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Accessible World seeks to educate the general public, the disabled community and the professionals who serve them by providing highly relevant information about new products, services, and training opportunities designed specifically to eliminate geographic and access barriers that adversely affect them.

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Tek talk presents, The Dolfin Easy Reader by Dave Williams

February 16, 2010 02:00 - 1 hour - 24.3 MB

Learn all about Dolphin's latest version of EasyReader 5.0. This is a software digital talking book player: through a combination of text, speech and images, users read and listen to books as well as other media.

Accessible World Tek Talk Presents a Discussion of iTunes with JAWS 11 vy Brian Hartgen

February 09, 2010 02:00 - 1 hour - 23.7 MB

In 2005, long before access to iTunes was easier for visually impaired people to access than it is now, T&T Consultancy developed J-Tunes - an interface linking the popular JAWS for Windows screen-reader and the iTunes music management system.

Accessible World Tek Talk Presents Walt Kramer

February 02, 2010 02:00 - 1 hour - 33.9 MB

Walt Kramer will show us how to make most efficient use of the Windows volume control during Tek Talk on Monday, February 1, 2010.

Accessible World presents Mobilespeak Version Four by Larry Lewis

January 26, 2010 02:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MB

This week’s Tek Talk features Larry Lewis, President, Flying Blind LLC. He will be unveiling Mobilespeak Version 4, Code Factory’s globally acclaimed screen reading solution for hundreds of Mobile Phones.

Accessible World Tek Talk presents Mike May, Consumer Electronics Show

January 19, 2010 02:00 - 53 minutes - 15.4 MB

What was cool at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show from the perspective of a blind user? Mike May will talk about his 5 days of exploration around the millions of square

Accessible World Tek Talk Presents Dean Martineau

January 12, 2010 02:00 - 1 hour - 37.6 MB

Do you have a hard time picturing how a blind person can use the iPhone, the first-ever accessible touch-screen device? Do you wonder how the iPhone can enhance the quality of your life and with navigation?

Robert Acosta interviews George Buys, CEO. talking Communities

December 20, 2009 02:00 - 54 minutes - 18.8 MB

Greetings! I would like you to know what the purpose of this web site is, and a little about the people who make it a great site. Since I started this contraption, I guess I'll tell you a little about myself.

Accessible World Tek Talk Presents SoundPost by Larry Lewis, President Flying Blind LLC and Darryl Sherwood

December 15, 2009 02:00 - 54 minutes - 18.7 MB

,Tek Talk presents Larry Lewis, President Flying Blind LLC and Darryl Sherwood, founder of Povidi NZ LTD who will demonstrate the SoundPost Orientation System. SoundPost

Accessible World Tek Talk presents The NLS Player by Brian R. Albriton

December 01, 2009 02:00 - 1 hour - 30 MB

Tek Talk is very proud to feature Brian R. Albriton, Senior Reader Advisor Coordinator, Braille Institute Library to demonstrate and discuss both the basic and the advanced NLS players.

Accessible World Tek Talk presents netECHO by Larry Lewis, President, Flying Blind LLC

November 24, 2009 02:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MB

On Monday, November 23 at 8:00 p.m.

Accessible World Tek Talk presents the Apex Braillenote by HumanWare

November 17, 2009 02:00 - 1 hour - 29.7 MB

HumanWare Launches the BrailleNote Apex

Stocking Stuffers for the Holidays, Part I

November 03, 2009 02:00 - 1 hour - 38.2 MB

Accessible World is pleased to welcome you to the first part of our two part-series of Stocking Stuffers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza. We shall be presenting several vendors who will be discussing gift ideas for the holidays.

Accessible World Tek Talk presents Version 12, the newest upgrade of Kurzweil by Mr. Stephen Baum

October 27, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 35.5 MB

Tek Talk is very honored to present Mr. Stephen Baum, Vice President of Engineering of Kurzweil Educational Systems.

Accessible World Tek Talk presents Freedom Scientifics' release of Jaws 11 by Eric Damery

October 20, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 22.4 MB

Eric Damery Vice President of Software Management unveils Jaws 11.

Accessible World Tek Talk presents: Internet Explorer 8 with JAWS, Window-Eyes and System Access by Anna Dresner

October 13, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 26.7 MB

As web pages have become more complicated, screen reader manufacturers have added more and more features to help users navigate them. Some of these features are fantastic and make complicated pages easy to navigate.

Accessible World presents VRStream Bookshelf and marking concepts by Gerry Chevalier, product manager, VRStream, humanware

October 06, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 35 MB

Victor Reader Stream Bookshelf and Bookmarking Join us for an interactive session on the Victor Reader Stream with Gerry Chevalier, Product Manager from HumanWare. Gerry will begin with an overview of two of the Stream's

Accessible World presents Tek Talk: Windows 7 just weeks away by Kelly Ford

September 29, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 23.5 MB

Windows 7 is available to the public on October 22nd. Tune into a presentation from Kelly Ford from Microsoft to learn about what’s new in Windows 7 that may interest

Accessible World Tek Talk presents the latest GPS Sendero 6.0 upgrade by Charles LaPierre, CTO. Sendero Group

September 22, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 22.2 MB

Mr. Charles M.LaPierre, the CTO For The Sendero Group will presents the latest upgrade for the excellent GPS Software program. Announcing Sendero GPS 6.0 for BrailleNote Products Raising independent travel to a whole new level

Accessible World presents Touch Graphics, Tek Talk by Steve Landau

September 15, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MB

For this Tek Talk, Steve Landau will be discussing recent work by Touch Graphics, Inc. to develop a variety of innovative products, such as: a talking digital "pen" that announces place names as you touch its tip to the surface

Accessible World presents Part Two of Stocking Stuffers

September 10, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MB

Accessible World cordially invites you to our second part of Stocking Stuffers on November 9. This is an opportunity for you to shop for all of the holidays you celebrate.

Accessible World presents Tek Talk, The Orator Screen Reader by Michel Pepin, Products Manager, Humanware

September 01, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MB

In today's world access to information on the go is key and highly related to the ability to communicate via portable mobile solution.

Accessible World Presents Tek Talk, “Seeing with your Tongue” by Aimee Arnoldussen, Ph.D.

August 25, 2009 01:00 - 57 minutes - 19.9 MB

Wicab, Inc. in Middleton, WI is developing a new technology that has the potential to provide assistive benefits to blind individuals by enabling greater independence.

Accessible World Presents Bay Area Digital, Tek Talk by company president Chris Gray

August 18, 2009 01:00 - 39 minutes - 11.4 MB

Bay Area Digital LLC is an adaptive technology company working in the fields of health care and superior quality technology for the blind and visually impaired. We create our own products as well

What do you do when your computer Frezes by Rob Turner, Gene asner

August 11, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 30.9 MB

Special Event

Accessible World Presents Apple's Accessible I-Phone by Mark Taylor

August 04, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 29 MB

Mobile Phone enthusiast, Mark Taylor, will take the stage to discuss the hottest new comer to the accessible wireless device arena, Apple's iPhone 3GS.

All about Accessible Cell phones by Dean marttineau and Panelists Mark Taylor and Mike Arrigo

July 28, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MB

Do you long to enter the world of accessible cell phones, or to change to a different phone or provider, but find yourself mystified by the ever-changing array of choices and the scant available information?

An Introduction to Facebook by JoAnn Becker

July 21, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 25.1 MB

On Monday July 20th, JoAnn Becker will present an introduction to Facebook, one of the world's largest social networks. She will discuss the myriad ways in which people are using this social utility to communicate with one another.

discussed making Captchas accessible and his Solona web site by Bernard Maldonado

July 14, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 38.5 MB

During the July 13, 2009 installment of the Accessible World Tek Talk Room, Bernard Maldonado, Founder of Solona.net, the Free Captcha Solution Service for visually impaired people, talks about all aspects of Captcha.

Accessible World presents Getting The Most Of Your Talking IPod by Anna Dresner

July 07, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 29.9 MB

In September 2008, Apple released a talking iPod Nano. This was followed up in March by the release of a talking iPod Shuffle. You may wonder how accessible these players really are, or you may have one and wonder how to get the most out of it.

Accessible World presents a virtual tour of Geo Mobile by Larry Lewis, President, Flying Blind LLC

June 30, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 27.5 MB

On Monday, June 29, Larry Lewis, President, Flying Blind LLC, will take the Tek Talk audience on a virtual tour of Mobile Geo, the world's first accessible GPS solution developed for Windows Mobile, and Windows Smartphone devices.

Accessible World Tek Talk Presents BookSense by Raul A. Gallegos

June 23, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MB

BookSense enriches your life by giving you access to books, music and information to educate, inform and entertain you. Two models are offered – BookSense and BookSense XT. Both models play DAISY content, Audio

Accessible World PresentsFuturehappeningsat NLS by Judy Dixon, Consumer Relations Officer

June 16, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 21.1 MB

Accessible World Tek Talk is very pleased to present Judy Dixon, Consumer Relations Officer, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically handicapped.

Accessible World presents Eye-Pal by Louis Herrera

June 09, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 21.1 MB

Accessible World's Tek Talk is pleased to present Louis Herrera and the Eye-PAL, and Eye-PAL SOLO. The EYE-PAL is a stand-alone, computer driven scanner. It is a one-pound portable USB device.

Accessible World presents Twitter on Tek Talk by Rich Cavallaro

June 02, 2009 01:00 - 58 minutes - 20.1 MB

Accessible World's Tek Talk Training for Monday June first, 2009 is all about Twitter.

Accessible World Presents Cash managere Financial

May 29, 2009 01:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

Accessible World's Tek Talk Training for Monday May 18th 2009 introduces the latest easy to use financial software. Accomplish CashManager Financial Software is designed by accountants for small to medium size businesses.

Accessible World Presents Hadley School For the Blind by George Abbott and Amy Salmon

May 05, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 27.6 MB

Accessible World's Tek Talk is pleased to present George Abbott and Amy Salmon from the Hadley School for the Blind. George is currently Vice President of Development

Tek Talk Presents a review of Windows 7 by Rick Harmon

April 28, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 35.8 MB

Rick Harmon will be showing us the as yet to be released Windows 7 operating system from Microsoft that currently is in Beta and expected to be released by the company next month as a release candidate for general public testing.

ClassMate Reader Demonstrated on Tek Talk by Brenda McBride, Product Manager for the ClassMate Reader

April 21, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 26.3 MB

Did you know that 10% of the population have a learning disability? Come and find out more information about this "hidden" disability. A focused presentation on learning disabilities around understanding the benefits

Accessible World Presents Accessible Macintosh, by Jim Denham

April 14, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 19.8 MB

An Overview of an Accessible Leopard by Jim Denham The latest version of the Macintosh operating system, OS X 10.5, includes some incredible accessibility features.

Pete Devasto of Adobe Systems discusses the accessible Adobe Reader on Tek Talk

April 07, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 36.6 MB

Pete has been working at Adobe as a Quality Engineer for almost 5 years dealing with Accessibility of PDF documents and the use of

Say-Magic on Tek Talk by Brian Hartgen and Edward Rosenthal

March 31, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 16.6 MB

Say-MAGic - An Exciting New Product Launched at CSUN 2009

New Victor Reader Stream 3.0 by Gerry Chevalier

March 24, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 23.6 MB

HumanWare has just announced Stream 3.0 at the CSUN conference in Los Angeles and Gerry will tell us more about it. Version 3.0 includes many new features requested by happy Stream users.

HumanWare and New Stream Companion Software on Tech Talk by Gerry Chevalier, Victor Reader Product Manager at HumanWare and Don Barrett

March 17, 2009 01:00 - 1 hour - 18 MB

Learn about the newest innovations to the Stream Companion program version 3.0 soon to be released by HumanWare.

IRTI on Tektalk by Peter Proscia, IRTI President and CEO

March 10, 2009 01:00 - 56 minutes - 12.9 MB

Innovative Rehabilitation Technology Inc. (IRTI) is presenting two new low cost reading systems enabling non computer users to scan and read books and documents and create portable DAISY books for personal use.

KeySoft 8 At the Cutting Edge of Communication by Greg Stilson and Dave Wilkinson

March 03, 2009 02:00 - 1 hour - 14.9 MB

Presenters: Greg Stilson, HumanWare Product and Support Specialist Phone; 800-722-3393 [email protected]

Computer Forum - Questions dealing with all aspects of using the computer by Tek Talk Planning Team

February 24, 2009 02:00 - 1 hour - 18.2 MB

the Tek Talk Planning Team with co-hosts Joann Becker and Rick Harmon will be conducting a Computer Forum where you can present your questions dealing with all aspects of using the computer.

KNFB Reader Mobile was featured on Tek Talk by Jim Gashel and Michael Hingson

February 17, 2009 02:00 - 1 hour - 23.1 MB

During this week's Tek Talk event, Jim Gashel, Vice President of Business Development for knfb Reading Technology, Inc. and Michael Hingson, Director of National Sales

In Memory of Patricia (Pat) L. Price by Friends of Pat Price

February 17, 2009 02:00 - 2 hours - 28.5 MB

Born: August 20, 1928 Died: February 1, 2009 In Pat’s Own Words

Greg Stillson Highlights HumanWare's DeafBlind Communicator

February 03, 2009 02:00 - 1 hour - 14.7 MB

Most agree that every person should have the opportunity to fully access the world around them and have the freedom to build lasting friendships and a happy and productive life regardless of physical disabiliy.

Review of Outlook 2007 and 2003 by Denny Huff

January 27, 2009 02:00 - 1 hour - 16.5 MB

Using a computer program to read, write, and send email is probably the most repetitive task any computer user performs on a daily basis. It is, therefore, extremely desirable to choose a good email client or program and