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Top tech tidbits for Thursday, July 27, 2006
1) this week's Accessibleworld free online training, Tuesday 1
August at 00:00 GMT, will be entitled Solving Digital Media Needs
with Windows Media Player, presented by Gene Asner. Archives of all
previous programs are available at the same site:
http://www.accessibleworld.org/
2) Jamal Mazrui has released version 1.2 of the JAW Script Exchange,
a free open-source program intended to assist and promote the sharing
of script files among users of JAWS.
http://www.empowermentzone.com/jsxsetup.exe
3) Wayne Merritt isn't the author of the Ranger Station blog as
reported here last week, despite the appearance of the message from
whence i garnered the information. the author of that informative
blog is Ranger1138.
http://therangerstation.blogspot.com/
4) Google has released a beta of a search engine that performs the
usual Google search as requested, but ranks the results in order of
the accessibility of the sites uncovered by the search. One of many
articles about this is here:
http://www.playfuls.com/news_03533_Google_To_Aid_The_Visually_Impaired_With_Accessible_Search.html
Meanwhile, various people on mailing lists pointed out that for a
real simple interface, they like this Google page:
http://www.google.com/ie
5) From the Desert Skies
http://www.squeet.com/redirect.aspx?redir=http%3a%2f%2fjeffbishop.net%2farchive%2f2006%2f07%2f20%2f862.aspx&f=47561&e=11777176
We learn that users of the gizmo Project
http://www.gizmoproject.com/learnmore-allcallsfree.html
in many countries can call each others' landline phones using the
software free.
6) The Thunder screen reader, free for individual use, has been
released. It works with windows 2000 and xp.
http://www.screenreader.net/
7) BlindSea is a site containing, among other things, information
about third-party programs for use on Series 60 cell phones. the
programs, many of which have free demos or are free, have been found
to mainly work with the Talks program, and many would presumably work
with Mobile Speak.
http://www.blindsea.com/
8) From the Fred's Head Companion
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FredsHeadCompanion/~3/http%3A%2F%2Ffredsheadcompanion.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F07%2Faccessible-news-from-proaxsys.html
Accessible News is a subscription-based news reader that makes
reading blogs and news sites easy. You can try it free for ten
days. Until August 14, a four-month subscription to the service costs $10.
http://www.proaxsysreader.com/accessiblenews/
9) From the same blog, we learn about I Speak It, a program for the
Mac that allows you to convert documents into mp3 files using the
Mac's built-in synthetic speech.
http://www.zapptek.com/ispeak-it/
10) ILRU of Houston houses the Disability Law Resource Project,
which has for some time produced twice-monthly video presentations on
various disability law matters. Archives, with transcripts and
related handouts, are here:
http://www.ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/archive/index.html
11) Read an interesting summary, from Access technologists Higher
Education Network, of a discussion among members of the E-text
Solutions Group of the Association of Higher Education and Disability
(AHEAD) about the present and future of book availability for
post-secondary students with disabilities.
http://athenpro.blogspot.com/2006/07/q-with-e-text-solutions-group.html
12) the Millionaire Game is free and accessible.
http://www.audiogames.net/db.php?action="">
another source for accessible games, some of them free, is
http://www.tafn.org.uk/games.htm
13) A good source for customized local tv listings, with free
registration required to build your own personal "tv guide" is titan tv
www.titantv.com.
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