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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.
http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2012/03/29/CG77162
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
http://www.goldengatexpress.org/author/bryanvo/
excerpt article
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."
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/faith/53784771-80/perez-apple-vision-accessibility.html.csp
Photography workshop with the visually impaired
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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Jonnie Appleseed
With His
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
Touching The Internet
Reducing Technology's disabilities
One Byte At A Time
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