Blogging Blind
23 June 2010Blogging while legally blind presents some interesting challenges. Generally speaking it is relatively easy to control the size of things in a browser. In WordPress, however, when you make things too big on the post editing page, the text area goes under the sidebar controls, making it impossible to see some of what you’re writing. If I make the text small enough so that doesn’t happen, it is too small for me to easily see. This, to say the least, a problem.
I’m experimenting again with Windows Live Writer in the hope that it will solve my problem. I’m writing this post with it but so far I have not found a way to make the text bigger and I can just barely read it on this 47″ screen.
If anyone is aware of a blog writing/editing tool that helps the visually impaired, by all means, please let me know about it.
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June 27th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Hi Ron,
I have been looking around for some programs that might help and I came across this list. You have probably already checked these but a few looked promising:
Thunder: Thunder helps visually impaired and blind web users navigate the Internet.
Lens: Hover your mouse over a selected area to view a magnified version.
ReadPlease: This text-to-speech software works on Windows computers.
e-Captioning: Research closed captioning and subtitling tools here.
NonVisual Desktop Access: NVDA is a free, open source screen reader that uses text-to-speech and Braille.
iZoom: With iZoom, visually impaired students can magnify their computer screens.
BIGGY: Features included in this toolkit include bigger fonts, cursors and more for your word processor.
Let me know if you can’t see these and I’ll get them to you a different way.
Hugs,
Dana