Friday, February 22, 2008

Coming Up on Main Menu for the Week of February 27 - Bookshare and Apple's MacBook Air

Hello Everyone, 
 
This week, we bring to all of you another two hours of brand new live content.  In the first hour, we are honored to hear from Jim Fruchterman, Benetech 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.
 
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 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 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

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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Coming Up on Main Menu for the Week of February 20th - J-Say, J-Tunes, SayMagic and more

This week on Main Menu, we have a two hour live programme where we will be
discussing products and services from T&T Consultancy Ltd in both the United
Kingdom and Australia, together with Next Generation Technologies Inc from
North America.

The companies will be discussing with us:

* The latest version of J-Say Pro which links together JAWS for Windows V9.0
and dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional V9.5. This includes access by
voice and speech feedback with Windows Vista and Office 2007.

* The companies will reveal exclusively to Main Menu the many new upcoming
features of J-Tunes version 3.2, providing access through JAWS to the iTunes
music management program.

* SayMagic is a brand new product which will be demonstrated at the
forthcoming cSUN conference and exhibition, linking together the Magic
screen magnification program with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional.

* The two companies will discuss the launch of T&T Consultancy PTY in
Australia, the relocation of T&T Consultancy Ltd in the UK to new office
premises, plans for cSUN 2008 and the J-Say training class which takes place
just prior to cSUN.

Some of the products listed above will be demonstrated live.

Anyone is very welcome to contact the programme to discuss with the
participants the above topics or any of our other products and services. It
will be a very packed and hopefully informative programme.

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

Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 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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Friday, February 15, 2008

ACB Radio World: Scheduled outage

Due to the need to perform a software upgrade on one of our servers, ACB
Radio World will be off the air for a short period some time between 10 and
12 GMT today, that's between 5 am and 7 am US Eastern and 2 am and 4 am US
Pacific time. No other ACB Radio or ACB services should be affected, and
we apologise for any inconvenience this outage may cause.

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

ACB Presidents' Meeting and National Legislative Seminar Broadcast on ACB Radio World

On February 9 and 10, the annual ACB presidents meeting was held in Washington, DC.  Among topics discussed were effective ways to do fundraising, recruit younger people to your affiliate, and a town hall meeting with all ACB officers on the Board of Directors.
 
You can hear the proceedings in their entirety starting Friday, February 15, at 18:00 UTC, that's 2 PM Eastern, 11 AM pacific in North America.  If you are interested in helping your affiliate grow, or hearing first-hand how ACB's elected officers respond to questions posed by the presidents, do take time to listen.
 
Following the Presidents meeting, ACB held its national legislative seminar. Here, ACB set forth its legislative priorities for this legislative year. These included access to the web, quiet cars, and the conversion of analogue tv to digital.  A highlight of this seminar was hearing from Dennis Shulman, a candidate for Congress from New jersey who happens to be blind.  Dennis was our luncheon speaker, and if you miss his presentation, you'll miss a lot.
 
The broadcast of the President's Meeting and Legislative Seminar can be heard at 18:00 UTC, Friday, February 15 on ACB Radio World, which is directly available at the following link: http://www.acbradio.org/world

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Coming Up on Main Menu for the Week of February 13 - K-NFB Reader, HumanWare VictorReader Stream and Serotek

Hello Everyone,
 
This week, we deliver two hours of brand new live content.  In the first hour, Earle Harrison from Handy Tech North America and Jim Gashel from KNFB Reading Technology present and discuss with us all about the new K-NFB Mobile Reader.  In the second hour, Gerry Chevalier from HumanWare and Mike Calvo from Serotek tell us all about the new features in the upcoming VictorReader Stream and its integration with the System Access Mobile Network.  Time will be made available during each hour for all of you to speak live with our guests.
 
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 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 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

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Monday, February 04, 2008

Coming Up on Main Menu for the Week of February 6 - ATIA Coverage

Hello Everyone,

This week we present a special 2 hour Main Menu Live all about things
learned at the ATIA conference in Florida. J.J. Meddaugh and Matt attended
the conference and we will be reviewing the conference with them. Here is
what you will hear among other things:

* Doug Geoffray from GW Micro announced Window-Eyes 7.0 with the major new
feature being scripting. In addition to playing an interview about this
exciting new enhancement for Window-Eyes, we provide a demonstration of
Window-Eyes 7.0 working inside of Winamp with scripts that enhance its
capabilities that will be available when Window-Eyes 7.0 releases.

* AIR (standing for Accessibility is a Right). We talk with everyone about
this new foundation and now free screen reader.

* Serotek talked all about The Accessible Digital Lifestyle and made some
major announcements.

* The new KNFB Mobile Reader that runs on a cell phone is out and we talk
all about its capabilities. We will have much more to say about this on a
future episode of Main Menu soon as well.

* We will talk about Optelec, HumanWare, Code Factory, Freedom Scientific
and more.

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

Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 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

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