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 - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive          

 

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 live on the next marlaina

Hello folks!

I'm so glad to be back with you this memorial day weekend in the US. I've
been away for several weeks, but I plan to be here live for you right up to
the last Sunday in June, just before leaving for the ACB Convention in
Louisville. So, please come on back for these next few weeks and listen to
and talk with some very interesting guests.

And, speaking of interesting guests, the next marlaina program will happily
welcome two fascinating individuals, both of whom work very hard for ACB.
We will be discussing ACB's Committee on International Relations with Sandra
Sermons and Oral Miller, both of Washington, DC. In this day of
ever-shrinking distances, this Committee plays a vital role in making
international linkages, learning of issues faced by blind folks in other
countries, and making our international guests feel welcome at convention.
I'm looking forward to learning more about this Committee and what it may
have in store for us at the upcoming ACB Convention, July 5-12 in
Louisville.

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 save this message and 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.

Feel free to distribute this message to others whom you think may be
interested.

As always, thank you so much for your continued support of my ACB Radio
work!

Marlaina

Coming up on Main Menu for the week of May 28 - Current and Emerging Accessibility Solutions to Visual Verification

Hello Everyone,   

 

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 our 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.

 

There may be other surprise guests on this comprehensive episode, so it is definitely a show you will not want to miss!

 

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 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

It's The New Relationship Connection time, on ACB Radio Mainstream, tonight with Marilyn Volker!

Hi There,

We've reorganized to have a two-hour show time and to let me get some sleep
at an earlier hour. It's all happening on ACB Radio Mainstream, 1 to 3 UTC.
That's 9 PM EDT., 8 central, 7 mountain and 6 pacific. And, to kick off
this new time, I've got my long-time friend and mentor, sexologist Dr.
Marilyn Volker to spend at least the first hour with us.
Some of you have heard Marilyn on my shows and might remember her with me on
the Marlaina show. Marilyn is also the chair of my doctoral committee, and
continues to influence much of my thinking and direction.
She and I are also known for hilarious times as we've worked a lot together
over the years, and had many crazy adventures spending time getting lost,
laughing our heads off. So we hope you'll join us for a good time.

We'll talk about more of the barriers that get in the way of intimacy, and
some of the things the contribute to healthy relationships. We'll be taking
your questions and comments, so feel free to skype, call in, message or
email. Quite frankly, I feel a touch of a cold or something trying to get
me, and I need to stay healthy healthy healthy! I've got more calls for
work and need my strength! So bring your spirit, jump in, and help us all
have a great time. Marilyn has said she'll probably only be there for the
first hour, so in the second hour, we'll see what we want to talk about.
I've got some ideas and hope you will too!

skype: debbie_hazelton
Call in:
(if you don't need toll-free): 407 413-9336
(toll-free): 888 476-4616
msN: healinghands4u@bellsouth.net
email: dhazelton@acbradio.org

Hope to see you there!
And remember, as Marilyn says, "The most important place to feel
relationships is the space between the brain and the heart!"

All the best!
Debbie Hazelton:
Helping people feel better, one person at a time!

Blind Vine Announces New Shows at a New Time

Hello to All:

Many of you may have noticed that Blind Vine has been airing re-runs for
some time. I apologize for this, but too many things have been going on in
my life, as well as Marvelena's, and I just had to take a break. Also, the
airing time
for the original show was not successful, and that needed to be changed as
well. This took a little time and reorganization on the part of ACB Radio
staff, and I want to thank and acknowledge them publicly for helping out
with this.

Our first new program will air this coming Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream,
1:00 PM Pacific, and 4:00 PM Eastern. We couldn't have a better kickoff for
a new season of shows than the ACB success with our currency litigation.
This will be featured in a discussion with ACB's Executive Director, Melanie
Brunson. We will also try to air relevant portions of the actual decision so
you can hear
what the court had to say and why they said it. It is some very fascinating
material.

Of course, we'll also have open telephone time for your comments and
questions.

So please join me on Saturday, May 24, at 1:00 PM Pacific time on ACB Radio
Mainstream. If you tune in a bit early, you may hear an older program. The
new
shows begin airing at 1:00 pacific.

Thank you.

Chris

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 - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive         

 

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

Live Broadcasting of the Florida Council of the Blind (FCB) Annual Convention May 16 - 18, 2008

The FCB convention will be streamed live on ACB Radio World this weekend.

• On Friday May 15, 2008 at 1:30 P.M Eastern time we will stream the annual FCB legislative session. This will go until 2:45 P.M Eastern. Then we will stream the awards dinner at 6:30 P.M to 8:00 P.M eastern.


• On Saturday we will stream the following:
  
  
  
  • 8:45 A.M to 10:00 A.M eastern we will be streaming the transportation pannel.
  
  
  • 10:15 A.M to 11:15 A.M we will be streaming the library users forum.
  
  
  • 11:20 A.M to 12:20 P.M we will be streaming the advocacy workshop.
  
  
  • 1:30 P.M to 3:00 P.M eastern we will be streaming the annual town hall meeting with the division of blind services.
  
  
  • 7:00 P.M to 11:00 P.M we will be streaming the banquet and concert.
  
  


• On Sunday from 8:30 A.M to 12:00 P.M we will be streaming the FCB business meeting.

All these times are in eastern time. We will have to allow for any meeting that may run slightly over, so streaming may begin early to ensure the best possible broadcast.

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.   
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 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 May 7 - J-Say Pro 6.1, J-Tunes 3.2 and Say-Magic from T&T Consultancy

Hello Everyone,

 

Coming up on this week's Main Menu, we have a two hour recorded presentation from T&T Consultancy.  They will be giving Main Menu an exclusive first preview of the many new features within the upcoming release of J-Say Pro version 6.1.  While in many cases J-Say provides the ability to control a computer by voice, people who can use JAWS with the keyboard will also find the demonstration contains some innovative and exciting new ways in which a computer can be used in this release. The J-Say segment will form most of the presentation as there are so many new features to explain and demonstrate. They will also focus upon Say-MAGic, which is a product soon to be released enabling low vision users to work with the computer using the human voice. Finally, J-Tunes version 3.2 will be demonstrated, linking JAWS for Windows together with iTunes.

 

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 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

Congressional testimony to be carried live on ACB Radio World

Today May 1, Sergeant Major Jesse Acosta will testify on behalf of the
American Council of the Blind (ACB) in front of the
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the House Committee
on Energy and Commerce regarding the 21st Century Telecommunications and
Video Accessibility Act.

ACB Radio will be carrying this event live on ACB Radio World from
approximately 13:30 UTC, 09:30am Eastern, 06:30am Pacific today Thursday 1
May.

To listen to the stream, visit http://www.acbradio.org/world or click the
following link: http://radio.acb.org:8000/world.m3u

Your feedback on this broadcast would be very much appreciated, and we
apologize for the short notice.

Chrissie Cochrane
Managing Director
ACB Radio

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