http://EmpowermentZone.com/mtsetup.exe McTwit is a powerful, accessible client on Windows for the popular networking site twitter.com. As reported widely, Twitter has been key to the sharing of breaking news by citizens, themselves (e.g., communication by Iranians about human rights). McTwit offers nearly comprehensive access to Twitter capabilities, which are provided, not through a generic web browser interface, but through a dedicated Windows dialog that is completely accessible with screen reader programs used by blind people today. We can thereby participate fully in a popular communications medium, and benefit equally from a leading networking technology! Since the last major announcement about McTwit, it has gained many improvements from collaborative efforts. As the author, I am glad to work with anyone interested in developing an extension that implements additional features. Two leading script developers for the most popular screen readers have developed extensions that are now distributed with McTwit, as well as available separately. Jeff Bishop has developed scripts for Window-Eyes users, available at https://www.gwmicro.com/Script_Central/Scripts/Script_Details/?scriptid=1244 Brian Hartgen has developed scripts for JAWS users, available at http://hartgen.org Recently, the blind community has also produced several audio presentations about new media, Twitter, and McTwit. A piece by Erin Edgar introduces Twitter from a blindness perspective at http://BlindCoolTech.com He also appeared on ACB Radio at http://www2.acbradio.org/mainmenu/shows.php Michael Lauf podcasted on accessible Twitter tools at http://serotalk.com/podcasts/TechChat016.mp3 Jonathan Mosen organized a panel on Twitter tools from a JAWS perspective at http://www.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/fscast030-may2009.asp Rich Cavallaro did an Accessible World training on Twitter at http://accessibleworld.org/category/site-categories/tek-talk-archives Mika Pyyhkala made a presentation on new media to blind computer users at http://www.vibug.org/audio/vbg0609-c.mp3 Feature enhancements in McTwit 2.0 include the following. Managed tweets that you bookmark as favorites. Review a chain of reply tweets. Temporarily save and then restore a list of items. Determine whether someone is following another person on Twitter. Forward a tweet in an email message. Select priority tweets based on criteria you specify. Exclude junk tweets based on other criteria. Update your Twitter profile. Users report that McTwit is working with JAWS, System Access, and Window-Eyes on both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows -- including XP, Vista and Windows 7. Reports also confirm that McTwit runs on a portable media device. McTwit and its script extensions may be conveniently updated from the software, itself. The free, friendly, and portable nature of McTwit can play a useful role at the upcoming conventions of the American Council of the Blind and National Federation of the Blind. Let me suggest the "hash tags" #ACBCon and #NFBCon to help connect conversations about these events! Jamal Twitter screen name: JamalMazrui ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq