Well folks,
In spite of the holiday, the Jared Rimer network will release a 16 minute podcast on technology. This is Podcast 73 of the series. Kelly Sapergia gives us a demo of two screen readers using the Reel World web site. This was a well done demo. Let us know what you think. I’ll be back with a bigger podcast after our holiday. Enjoy.
Hi all,
I just got a voice mail from Kelly Sapergia letting me know that beta 1 of JFW is available. To take advantage of this, go to the JFW podcast on this page, and go to the release notes. There, you can get all of the information about what it offers, and you can also listen to the podcast from that page. Take care, all.
Hi all,
Podcast 72 is now available for your convenience! Its over an hour long, and we talk about JFW version 10’s new features. I want to stress that beta 1 is not available as of yet, please check the Freedom Scientific web site for more on its availability. I will post something as soon as I hear of something. We also have some sense news from GW Micro. So, enjoy the podcast, and we’ll see you on the next one.
Hi All,
Thanks to Kelly Sapergia we learn about JFW version 10 beta 1. You may read the release notes or you may listen to the Freedom Scientifix Podcast in which they talk about the latest in their product.
Introducing Sense Firmware Public Beta 1
Available for immediate release is a new firmware update to our popular Sense notetakers; Braille Sense Plus, Voice Sense, and Braille Sense (Original). This public beta release introduces many enhancements, bug fixes, and new features (including support for Audible). In addition, Sense Navigation (our popular GPS package) has many new enhancements; including new sounds, faster route creation, and the ability to turn on or off the voice prompts.
For all the details and download links to this new update, please visit the Sense notetaker public beta page located at http://www.gwmicro.com/sensebeta/public.
The only way to upgrade to this new firmware is by using the offline update. Once we officially release the firmware, both online and offline update methods will be possible.
If you have any questions, please give our technical support department a call at 260-489-3671 or send us E-mail at support@gwmicro.com.
If you haven’t already, you may consider joining the gw-notetaker mailing list where the Braille Sense Plus, Voice Sense, and Braille Sense (Original) is discussed. You can get information on joining this list at http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Email_Lists/.
Hi.
Ok.
Here is the final post before I head out.
Here are this weeks updates.
On the windows front silverlite 1 had a security update, also spywareblaster had updates and spybot.
For those that use the t timer thing and have had issues in the passed with it there is a new version of the t timer 161 component.
another miner update to skype making 154 now one the 338 series of skype things.
and that is it.
Sorry this is not as eventfull and sorry if some of this stuff is old but since I can’t post one liners anymore I needed to wait to get out something.
Note that there may be a delay when I come back to getting everything settled.
If you want to email me be aware I will not be checking my mail for 2 weeks maybe longer depending on what needs to be done here when I come back.
Also note that after I check my mail it make take me a tleast a week.
Please don’t send me any attachments during this time because I won’t be able to get them.
later all
WAKEFIELD, Mass. — August 4, 2008 — The Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA), a coalition of leading information and assistive technology companies dedicated to enabling developers to more easily create accessible software, hardware and Web products, welcomes the addition of two new steering committee members: Doug Geoffray of GW Micro and Richard Schwerdtfeger of IBM.
The five-member Steering Committee guides the AIA in its mission to improve the lives of people who can benefit from accessibility technologies. The AIA accomplishes this by encouraging the enhancement of current technologies, creating new technologies, and promoting the implementation of APIs and specifications across platforms and the accessibility industry.
“We are very pleased to have Doug and Rich join the AIA leadership team. They both have a pragmatic understanding of the technical and business challenges facing the accessibility industry today, and have a long history of working across boundaries to advance the state of the art in accessibility,” said Rob Sinclair, Chair of the Steering Committee and director of the Accessibility Business Unit at Microsoft. “Their technical expertise and long-standing relationships with members of the AIA make them highly valued additions to our Steering Committee. We look forward to working with them in this new capacity.”
Richard Schwerdtfeger is a Distinguished Engineer, the IBM Software Group Accessibility Strategist and Architect, Chair of the IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board, and a Master Inventor. His responsibilities include guiding the overall accessibility architecture and strategy for IBM Software Group and he participates in numerous W3C standards efforts including HTML, WAI Protocols and Formats, and Ubiquitous Web Applications. He chairs the W3C WAI-ARIA subcommittee accessibility effort for Web 2.0 applications as well as OASIS and IMS GLC Access for All accessibility standards efforts.
Doug Geoffray is co-owner of GW Micro, Inc. and leads the software development and product support groups. Geoffray has been developing assistive technology for more than 25 years. He currently oversees a team at GW Micro that focuses mainly on Window-Eyes, a leader in Windows screen readers.
About the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA)
Initiated by the accessibility industry, the AIA is a group of leading Information Technology (IT) and Assistive Technology (AT) companies, content providers, and other key engineering organizations, working to collaborate on the creation of solutions to long-standing compatibility problems that hinder the development of solutions for people with disabilities. Since its founding in 2007, AIA members have worked together to develop accessible technology for customers with disabilities. Founding members of AIA include Adobe Systems, BayFirst Solutions LLC, Microsoft, Novell Inc., Claro Software Ltd., Dolphin Computer Access, GW Micro, Inc., HiSoftware Inc., Madentec Inc., Texthelp Systems Inc. and QualiLife. More information about the AIA can be found at http://www.AccessInteropAlliance.org.
I will definitely give Shaun Everess something to listen to as I release Podcast 71 of the technology podcast series. get your 49mb file here. We talk about beta testing we talk about E-mail edocate, and a whole lot more. Feel free to contact me, contact info is in the podcast and also on our about page on this blog. Have a great one!
From the blind access journal We find this interesting article entitled Lotus ‘Safe & Sound’ system makes hybrid,electric vehicles audible which is a very interesting read. I haven’t read the article that Blind Access links too, but the post itself is very interesting and thought you should see this too. I wonder what we can do about this one.
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