What newsletter is this? Have a great day, Alex
----- Original Message ----- From: JD Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Date sent: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:19:39 -0500 Subject: [Braillenote] newsletter now accessable
Hi:
The weekly newsletter below was not readable until last week when they started making a text version available. The regular version is html. I thought others might be interested. Note that there is a mistake, the telephone number in 1 should read 800:555:8355.
JD Townsend Helping the light dependent to see Daytona Beach, Florida, Earth
Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, January 18, 2007
1) We have a new way to find U.S. businesses by phone, and it comes from a familiar source. Now you can call TellMe (800-500-8355,) and at the main menu, say Business Search. the service is n beta, so is imperfect, but mostly it is efficient, effective and ad-free, and lets you find a specific business or search the yellow pages. 2) Learn how to choose the instant messenger client that is best for you among the various free choices on next week's Accessible World presentation, Tuesday GMT at 01:00. To take part in this free training, which will be archived for later listening as eell, drop into the TechTalk room at less-than httpccwwwddaccessibleworldddorg 3) Seminars Hadley will offer a free 45-minute program, Digital Accessibility in the Workplace, on 24 January at 20:00 gmt. Register in advance for the seminar, which will presumably be archived, at httpccwwwddhadleyddedustseminarst 4) Pc Magazine has published the Insider's Guide to Windows vista. Of course, there will be many articles and books to appear about Vista in the coming months, but I came across this one. Once you reach this page, most screen readers let you easily navigate to the print button. activating this button gives you a clear, 65,285-character version of the article httpccwwwddpcmagddcomstarticle2/0,1895,2074998,00ddasp 5) Main Menu will have a thorough discussion of windows Vista on its 31 January program, corresponding to the date when Vista is released. They will have at least two major guests and will take listener questions in advance and during the program. httpccwwwddacbradioddog 6) the people at Serotek have announced that Freedom Box System Access is the firwt screen reader to work with the windows stick keys feature. this feature allows those with impaired typing ability to press a modifier key such as alt, shift or insert, then to press the desired key on the keyboard rather than having to press both keys simultaneously. httpccwwwddfreedomboxddinfo 7) Fred's Head Companion tells us about FreebieFinder, a page which purports to find lots of offers of free stuff, eliminate those that are really spam, and give you ujp-to-the-minute offers. the rss feed here is recommended since updates happen so quickly. httpccabsurdlycoolddcom 8) A while back we mentioned the impending release of a public beta of Mobile Speak version 3.0, which works on a variety of phones running the Pocket Pc and Symbian operating systems. It's now ready for allll owners of those phones to try. httpccwwwddcodefactoryddes 9) Jamal Mazrui's TextPal text editor is now up to version 3.0, httpccwwwddEmpowermentZoneddcom/palsetupddexe and his powerful and accessible file manager, FileDir, is up to version 1.5. httpccwwwddEmpowermentZoneddcom/dirsetupddexe 10) You can download free public-domain music, mostly classical music, here: httpccwwwddmusopenddcom. 11) Golden Ear is an accessible program for either listening to or downloading podcasts. A new build of version 1 has been released. httpccbrooklynnorthddcom 12) Microsoft Office 2007 is a complete redesign of the program, so Office veterans, though they are expected to like it better in the end, may have some adjustments to make. Kelly Ford has provided a posting to his blog where he links to lists of keystrokes and other useful information about this suite which is due to come out at the end of January. httpccblogddkellyfordddorgstarchives/2007/01/6indingtheanceleddht ml. 13) EASI will hold a free clinic on making Google Maps accessible during the week of 22 January; the date wasn't specified in the announcement. Register to take part here httpcceasiddcc/clinicddhtm 14) Jim Snobarger has updated Hot Spot Clicker to version 7.6. this free tool (donations welcome!) facilitates customizing programs to work with JAWS. httpccpersonalddadiisddnetstsnowmanstHSCW-EBPageddhtml While we're at it, a lot of people used to enjoy the Snowman Radio Broadcast, a wacky smoothly-produced Internet program Jim used to produce on a weekly basis. Now he has created the Snowman Radio Retrospective audio CD which he sells for $12. Write to him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15) Fred's Head Companion alerts us to PrivatePhone, a completely free phone number and online voicemail service under the umbrella of NetZero. httpccwwwddprivatephoneddcom An individually-mailed text version of Tidbits is available to those who want it or have difficulty receiving the usual html version. Write to me to request it. Visit the Tidbits page at wwwddtopdotenterprisesddcom/tidbitsddhtm where you can subscribe to the rss feed and grab back issues. All that welcome information for future issues can come to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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