a
> medium of communication it’s as much a mental process as a visual one. When
> looking at photography in this way, it opens it up to the visually impaired.
> La Mirada Invisible works using photography to overcome prejudices
> surrounding blindness, work on changing the concept of blindess within the
> community, as well as creating a new way to communicate our own subjective
> perceptions of the world.
> It’s pretty neat. Definitely makes you think.
> http://hereiswhatilearnttoday.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/photography-workshop-with-the-visually-impaired/
> website
> La Mirada Invisible
> http://integrarsalta.blogspot.com.ar/
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