Blind Line

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June 2003, Jonathan Mosen's final Blind Line show featuring Jim and Marjorie Megivern, authors of People of Vision, a History of the American Council of the Blind.

23 June
2003, Chris Gray, declared candidate for ACB President.
20 June
2003, declared candidates for ACB Second Vice President and Secretary.
16
June 2003, debate between declared candidates for the position of ACB Treasurer.

28
April 2003 we discuss some of the great tours available as part of the 2003
ACB Convention

7 April 2003
Jeff Thom, President of the California Council of the BLind talks about their
upcoming Convention.
31 March
2003, callers share their favourite web sites.
10 March 2003,
Marc Mulcahy talks about the PRS software that now runs ACB Radio.
24 February
2003, ACB Executive Director Charlie Crawford talks about the complaint lodged
with the FCC against Audiovox and Verizon Wireless over inaccessible cellphones.

10 February
2003, Larry Skutchan of APH and access technology author, discusses his fascinating
career

3 February
2003, Gerald Fischman discusses developments in the treatment of retinal conditions
8 December 2002,
Allen Harris of the Iowa Department for the Blind and Chris Gray of the American
Council of the Blind speak on the Iowa Complaint.
1 December 2002,
we discuss a complaint filed against the Iowa Department for the Blind alleging
discrimination against a guide dog handler.

10 November
2002, ACB Executive Director Charlie Crawford talks about the overturning of
the Audio Description Regulations.

19 October
2002, ACB President Chris Gray

9 September
2002, we talk about the Canadian National Institute for the BLind's Electronic
Library initiatives

19 August 2002,
Jennine Stanley speaks with Ray Bautista of the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission

12 August
2002, Wendy Jones talks about making a career of public speaking.

5 August
2002, Joe Lazzzaro talks about his work with assistive technology, and his plans
to obtain a bionic vision system from the Dobelle Institute.

17 June
2002, ACB Convention Co-Ordinator Cynthia Towers talks about this year's
Convention in Houston

27 May 2002,
learn about the exciting ACB Cruise of the Caribbean

15 April 2002,
Dr. Steven Lockley discusses sleep disorders in the blind. E-mail
Steven Lockley.

8 April 2002,
Doug Geoffray of GW Micro

25 March
2002, Maryanne Diamond, Executive Director, Blind Citizens Australia

18 March
2002, Lainey Feingold talks about accessible Automatic Teller Machines

11 March
2002, Chris Gray, President of the American Council of the Blind.

4 March
2002, Doug Wakefield

11 February
2002, Andy Potok, author of the new book "A Matter of Dignity".

21 January
2002, Jim Thatcher, accessibility expert and screen reader pioneer

17
December 2001, the final Blind Line show for 2001, featuring Santa! We also
speak with former ACB President Paul Edwards.

12
November 2001, Bonnie Kearney and Lisa Mauldin of Microsoft

22 October
2001, Vaughan Dodd, President of the Association of Blind Citizens of New
Zealand

15 October
2001, Laura Oftedahl, host of ACB Reports

1 October
2001, Blind Line broadcasts from the Blind Citizens Australia Convention in
Sydney

24 September
2001, Blind Line broadcasts from Bangkok, Thailand

17
September 2001, blind people come together to discuss the tragic events in New
York and Washington

27 August
2001, Jonathan Simione, President of the National Alliance of Blind Students

20 August 2001, Jim Layton speaks with Dr Jean Bennett
about break-through genetic retinal research

6 August 2001, Ryan Kelly, who plays Jazzer in the BBC
Radio drama "The Archers"

23 July 2001, Curtis Chong of the National Federation of
the Blind speaks with Jim Layton

16 July 2001, Chris Gray, ACB President.

4 June 2001 Leroy Saunders talks about the ACB National
Convention in Des Moines

28 May 2001 Jim Snowbarger, the Snowman

21 May 2001 Jenine Stanley speaks with Pat Sheehan about
the 508 regulations

30 April 2001 Paul Edwards, President, American Council
of the Blind

26 March 2001, Jim Layton speaks with Charlie Crawford

12 March 2001, Amy Ruell talks about being a blind parent.

5 March 2001, ronnie Milsap

26 February 2001, William Jolley, Secretary-General of
the DAISY Consortium.

29 January 2001, Roger Kool, formerly one of Singapore's
top broadcasters, and now a DJ on ACB Radio Interactive.

22 January 2001, Brian Charlson, First Vice-President
of the American Council of the Blind.

18 December 2000, the Blind Line Christmas Special,
featuring Santa!

4 December 2000, Ralph Sanders, former President of the
National Federation of the Blind, now member of the American Council of the
Blind.

6 November 2000, Penny Reeder, editor of ACB's Official
publication, the Braille Forum

26 October 2000, Steve Bauer of the Telephone Reader in
Wichita. The telephone is an efficient, flexible way of getting the news you
want, when you want it. We speak with Steve Bauer about the telephone reader
service he runs.

12 October 2000, the CNIB Digital Library.

A revolution is taking place in the way blind people interact with their
special format libraries, and it seems the Canadian National Institute for
the Blind is leading the pack. This week, Blind Line features a fascinating
look at the new digital library launched by the Canadian National Institute
for the Blind in September. Our guests will be Rosemary Kavanagh, the
Executive Director of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind's
Library, and Gerry Chevalier, a member of the CNIB Library's Board of
Directors. We'll discuss the three core components of VISUNET Canada. We'll
also look at the benefits of almost all of the world's libraries moving to
DAISY, and how steps are being worked on to make the sharing of precious
special format materials easier between countries.

14 September 2000, Irwin Hott. Irwin Hott is the host
of the Newsreel cassette magazine, as well as a tech support person for Blazie
Engineering.

7 September 2000, Paul henrichsen.
Paul currently
does technical support for Kurzweil 1000, but has previously worked for Artic
Technologies, and been a vendor. he also runs a very popular FTP site for blind
people.

24 August 2000, Dennis Nelson. Dennis
operates his own production business, the Audio
production Den, and is also the technical director for Live
Stream America.

10 August 2000, Allen Little.
Allen is the director
of New Zealand's Radio Reading Service, and was also recently elected to the
board of the International Association of Audio
Information Services.

27 July 2000, Brian Hartgen, host of the ACB Radio
Infotech Show.

20 July 2000 Mike Calvo. Mike is the brain behind the
Radio Webcaster, the product that
allows you to listen to audio from your computer on any standard FM radio.

13 July 2000 open forum.

22 June 2000 Open Forum.
We discuss the impact of
the acquisition of the Arkenstone line of products by Freedom Scientific, and
share the good and bad side at airline travel.

8 June 2000 Dan Kysor. Dan speaks to us about his
background, his work in broadcasting, his role as the sysop of the Global Blind
Exchange bulletin board system, and is current work in advocacy for the
California Council of the Blind.

1 June 2000 George Kerscher. George talks with us
about the new DAISY digital talking books, an exciting innovation that has been
embraced by most major libraries for the blind.

18 May 2000 Patricia Lawrence. We speak with the
producer/presenter of the award winning Travel
Radio show, ehard here on ACB Radio.

11 May 2000 we speak with staff from the Sensory Access
Foundation. Note that due to a technical problem, this archive starts about
ten minutes through the broadcast.

27 April 2000, Dennis Brown.
Dennis
Brown has provided many people with technology advice, in his former role as the
tech support person for Microtalk, and now in his own company DB Tech. Dennis
also runs a number of lists, and the web site
blindprogramming.com.

20 April 2000, Cathy-Anne Murtha.
Cathy-anne
was one of the first blind people to put together a comprehensive
web site, Cathy's News Stand, now located at href="http://www.cathyanne.com">www.cathyanne.com. She has
also produced tutorials, and advocates strongly and effectively
for a more accessible web.

13 April 2000, Phil Troll of the National
Talking Express. We find out about this tape-based magazine
from Britain, plus plans to establish a radio station for the
blind. For the first time, the call-in portion of the show is
also available in this archive.\

1 April 2000, the Braille
Note from Pulse Data International. Jonathan Sharpe and Maurice Sloane of Pulse Data
International discuss their new Braille note taking device,
available in 18 and 32 cell versions, that runs under Windows CE
and has its own PPP e-mail client with address book and mail
filters. You can find out more about the Braille Note by visiting
www.braillenote.com

25 March 2000, Jim
Snowbarger, the Snowman.
Learn about the host of one of ACB Radio's most popular
programmes, and what makes him tick.

18 March 2000, David
Kostyshyn of Synthavoice talks about Window Bridge 2000. The first screen reader that was even written for
the Windows operating system has now been rewritten from the
ground up. Find out why, and what's new in Window Bridge 2000.
For more information, visit href="www.synthavoice.on.ca">www.synthavoice.on.ca.

11 March 2000, Michael
Feir of Audissey Magazine talks about games for the blind. For a while, there was little activity happening in
the field of computer games that blind people could play. But
there are a few games that happen to be accessible, and an
increasing number of games are being written specifically with
the blind gamer in mind. Michael's magazine covers this
fascinating topic. Archives of the magazine can be found at href="www.espsoftworks.com">www.espsoftworks.com

19 February 2000, Jamal
Mazrui. There are so many
facets to Jamal that it's little wonder this interview is one of
the longest in the Blind Line collection. Learn about Jamal, his
advocacy, his expulsion from the NFB, his web site, and the Homer
scripts that provide significant enhancements to JFW. For further
information, visit Jamal's highly acclaimed site, the Empowerment
Zone at www.empowermentzone.com.

5 February 2000, Peter
Scialli from ShrinkWrap Computers . Peter produces the cassette-based magazine
Bitstream, is a frequent and sometimes controversial participant
on Internet e-mail lists, and runs Shrinkwrap Computer Products.
Peter's web site can be found at href="www.readingmachines.com">www.readingmachines.com

29 January 2000, a
Special Report on the Unified Braille Code. Efforts are being made to unify the various
Braille codes so that there is no longer a separate code for each
technical discipline such as computing, chemistry and physics. At
the same time, attempts are also being made to standardise this
code to be the code used throughout the English speaking world.
But have the designers of the proposed new code got it right?
This Blind Line special investigates.

22 January 2000, Glen
Gordon of Henter-Joyce discusses JAWS for Windows 3.5 . This key person on the Henter-Joyce staff
discusses the JFW 3.5 release, seeks to clarify JFW's support for
the JAVA Access Bridge, and answers questions e-mailed by
listeners. Information on JAWS for Windows can be found at href="www.hj.com">www.hj.com

15 January 2000, Gregg
Vanderheiden of the Trace Research Center. Many people are seeing some degree of light at the
end of the tunnel with respect to computer access. But what about
that household appliance with the graphical menu system and the
buttons that you can't feel? When will those appliances start to
become accessible? For more information, visit the Trace Research
Centre at www.trace.wisc.edu.

18 December 1999, Guido
Corona discusses and Demonstrates IBM Home Page Reader. In this Blind Line Christmas edition, you'll hear
all about this self-voicing browser. You can find out more about
Home Page Reader by visiting www.ibm.com/sns.

11 December 1999,
Mickey Quenzer of the Productivity Works. PW Webspeak is a self-voicing web browser which
can be used with your existing speech or its own Softvoice speech.
In this interview, Mickey Quenzer puts the product through its
paces. More information about PW Webspeak can be found at href="www.prodworks.com">www.prodworks.com

4 December 1999, T V
Raman, developer of Emacspeak. Linux
is interesting an increasing number of computer users, and blind
people are no exception. Find out about one method of gaining
access to Linux, through a speech output interface called
Emacspeak. Find out why it makes Linux accessible, yet is not a
screen reader. You can visit the Emacspeak home page at href="www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html">www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html.

13 November 1999, ACB
Radio, and the NFB's AOL Law Suit. This is the last Blind Line show that was aired on
MBSFM. ACB President Paul Edwards announces ACB Radio, and we
look at the National Federation of the Blind's decision to sue
America On-line.

6 November 1999,
Stephen Bennett. What does it take
to be a blind orientation and mobility instructor? We speak with
Stephen Bennett, about to be the first blind O&M instructor
to graduate in New Zealand.

23 October 1999,
Michael Lauf. Michael Lauf is the
host of the Handitalk programme. In this interview, we speak with
Michael about his background and his hopes for the Handitalk show.
More information is available from href="www.webradiostation.com">www.webradiostation.com

16 October 1999, Paul
Edwards. Paul is the President of
the American Council of the Blind. In this extended interview
recorded during his visit to New Zealand, we speak with Paul to
find out a little about himself, we discuss some of the present
issues facing the American Council of the Blind, and look at
consumerism in general.

9 October 1999,
Jonathan Mosen. In this
turning of the tables, Dean martineau interviews Blind Line host
Jonathan Mosen about his background in broadcasting and his role
as president of the Association of Blind Citizens of New Zealand.

2 October 1999, Dean
martineau. Dean Martineau publishes
the Sound Computing magazine, has produced many high quality and
low cost tutorials, and is a frequent, helpful contributor to e-mail
lists. Dean's company, Top Dot Enterprises, can be found on the
Web at www.eskimo.com/~deamar.

18 September 1999,
Kelly Ford. Kelly is a
trainer, staunch web accessibility advocate, and a frequent
contributor to many mailing lists. Here, we find out a little
more about him and his views.

11 September 1999, Jim
Fruchterman of Arkenstone. We
look at Jim's background, the history of Arkenstone, and Openbook
Ruby edition. More information on Arkenstone and its products can
be found at www.arkenstone.org

4 September 1999,
Charlie Crawford of the American Council of the Blind. As Executive Director of the American Council of
the Blind, Charlie holds one of the world's most important
blindness-related advocacy positions. In this interview, we find
out a little about Charlie's background, and look at some of the
issues on which he and the Council are working.

28 August 1999, David
Andrews of NFBNet. David Andrews
has been facilitating electronic communication between blind
people for many years. He is involved in the CompuServe
Disabilities Forum, is sysop of NFB-Net which runs many mailing
lists for the blind, and participates in many other blindness-related
e-mail lists. NFB Net can be found at href="www.nfbnet.org">www.nfbnet.org.

21 August 1999, David
Kostashin of Synthavoice. We learn
about David's background, the history of his company which was
the first to bring a Windows screen reader to market, and we look
ahead to a total re-write of the product. Synthavoice's web site
is at www.synthavoice.on.ca

14 August 1999, Phil
Scovell. Phil has been
communicating with a computer since the golden age of Fidonet. As
publisher of the Internet Phone Book of Blind Users, moderator of
a popular mailing list, and entrepreneur, Phil still plays an
important part in the blind community. Visit his site at href="www.redwhiteandblue.org">www.redwhiteandblue.org.

7 August 1999, George
Bell of Techno-Vision Systems. When
someone has a tricky technical problem and turns to a mailing
list for help, George Bell seems able to solve it. George has
built up a very successful business in the UK in a field where it
can be difficult to stay afloat. George's company web site is at href="www.technovision.co.uk">www.technovision.co.uk

31 July 1999, Stephen
Baum of Kurzweil Educational Systems.
Stephen Baum is the prolific programmer primarily responsible for
the frequent releases and exciting new features in the Kurzweil
1000 OCR software for the blind. In this interview, we find out a
bit about Stephen, and also look at Kurzweil 1000 4.5. More
information is available from href="www.kurzweiledu.com">www.kurzweiledu.com.

24 July 1999, Ted Henter
of Henter-Joyce, makers of JAWS for Windows. We speak with this highly successful entrepreneur
who is the President of the company that makes JAWS for Windows,
one of the world's most popular screen readers. More information
on JFW can be found at www.hj.com.

17 July 1999, Doug
Geoffray of GW Micro, makers of Windoweyes. This ihttp://www.acbradio.org/archives/blindline/http://s the third Blind Line programme ever
broadcast, and the first in which we featured an interview. We
speak with Doug Geoffray, one of the founders of GW Micro, makers
of Windoweyes, one of the world's most popular screen readers. We
find out a little about Doug, the challenges of being in the
screen reading business, and plans for the future.

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