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This year we are proud to present our 2008 ACB National Convention podcast covering all the general sessions, the candidates' forum and the banquet. Please visit http://www.acbradio.org/conventions to manually download these files or add http://feeds.feedburner.com/acbconventions to your favorite RSS reader or podcatching software to automatically download the files in their intended podcast form.
Once again, we at ACB Radio innovate when it comes to providing consumer organization summer convention coverage in the online connected blind community. We hope you are enjoying our broadcasts and are finding the information helpful. |
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Summer Sizzles with Serotek on ACB Radio! |
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Posted by: darrell on 06/01/2008 04:19
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Serotek's Accessible Digital Lifestyle is a hot topic and getting hotter. Here's your chance to add some sizzle to your life by participating in our online survey and enrolling to win a complete digital lifestyle makeover. Here's what you can win:
The digital lifestyle makeover is worth more than $2,000 and all you have to do is answer a few really easy questions. What's to lose? Maybe you'll get hot and warm up your life with Serotek's fully accessible
digital lifestyle.
Of course you don't have to wait to win to get access and be accessible. You can start your makeover now. This summer we're putting the fun in accessibility. If you're one of the first 100 people to sign up for Serotek's four-year software as a service (SAS) package, for only $24.95 per month, in addition to System Access Mobile for two computers; a four-year membership to the System Access Mobile Network, and Neo Speech, we'll send you a Zen Stone MP3 player at no charge. Who says accessibility is all work?
Access life with Serotek's digital lifestyle.
Start your makeover today! |
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Petition Asks Yahoo! to Reasonably Accomodate the Blind by Adding an Audio CAPTCHA |
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Posted by: darrell on 07/29/2007 08:03
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| Right now, Yahoo!'s graphical visual verification prevents full independent access by the blind and visually impaired computer user to many of the company's services. Pictures can't be interpreted or automatically conveyed using Braille or speech access devices. Until an accessible alternative is made available, people with vision loss can't see the code to be entered into the box to be granted admission. Tell Yahoo! you want them to provide an alternative way for blind users to verify their human status. If you close your eyes, don't get caught by the CAPTCHA! Please visit www.BlindWebAccess.com and sign the Yahoo! Accessibility Improvement Petition today! |
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New Promotional CD On Website |
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Posted by: mhorspool on 05/31/2007 03:20
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The 2007 ACB Radio Promotional CD is now on the website for Streaming and downloading.
The files called when streaming the CD are encoded at 24 KBPS, 22.05 KHz, Mono MP3, so they are suitable for listening by both broadband and modem users.
The downloadable version is a zip file, just under 600 MB, which contains the nine tracks of the CD in WAV files. The WAV files are encoded at 44.1 KHz, 16 Bit, Stereo, and are therefore suitable for burning to a CD.
There are a fair few updates in this CD:
- The Mainstream track (2) has been expanded a little.
- A number of new promos have been added to the Interactive track (3)and some have been removed to conform to the current schedule.
- A track has been added to promote ACB Radio World (track 6). Subsequently, tracks 6, 7 and 8 are now tracks 7, 8 and 9.
- The track concerning the ACB Radio Tuner has been completely re-recorded (Track 6 on old, 7 on new).
- A few other minor updates.
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Welcome to ACB Radio
ACB Radio showcases and nurtures the creativity and talents of the blind/low-vision community from many parts of the world. ACB Radio is heard by a global audience via the internet, and has visitors from over seventy countries. If you are a first time visitor, listen to the ACB Radio Promotional CD or read an introduction to ACB Radio and our broadcast services.
Blind and sighted People from many walks of life and a variety of backgrounds regularly tune in to ACB Radio using free software on their computer's. The chances are that you already have the software you need and you can start listening to ACB Radio immediately! You can use most media players including: Real Player, Winamp and the Windows Media Player to hear ACB Radio channels and archives. If you do not have a compatible player visit our downloads area to get a free player.
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ACB Radio Tuner lets Windows users switch easily between our services directly from the Windows desktop. All four ACB Radio channels can also be heard via the telephone, courtesy of PhoneAnything.com. To listen, callers should dial their international access code followed by +44 845 333 0855.
Visit our
on-demand section to hear archives of your favourite ACB Radio mainstream shows.
Need help or want to know how to keep up-to-date with ACB Radio? Our Support Centre provides answers to many frequently asked questions and allows you to sign-up for our free Announcements and Friends email groups.
Once again, a very warm welcome to ACB Radio. We sincerely hope you enjoy your stay and visit us often!
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ACB Radio Blog
- Changes Afoot on Main Menu
- The following note has been posted to ACB Radio public mailing lists by
Chrissie Cochrane, the station's managing director. I appreciate her good
words below. You can all be sure that, from time to time, we will be
providing content and making guest appearances on the show as we are able.Hi Folks It is with considerable regret that I have to announce that both Jeff Bishop
and Darrell shandrow are relinquishing both their production and hosting of
the now famous Main Menu show due to a steep increase in their other work
commitments. The first thing I want to do is thank both of them for their
hard work in both producing and hosting the show which has gone from
strength to strength during their tenure. I am also open to offers for anyone who is willing to take on the task of
hosting and/or preparing this prestigious show. We need people who have a
good grounding in access technology, and a knowledge of streaming on the
internet. If people are interested, and have the time and the inclination
to take on this work, please write to me at chrissie@acbradio.org. I am
very open to ideas for any changes anyone may have to the format of the
show, after all, these things do not necessarily have to stay the same from
year to year, so as I say, if you are interested in either hosting the show,
or wish to be involved in its production, please write to me at
chrissie@acbradio.org. This is a chance for someone to make a name for themselves in the access
technology field, as during Jeff and Darrell's time with the show, the
listener figures have been increasing steadily, but don't let that put you
off. Of course they will be a hard double act to follow though I'm sure
there are people out there who have ideas and would like to see them put
into reality. So, if you're interested, please write to me at chrissie@acbradio.org and
let's start yet another era of first-class Main Menu shows. Chrissie
- Coming up on Main Menu for the week of July 16 - The Icon and Our Panel of Experts
Hello Everyone, Coming up on this week's Main Menu Live, we bring you two hours of brand new content. In the first hour, Marc Mulcahy from LevelStar tells us all about the Icon accessible pocket mobile manager and portable notetaker. We welcome your questions by e-mail to mainmenu@acbradio.org prior to the broadcast, or by way of calls and MSN (Windows Live Messenger) chats during the show. In the second hour, we bring you our panel of experts to discuss all things technology from a blindness perspective with emphasis on the recently concluded summer conventions. On this show, Jeff and I will be joined by Don Barrett, Randy Knapp, Debbie Hazelton and Caroline Congdon. Jeff and I would also like to let all of you know that this episode represents our final appearances as host and co-host of Main Menu. We're all going to connect and have a great time, so this is the show you will not want to miss! Here is how to participate in the show:
The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. For this next week, only the Main Menu Live podcast feed will be updated. Our best wishes to all our loyal Main Menu listeners, Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - ACB 2008 Convention Archives and Podcast Now Complete and Ready for Your Listening Pleasure
- Hello Everyone,
All of the convention general sessions, the candidates forum and the banquet
are now available on-demand at
http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=66
They are also available on the convention podcast, which you can access
manually at
http://www.acbradio.org/conventions
or in your RSS/podcast receiver of choice at
http://feeds.feedburner.com/acbconventions Please note that, as a result of a short power outage at the convention, our
recording of Thursday's general session is still incomplete. The outage
occurred at approximately 56 minutes through our broadcast, during the
discussion of the proposed amendment to section G of article 4 of the ACB
constitution. We are currently in liaison with the sound technicians at the
convention, who have a complete recording of this session, and we therefore
hope to be able to offer a complete archive in the near future; a message
will be posted to these lists when it becomes available. As always, if you encounter any problems accessing the convention archives,
please don't hesitate to E-Mail me at
matthew (at) thehorspools.com
and I will endeavour to rectify the situation as soon as possible. Regards,
Matthew Horspool,
Archives Manager,
ACB Radio:
Where Your Listening Is Our Business
- Convention coverage continues on ACB Radio
- Hello,
We've passed the midpoint of our convention coverage, but there's stil
plenty to hear. Today on ACB Radio Mainstream, we will be covering the Wednesday general
session. The broadcast is set to begin at 12:15 Universal, that's 8:15 am
US Eastern time. The meeting will be called to order at 8:30 Eastern, and
the first half-hour or so will consist of formalities, announcements and ACB
business. From 9 we will hear from the executive director of the National
Association of Parents of Children with Visual Impairments, then we will
turn to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Entertainment is then the order
of the day, with the major focus being on books. We'll hear from the
National Library Service and The Library of Congress, and then after the
break, at 10:45 we'll hear from talking book narrator Mitzi Friedlander.
Next is a presentation on digital television, specifically on The Digital TV
Converter Box Program. Finally will be a presentation by Mike Calvo of
Serotek about the Accessibility Is A Right Foundation. If you are unable to hear our session broadcast live, you can catch one of
the repeats which begin at 17 hours Universal (1 pm Eastern) and run till
tomorrow's broadcast begins. To listen to the general sessions, visit http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream We will also have continuing coverage from the exhibit hall on ACB Radio
Interactive from 15 Universal (11 am Eastern), including the somewhat
mysterious sounding Spin the Dolphin contest. Tune into the coverage for
more info on that one. And don't forget that Dog Club Radio from Guide Dog Users Inc continues this
evening at 23 hours Universal (7 pm Eastern) on ACB Radio World
(http://www.acbradio.org/world). We hope you are enjoying our coverage and we look forward to bringing you
today's coverage and having you with us on ACB Radio, the voice of the blind
community.
- Friends in Art Showcase to Air on ACB Radio
- Hello everyone,
Once again, ACB Radio is proud to provide exclusive live coverage of the
Friends in Art showcase from the ACB Convention. Join Chrissie Cochrane and
a team of ACB Radio broadcasters as they bring you a night of performances
by blind and vision impaired performers, live on stage at the convention in
Louisville Kentucky. The broadcast will get underway at or around 23:45
Universal, that's 7:45 pm US Eastern, and will probably run for something
like 3 hours. We have set up a separate stream for this year's showcase. You will be able
to listen from the acbradio.org website or by clicking one of the following
links: Broadband stream for Winamp: http://acbradio.org/special.pls
Broadband stream for Real Player: http://acbradio.org/special.ram
Broadband stream for Windows Media player: http://acbradio.org/special.wax
Broadband stream for other players: http://acbradio.org/special.m3u Modem stream for Winamp: http://acbradio.org/special-low.pls
Modem stream for Real PLayer: http://acbradio.org/special-low.ram
Modem stream for Windows Media PLayer: http://acbradio.org/special-low.wax
Modem stream for other players: http://acbradio.org/special-low.m3u We hope you are enjoying our convention broadcasts and look forward to you
joining us for the Friends in Art Showcase, only on ACB Radio.
- It's another fascinating day at the ACB convention on ACB Radio
- Hello everyone,
We're gearing up for our Tuesday coverage of the 47th ACB Convention on ACB
Radio, and what a day it is. We kick off at 12:15 Universal, 8:15 am Eastern, with the Tuesday General
session. Highlights include the latest on the Accessible Money case, an
update from Bookshare, and a presentation on the available of accessible
recreation equipment. Also this morning will be a speech from Hon. Ben
Chandler, US House of Representatives, and presentation of ACB scholarships
which I always enjoy listening to. Our live broadcast will finish some time after 16 Universal (Noon Eastern),
with our session replays starting at 17 Universal (1 pm Eastern) and running
until tomorrow morning's broadcast. ACB Radio Interactive fires up its stream from the exhibit hall at 15 hours
Universal (11 am Eastern) today for another 6 hours of interviews, comment,
music and colour from the convention in Kentucky. Tonight you will have two choices of live content, in addition to the
general session replays. on ACB Radio World, we will again have Dog Club
Radio from Guide Dog Users inc from 23 to 03:30 Universal (7 pm to 11:30 pm
Eastern). We thank GDUI for this content and you will also be able to hear
them tomorrow and Thursday nights. Once again, ACB Radio is proud to be able to provide coverage of the Friends
in Art showcase from the ACB Convention. This year we will be setting up a
special stream to host this event. The broadcast will begin some time
around 23:45 Universal (7:45 pm Eastern). Links will be posted to the list
and appear on the acbradio.org website later in the day, so watch this
space. We hope you will find something of interest today on our coverage and look
forward to you continuing to listen to ACB Radio, the voice of the Blind
community.
- Slight schedule change to Mainstream coverage of the convention
- Hello,
We have decided to make a small change to our convention schedule for
Mainstream. Our coverage of sessions will now start at 12:15 Universal,
that's 8:15 am Eastern, rather than 15 minutes earlier. We felt that
starting so early was somewhat unnecessary and that people could hear 15
minutes more of the previous session instead.
Don't forget that today's session, which was very interesting, will start
airing from 17 Universal (1 pm Eastern) and run until 12:15 GMT tomorrow
(8:15 am Eastern), at which point we go live with tomorrow's session. To listen, visit: http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream
- ACB 2008 Convention Podcast
This year we are proud to present our 2008 ACB National Convention podcast covering all the general sessions, the candidates' forum and the banquet. Please visit http://www.acbradio.org/conventions to manually download these files or add http://feeds.feedburner.com/acbconventions to your favorite RSS reader or podcatching software to automatically download the files in their intended podcast form. Once again, we at ACB Radio innovate when it comes to providing consumer organization summer convention coverage in the online connected blind community. We hope you are enjoying our broadcasts and are finding the information helpful. - ACB Radio 2008 Convention Coverage Schedule
Hello Everyone, We're gearing up for another great year of ACB Convention coverage! In addition to exhibit hall coverage on our Interactive stream and complete live broadcasts of the general sessions on Mainstream, we will also be featuring the Friends in Art Showcase and lots of content from Guide Dog Users, Inc. All times listed are approximate and are subject to change with little or no notice. Saturday: 17 to 21 GMT (1 pm to 5 pm Eastern)
Sunday: 13 to 21 GMT (9 am to 5 pm Eastern)
Monday: 15 to 21 GMT (11 am to 5 pm Eastern)
Tuesday: 15 to 21 GMT (11 am to 5 pm Eastern)
Wednesday: 15 to 21 GMT (11 am to 5 pm Eastern)
Thursday: 13 to 17 GMT (9 am to 1 pm Eastern) Sunday 22:30 GMT (6:30 pm Eastern): Sunday general session
Monday 3 GMT (11 pm Eastern): Sunday session replays
Monday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Monday general session
Monday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Monday session replays
Tuesday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Tuesday general session
Tuesday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Tuesday session replays
Wednesday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Wednesday general session
Wednesday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Wednesday session replays
Thursday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Thursday general session
Thursday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Thursday session replays
Thursday 22:45 GMT (6:45 pm Eastern): Candidates' Forum
Friday 2:00 GMT (10:00 pm US Eastern): Thursday general session plus candidates' forum replays
Friday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Friday morning general session
Friday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Friday afternoon general session
Friday 21:30 GMT (5:30 pm Eastern): Friday general session replays
Friday 23:00 GMT (7:00 pm Eastern): ACB Annual Banquet
Saturday 2:00 GMT (10:00 pm Eastern): Friday sessions plus banquet replays
Sunday midnight GMT (8 pm Eastern): Entire convention replays The Friends in Art showcase is scheduled to begin at 8 pm Eastern (midnight GMT). We will probably begin our
broadcast at 23:45 GMT (7:45 pm Eastern). Please stay tuned for listening details. This year we'll also be taking a feed from Guide Dog Users Inc. and their daily broadcasts. This will be run on ACB Radio World, Sunday to Thursday from 23 GMT to 03:30 GMT, that's 7 pm to 11:30 pm Eastern. Here is an excerpt from one of their Emails which explains the programming further:
This will be our third year broadcasting the GDUI events and other material from the summer convention. Our broadcasts include replay of the daily events and workshops, interviews with special guests of interest in the guide dog community, listener interaction through call-in and email and special reports from throughout the convention. Visit http://www.acbradio.org/world to listen. We are looking forward to bringing the blind community another year of fantastic ACB Convention coverage! We thank you for listening. Best wishes, Darrell Shandrow
ACB Radio Co-Webmaster - ACB Radio Set To Cover The 2008 Convention
- This year's ACB convention begins this weekend, and ACB Radio will again air
the sessions on our mainstream channel, as well as broadcasting from the
exhibit hall on ACB Radio Interactive.
The first general session takes place Sunday night, but our coverage begins
Saturday on ACB Radio Interactive from the exhibit hall, where our team of
broadcasters will conduct interviews with exhibitors and convention
participants, and share their observations.
Be listening for the coverage Saturday from 17 to 21 UTC. Point your browser
to http://interactive.acbradio.org and hear what's happening as it happens.
We also plan to have extensive coverage from the exhibit hall Sunday as we
gear up for Mainstream's coverage of the convention.
The first general session begins at 7 p.m. Eastern Time Sunday night.
We'll keep you up-to-date on convention programming on the air, in the pages
of the ACB Radio Blog and on the ACB mailing lists.
The convention program and other details can be found on the web at
http://www.acb.org/convention/index.html
- Update: Coming up on Main Menu for the week of June 25 - Window-Eyes 7.0 Fully Disclosed
- Hello Everyone,
Coming up on this week's Main Menu Live, we dedicate the two hour episode to
talk all about Window-Eyes 7.0. Doug and Aaron from GW Micro will be with
us as well as many beta testers from the Window-Eyes private beta team. We
will discuss the product and the many scripts that will be available on GW
Micro's Scripting Central web site found at: http://www.gwmicro.com/Script_Central/ We had Doug and Aaron on Main Menu in the past and it is time to bring them
back to discuss the product and to get feedback from private beta users and
scripters on the new version. Jamal Mazrui has written a significant amount
of scripts for the 7.0 product and he will be here to talk about the many
things he has developed. I will discuss the newest refinements to the
Winamp scripts that will be available including features that could replace
the ACB Radio Tuner for Winamp users that use Window-Eyes as well as much
improved access to the Auto-Tagging capabilities of Winamp. Aaron and Doug
will talk all about the GW Toolkit scripting library, the AutoComplete
script, the progress indicator script, the VirtualView script, the Weather
or Not script, and much much more. As of this writing, we are happy to report that Window-Eyes 7.0 Public Beta
1 is available at the following link: http://www.gwmicro.com/beta Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The
MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the
topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the
Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is:
main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu
Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive For this next week, only the Main Menu Live podcast feed will be updated. Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific,
and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream
channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8 Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team
- Coming up on Main Menu for the week of June 25 - Window-Eyes 7.0 Fully Disclosed
- Hello Everyone,
Coming up on this week's Main Menu Live, we dedicate the two hour episode to
talk all about Window-Eyes 7.0. Doug and Aaron from GW Micro will be with
us as well as many beta testers from the Window-Eyes private beta team. We
will discuss the product and the many scripts that will be available on GW
Micro's Scripting Central web site found at: http://www.gwmicro.com/Script_Central/ We had Doug and Aaron on Main Menu in the past and it is time to bring them
back to discuss the product and to get feedback from private beta users and
scripters on the new version. Jamal Mazrui has written a significant amount
of scripts for the 7.0 product and he will be here to talk about the many
things he has developed. I will discuss the newest refinements to the
Winamp scripts that will be available including features that could replace
the ACB Radio Tuner for Winamp users that use Window-Eyes as well as much
improved access to the Auto-Tagging capabilities of Winamp. Aaron and Doug
will talk all about the GW Toolkit scripting library, the AutoComplete
script, the progress indicator script, the VirtualView script, the Weather
or Not script, and much much more. As of this writing, Window-Eyes 7.0 is not publically available, but you
will be able to see it at the conventions this summer. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The
MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the
topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the
Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is:
main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu
Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive For this next week, only the Main Menu Live podcast feed will be updated. Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific,
and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream
channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8 Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team
- Coming up on Main Menu for the week of June 18 - Accessible Cell Phones and Serotek's Accessible Digital Lifestyle
Hello Everyone, Coming up on this week's Main Menu, our first hour is prerecorded and our second hour is live! In the first hour, Shane Jackson from the Blind World Podcast interviews a panel of experts discussing their experience with accessible cell phones. In the second hour, Mike Calvo, Matt Campbell and Ricky Enger from Serotek tell us all about the accessible digital lifestyle, the Summer Sizzle promotion and the upcoming release of System Access 3.0. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - Coming Up on an Encore Edition of Main Menu
Hello Everyone, Due to some work obligations, we will not be presenting a new episode of Main Menu this week. Instead, we will replay the two hour Main Menu Live episode from February 27, 2008. Please accept our apologies and stay tuned for brand new content next week. In the first hour, we are honored to hear from Jim Fruchterman, Benetech's President and CEO, talking with us all about Bookshare, NIMAC and other projects from a blindness perspective. In the second hour, Darcy and Holly join us to discuss Apple's new MacBook Air laptop computer from an accessibility point of view. Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main
Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - On the Next Marlaina
- What a jam-packed show we have for you this evening!
We'll start off by listening to the voice of one of our beloved past
presidents, Reese Robrahn. Reese will give us an historical look back in
time regarding the formation of ACB, a bit of his own personal history as an
elected blind judge in Kansas, and share with us the great work he did for
ACB. I had the honor to call Reese my friend and to work with him in the
ACB National Office. He taught me a great deal, and it is a personal honor
to share his words with you. He was a great leader and a man of great
inspiration. Then, help me welcome Ron Milliman, who'll have a surprise to announce to us
regarding the Monthly Monetary Support Program. Following Ron, my good friend Brenda Dillon will join us to talk about the
second annual ACB Auction and picnic. Yes, I said picnic! I'm keen to find
out about that. Last year's auction was fantabulous, and I'm waiting to see
what's in store this year. Finally, Linda Braithwaite will join us to share information on the Friends
in Art offering this year at convention. We all know and love the FIA
showcase, but FIA does that and much much more. It's all happening on this week's Marlaina program. The Marlaina show is heard on ACB Radio Mainstream.
It all starts on Sunday night at 9 PM Eastern, 6 Pacific, which is Monday
morning at 1 Universal. The program will replay for 24 hours, and of course,
is available via podcast from the ACB Radio replay page. As always, we'll
take your calls at our toll-free number, 866 666 7926. Please click the link below on Sunday at 9 PM Eastern, 6 Pacific or Monday
at 1 Universal to listen. As always, thank you so much for your continued support of my ACB Radio
work! Marlaina To listen to the show, just click this link
http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=14:14
- AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS SEMINAR
AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS SEMINAR - Panel discussions about accessible software solutions that are no cost or low cost (under $200). This is the fifth in our series of technology workshops which are free and open to the public. Learn about products such as Apple's Leopard 10.5 with VoiceOver, System Access, Microsoft Accessibility tools and other options for screen magnification and screen reading systems Friday June 6, 20:00 to 22:00 UTC, 4pm to 6pm Eastern, 1:00 to 3:00pm Pacific Standard Time at the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco. You can also hear this seminar on ACB Radio World by visiting the following link:
http://radio.acb.org:8000/world - Quiet Cars on the Next Marlaina
- The issue of quiet cars is very much in the news these days. And, it is an
issue which impacts all of us.
On the next Marlaina, I will be joined by Karen Gourgey, ACB New York, and
Debbie Kent Stein, National Federation of the Blind of Illinois.
These women have been working on the quiet car issue, and have joined
forces to move this issue along and keep it on the radar screens of those
who need to be aware of the potentially life-threatening impact these hybrid
vehicles can have on people who are blind.This is such an important issue, I urge each and every listener to ACB Radio
to join me for this program, learn the facts and then what you can do. One
voice is power, many voices together are voices of empowerment with a chorus
of creating change.
The Marlaina show is heard on ACB Radio Mainstream.
It all starts on Sunday night at 9 PM Eastern, 6 Pacific, which is Monday
morning at 1 Universal. The program will replay for 24 hours, and of course,
is available via podcast from the ACB Radio replay page. As always, we'll
take your calls at our toll-free number, 866 666 7926.
Please either click the link below, or paste it into your browser directly
on Sunday at 9 PM Eastern, 6 Pacific or Monday at 1 Universal to listen.
As always, thank you so much for your continued support of my ACB Radio
work!
Marlaina
To listen to the show, just click this link or paste it into your browser
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- Coming up on Main Menu for the week of June 4 - Music
Hello Everyone, This week's Main Menu is all about downloading and listening to music on your computer. Presented by two music enthusiasts, Brian Hartgen and Anna Dresner, this programme demonstrates some of the ways in which you can access music services and software with a screen-reader. First, you will hear about J-Tunes version 3.2 from T&T Consultancy, which links the JAWS screen-reader with the iTunes music management system from Apple. You will learn how to install and use the J-Tunes product including listening to on-line radio stations, subscribing to Podcasts, purchasing tracks and albums from the iTunes Music Store and much more. You will also hear about purchasing and managing content from Amazon's MP3 store, EMusic and Napster. Find out how to use your screen-reader with these services. The discussion surrounding these services is not restricted to JAWS usage. Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - Summer Sizzles with Serotek on ACB Radio!
Serotek's Accessible Digital Lifestyle is a hot topic and getting hotter. Here's your chance to add some sizzle to your life by participating in our online survey and enrolling to win a complete digital lifestyle makeover. Here's what you can win:
The digital lifestyle makeover is worth more than $2,000 and all you have to do is answer a few really easy questions. What's to lose? Maybe you'll get hot and warm up your life with Serotek's fully accessible
digital lifestyle.
Of course you don't have to wait to win to get access and be accessible. You can start your makeover now. This summer we're putting the fun in accessibility. If you're one of the first 100 people to sign up for Serotek's four-year software as a service (SAS) package, for only $24.95 per month, in addition to System Access Mobile for two computers; a four-year membership to the System Access Mobile Network, and Neo Speech, we'll send you a Zen Stone MP3 player at no charge. Who says accessibility is all work?
Access life with Serotek's digital lifestyle.
Start your makeover today! - Reminder: Coming Up on Main Menu in a Little Under 9 Hours - CAPTCHA!
Hello Everyone, This announcement represents a friendly reminder for all of you to listen to an important, two hour live Main Menu coming right up later today. Coming up on an exciting two hour live program, we hear from a panel of technology industry experts all about CAPTCHA (visual verification) and other forms of visual authentication, accessibility challenges to existing visual verification systems, the balance between human rights and security, existing solutions for providing reasonable accomodations to visual authentication and emerging accessibility solutions. We are proud to introduce an impressive panel of experts and their primary areas of focus: * Matt May from the Adobe Systems Accessibility Team will discuss his 2005 W3C note on the inaccessibility of CAPTCHA.
* Luis von Ahn from ReCAPTCHA at Carnegie Mellon University will describe their accessible solution.
* Steve Dispensa from PhoneFactor will tell us all about an innovative, telephone based two-factor authentication system. The accessibility of CAPTCHA (visual verification schemes on the web) and other similar forms of visual authentication is a topic of utmost importance to the blind, visually impaired and others with print reading disabilities. Real, universally accessible solutions are going to require significant amounts of effort, good will and out-of-the-box thinking. We encourage active participation by the blind community, members on all sides of the issue from the mainstream technology industry and those sighted people who care about what happens to us. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
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- Changes Afoot on Main Menu
- The following note has been posted to ACB Radio public mailing lists by
Chrissie Cochrane, the station's managing director. I appreciate her good
words below. You can all be sure that, from time to time, we will be
providing content and making guest appearances on the show as we are able.Hi Folks It is with considerable regret that I have to announce that both Jeff Bishop
and Darrell shandrow are relinquishing both their production and hosting of
the now famous Main Menu show due to a steep increase in their other work
commitments. The first thing I want to do is thank both of them for their
hard work in both producing and hosting the show which has gone from
strength to strength during their tenure. I am also open to offers for anyone who is willing to take on the task of
hosting and/or preparing this prestigious show. We need people who have a
good grounding in access technology, and a knowledge of streaming on the
internet. If people are interested, and have the time and the inclination
to take on this work, please write to me at chrissie@acbradio.org. I am
very open to ideas for any changes anyone may have to the format of the
show, after all, these things do not necessarily have to stay the same from
year to year, so as I say, if you are interested in either hosting the show,
or wish to be involved in its production, please write to me at
chrissie@acbradio.org. This is a chance for someone to make a name for themselves in the access
technology field, as during Jeff and Darrell's time with the show, the
listener figures have been increasing steadily, but don't let that put you
off. Of course they will be a hard double act to follow though I'm sure
there are people out there who have ideas and would like to see them put
into reality. So, if you're interested, please write to me at chrissie@acbradio.org and
let's start yet another era of first-class Main Menu shows. Chrissie
- Coming up on Main Menu for the week of July 16 - The Icon and Our Panel of Experts
Hello Everyone, Coming up on this week's Main Menu Live, we bring you two hours of brand new content. In the first hour, Marc Mulcahy from LevelStar tells us all about the Icon accessible pocket mobile manager and portable notetaker. We welcome your questions by e-mail to mainmenu@acbradio.org prior to the broadcast, or by way of calls and MSN (Windows Live Messenger) chats during the show. In the second hour, we bring you our panel of experts to discuss all things technology from a blindness perspective with emphasis on the recently concluded summer conventions. On this show, Jeff and I will be joined by Don Barrett, Randy Knapp, Debbie Hazelton and Caroline Congdon. Jeff and I would also like to let all of you know that this episode represents our final appearances as host and co-host of Main Menu. We're all going to connect and have a great time, so this is the show you will not want to miss! Here is how to participate in the show:
The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. For this next week, only the Main Menu Live podcast feed will be updated. Our best wishes to all our loyal Main Menu listeners, Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - Friends in Art Showcase to Air on ACB Radio
- Hello everyone,
Once again, ACB Radio is proud to provide exclusive live coverage of the
Friends in Art showcase from the ACB Convention. Join Chrissie Cochrane and
a team of ACB Radio broadcasters as they bring you a night of performances
by blind and vision impaired performers, live on stage at the convention in
Louisville Kentucky. The broadcast will get underway at or around 23:45
Universal, that's 7:45 pm US Eastern, and will probably run for something
like 3 hours. We have set up a separate stream for this year's showcase. You will be able
to listen from the acbradio.org website or by clicking one of the following
links: Broadband stream for Winamp: http://acbradio.org/special.pls
Broadband stream for Real Player: http://acbradio.org/special.ram
Broadband stream for Windows Media player: http://acbradio.org/special.wax
Broadband stream for other players: http://acbradio.org/special.m3u Modem stream for Winamp: http://acbradio.org/special-low.pls
Modem stream for Real PLayer: http://acbradio.org/special-low.ram
Modem stream for Windows Media PLayer: http://acbradio.org/special-low.wax
Modem stream for other players: http://acbradio.org/special-low.m3u We hope you are enjoying our convention broadcasts and look forward to you
joining us for the Friends in Art Showcase, only on ACB Radio.
- ACB 2008 Convention Podcast
This year we are proud to present our 2008 ACB National Convention podcast covering all the general sessions, the candidates' forum and the banquet. Please visit http://www.acbradio.org/conventions to manually download these files or add http://feeds.feedburner.com/acbconventions to your favorite RSS reader or podcatching software to automatically download the files in their intended podcast form. Once again, we at ACB Radio innovate when it comes to providing consumer organization summer convention coverage in the online connected blind community. We hope you are enjoying our broadcasts and are finding the information helpful. - ACB Radio 2008 Convention Coverage Schedule
Hello Everyone, We're gearing up for another great year of ACB Convention coverage! In addition to exhibit hall coverage on our Interactive stream and complete live broadcasts of the general sessions on Mainstream, we will also be featuring the Friends in Art Showcase and lots of content from Guide Dog Users, Inc. All times listed are approximate and are subject to change with little or no notice. Saturday: 17 to 21 GMT (1 pm to 5 pm Eastern)
Sunday: 13 to 21 GMT (9 am to 5 pm Eastern)
Monday: 15 to 21 GMT (11 am to 5 pm Eastern)
Tuesday: 15 to 21 GMT (11 am to 5 pm Eastern)
Wednesday: 15 to 21 GMT (11 am to 5 pm Eastern)
Thursday: 13 to 17 GMT (9 am to 1 pm Eastern) Sunday 22:30 GMT (6:30 pm Eastern): Sunday general session
Monday 3 GMT (11 pm Eastern): Sunday session replays
Monday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Monday general session
Monday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Monday session replays
Tuesday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Tuesday general session
Tuesday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Tuesday session replays
Wednesday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Wednesday general session
Wednesday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Wednesday session replays
Thursday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Thursday general session
Thursday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Thursday session replays
Thursday 22:45 GMT (6:45 pm Eastern): Candidates' Forum
Friday 2:00 GMT (10:00 pm US Eastern): Thursday general session plus candidates' forum replays
Friday 12 GMT (8 am Eastern): Friday morning general session
Friday 17 GMT (1 pm Eastern): Friday afternoon general session
Friday 21:30 GMT (5:30 pm Eastern): Friday general session replays
Friday 23:00 GMT (7:00 pm Eastern): ACB Annual Banquet
Saturday 2:00 GMT (10:00 pm Eastern): Friday sessions plus banquet replays
Sunday midnight GMT (8 pm Eastern): Entire convention replays The Friends in Art showcase is scheduled to begin at 8 pm Eastern (midnight GMT). We will probably begin our
broadcast at 23:45 GMT (7:45 pm Eastern). Please stay tuned for listening details. This year we'll also be taking a feed from Guide Dog Users Inc. and their daily broadcasts. This will be run on ACB Radio World, Sunday to Thursday from 23 GMT to 03:30 GMT, that's 7 pm to 11:30 pm Eastern. Here is an excerpt from one of their Emails which explains the programming further:
This will be our third year broadcasting the GDUI events and other material from the summer convention. Our broadcasts include replay of the daily events and workshops, interviews with special guests of interest in the guide dog community, listener interaction through call-in and email and special reports from throughout the convention. Visit http://www.acbradio.org/world to listen. We are looking forward to bringing the blind community another year of fantastic ACB Convention coverage! We thank you for listening. Best wishes, Darrell Shandrow
ACB Radio Co-Webmaster - Update: Coming up on Main Menu for the week of June 25 - Window-Eyes 7.0 Fully Disclosed
- Hello Everyone,
Coming up on this week's Main Menu Live, we dedicate the two hour episode to
talk all about Window-Eyes 7.0. Doug and Aaron from GW Micro will be with
us as well as many beta testers from the Window-Eyes private beta team. We
will discuss the product and the many scripts that will be available on GW
Micro's Scripting Central web site found at: http://www.gwmicro.com/Script_Central/ We had Doug and Aaron on Main Menu in the past and it is time to bring them
back to discuss the product and to get feedback from private beta users and
scripters on the new version. Jamal Mazrui has written a significant amount
of scripts for the 7.0 product and he will be here to talk about the many
things he has developed. I will discuss the newest refinements to the
Winamp scripts that will be available including features that could replace
the ACB Radio Tuner for Winamp users that use Window-Eyes as well as much
improved access to the Auto-Tagging capabilities of Winamp. Aaron and Doug
will talk all about the GW Toolkit scripting library, the AutoComplete
script, the progress indicator script, the VirtualView script, the Weather
or Not script, and much much more. As of this writing, we are happy to report that Window-Eyes 7.0 Public Beta
1 is available at the following link: http://www.gwmicro.com/beta Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The
MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the
topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the
Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is:
main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu
Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive For this next week, only the Main Menu Live podcast feed will be updated. Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific,
and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream
channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8 Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
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- Coming up on Main Menu for the week of June 25 - Window-Eyes 7.0 Fully Disclosed
- Hello Everyone,
Coming up on this week's Main Menu Live, we dedicate the two hour episode to
talk all about Window-Eyes 7.0. Doug and Aaron from GW Micro will be with
us as well as many beta testers from the Window-Eyes private beta team. We
will discuss the product and the many scripts that will be available on GW
Micro's Scripting Central web site found at: http://www.gwmicro.com/Script_Central/ We had Doug and Aaron on Main Menu in the past and it is time to bring them
back to discuss the product and to get feedback from private beta users and
scripters on the new version. Jamal Mazrui has written a significant amount
of scripts for the 7.0 product and he will be here to talk about the many
things he has developed. I will discuss the newest refinements to the
Winamp scripts that will be available including features that could replace
the ACB Radio Tuner for Winamp users that use Window-Eyes as well as much
improved access to the Auto-Tagging capabilities of Winamp. Aaron and Doug
will talk all about the GW Toolkit scripting library, the AutoComplete
script, the progress indicator script, the VirtualView script, the Weather
or Not script, and much much more. As of this writing, Window-Eyes 7.0 is not publically available, but you
will be able to see it at the conventions this summer. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The
MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the
topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the
Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is:
main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu
Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive For this next week, only the Main Menu Live podcast feed will be updated. Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific,
and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream
channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8 Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team
- Coming up on Main Menu for the week of June 18 - Accessible Cell Phones and Serotek's Accessible Digital Lifestyle
Hello Everyone, Coming up on this week's Main Menu, our first hour is prerecorded and our second hour is live! In the first hour, Shane Jackson from the Blind World Podcast interviews a panel of experts discussing their experience with accessible cell phones. In the second hour, Mike Calvo, Matt Campbell and Ricky Enger from Serotek tell us all about the accessible digital lifestyle, the Summer Sizzle promotion and the upcoming release of System Access 3.0. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - Coming Up on an Encore Edition of Main Menu
Hello Everyone, Due to some work obligations, we will not be presenting a new episode of Main Menu this week. Instead, we will replay the two hour Main Menu Live episode from February 27, 2008. Please accept our apologies and stay tuned for brand new content next week. In the first hour, we are honored to hear from Jim Fruchterman, Benetech's President and CEO, talking with us all about Bookshare, NIMAC and other projects from a blindness perspective. In the second hour, Darcy and Holly join us to discuss Apple's new MacBook Air laptop computer from an accessibility point of view. Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main
Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - Coming up on Main Menu for the week of June 4 - Music
Hello Everyone, This week's Main Menu is all about downloading and listening to music on your computer. Presented by two music enthusiasts, Brian Hartgen and Anna Dresner, this programme demonstrates some of the ways in which you can access music services and software with a screen-reader. First, you will hear about J-Tunes version 3.2 from T&T Consultancy, which links the JAWS screen-reader with the iTunes music management system from Apple. You will learn how to install and use the J-Tunes product including listening to on-line radio stations, subscribing to Podcasts, purchasing tracks and albums from the iTunes Music Store and much more. You will also hear about purchasing and managing content from Amazon's MP3 store, EMusic and Napster. Find out how to use your screen-reader with these services. The discussion surrounding these services is not restricted to JAWS usage. Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - Reminder: Coming Up on Main Menu in a Little Under 9 Hours - CAPTCHA!
Hello Everyone, This announcement represents a friendly reminder for all of you to listen to an important, two hour live Main Menu coming right up later today. Coming up on an exciting two hour live program, we hear from a panel of technology industry experts all about CAPTCHA (visual verification) and other forms of visual authentication, accessibility challenges to existing visual verification systems, the balance between human rights and security, existing solutions for providing reasonable accomodations to visual authentication and emerging accessibility solutions. We are proud to introduce an impressive panel of experts and their primary areas of focus: * Matt May from the Adobe Systems Accessibility Team will discuss his 2005 W3C note on the inaccessibility of CAPTCHA.
* Luis von Ahn from ReCAPTCHA at Carnegie Mellon University will describe their accessible solution.
* Steve Dispensa from PhoneFactor will tell us all about an innovative, telephone based two-factor authentication system. The accessibility of CAPTCHA (visual verification schemes on the web) and other similar forms of visual authentication is a topic of utmost importance to the blind, visually impaired and others with print reading disabilities. Real, universally accessible solutions are going to require significant amounts of effort, good will and out-of-the-box thinking. We encourage active participation by the blind community, members on all sides of the issue from the mainstream technology industry and those sighted people who care about what happens to us. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - Coming up on Main Menu for the week of May 21 - Replay A/V, Active To-Do List, The Onion Router and Pronto
Hello Everyone, Coming up on an action packed one hour Main Menu: * We hear from AccessWatch with a brief review of Applian's Replay A/V recording software.
* Chris Grabowski demonstrates and reviews Active To-Do List from Beiley Software.
* Cory Martin demonstrates and explains the use of The Onion Router (TOR) for anonymous web surfing and Internet access.
* Johanna Särkinen tells us all about Baum's new Pronto accessible PDA. Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main
Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team - Coming up on Main Menu for the week of May 14 - GoldWave Enhancements, Handy Address Book and Our Panel of Experts
Hello Everyone, Coming up on this week's Main Menu, our first hour is prerecorded and our second hour is live! During the first hour, Rick Harmon tells us all about what is new in GoldWave 5.22 and the available updated JAWS scripts for that sound editing software. Darrell Shandrow demonstrates the accessible Handy Address Book from Beiley Software. In the second hour, it's all wide open forum with our panel of experts: Darrell Shandrow, Jeff Bishop, Rick Harmon, Cory Martin and Kevin Jones. Feel free to contact us using e-mail, MSN (Windows Live) Messenger or by phone with your burning technology questions from a blindness perspective. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
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