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I thought you might find the following intriguing.
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Robert
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Subject: [accessibleimage] Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize
Artistic Vision
> Blind Photographers
> http://blog.tysonwilliams.com/2009/12/27/blind-photographers/
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>
> Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision
>
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/blind-photographers/
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> When a brain tumor caused professional photographer Alex Dejong to lose
> his eyesight three years ago, he turned to gadgets to continue making his
> art.
>
> Carrying around a Nokia N82 cellphone, Dejong used assistive software to
> translate sounds into visuals in his mind. After stitching together a
> mental image of his surroundings, he snapped photos with his Canon and
> Leica digital cameras.
>
> But Dejong’s blindness is acute: He can only perceive light and dark.
> Because Dejong could not see his own photographs, he hired an assistant
> for editing. Until recently, editing was a part of the creative workflow
> that he thought he’d lost forever. And then to his surprise, Apple’s
> iPhone 3GS, which launched late June, gave him back the ability to edit
> photos.
>
> The new iPhone has a feature called VoiceOver, which reads back anything a
> user places his finger over on the screen: e-mail, web pages, system
> preferences and so on. Beyond that, photo-editing applications such as
> CameraBag and Tilt-Shift perform automated editing tasks that blind users
> like Dejong could not otherwise do on their own.
>
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