[ktvt] Fw: Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, August 24, 2006

"Vy Pham" <missyguide@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:40:32 -0400

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Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, August 24, 2006
1) Here's an installment of Fred's Head Companion that provides a lot of
useful information about using Google.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FredsHeadCompanion/~3/15667038/getting-more-out-of-google_23.html
2) the same source also tells us about mail.com, now testing a web-mail
service to allow e-mail in 11 languages to be read aloud.
http://www.mail.com/
3) the next Accessible World free online training will concern SendSpace, a
service that allows you to send large files to others via the net. The
training starts at 00:00 gmt, Tuesday, 29 August.
http://www.accessibleworld.org/
4) Serotek, makers of the Freedom Box, is seeking sales representatives.
Send a current resume to them at employment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
5)A new article has been posted to the Gw Micro Knowledge Base: How To
Enable Bluetooth on the Small-Talk Ultra
http://gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/?kbnumber=GWKB1049
6) Jamal Mazrui is developing JAWS scripts for Visual Studio

2005. You can download the installer for the work so far here;
http://www.empowermentzone.com/msenv2005.exe
7) Andrew Kirkpatrick from Adobe has written a couple accessible versions
of the Hangman game using Flash, and he would like people to test them to
see which they prefer. You can find more information on this entry in the
Adobe Accessibility blog
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2006/08/two_accessible_flash_games_whi.html
8) the Jernigan Institute's National Center for Blind youth in Science
portal is found at http://www.blindscience.org/
9) You can read an article about Nuance Communication's Scansoft Pdf
Converter Professional 4, a $100 package which allows for converting pdf
documents to speech and for creating pdf documents that are friendly to
screen readers. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6107260.html
10) Jeff Bishop reports in The Desert Skies that Microsoft has released a
release candidate for Internet Explorer 7.0, and that his testing is bearing
positive results. You can download Internet Explorer 7 from the Microsoft
Download Center.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=94e5bf41-2907-4415-8f72-da7c2c2ace09&displaylang=en
11) We talked last week about Model Talker, the software speech synthesizer
that lets you use your own voice. Josh can share JAWS scripts for the
Invtool program that you use to create the voices, and may be able to
explain how to make the program work with screen readers
<jkenn337@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
12) All in Play has created its third online game usable by the blind,
Texas Hold'em. You can get a fifteen-day free account to try the service.
http://allinplay.com/unsub.php?u=
13) CHS-TV will air an 8-hour old-time radio program marathon starting
Friday 25 August stateide and repeating throughout the weekend. Click
chs-tv, then chs-radio to listen. http://www.carthageisd.org/
14) DeWitt & Associates is offering a two-day, $400 workshop in Midland
Park, NJ entitled LEARNING MS EXCEL WHILE USING JAWS, 25 and

26 September. Call Maria at 1-877-447-6500.
15) Here is an article by Joe Clark in which he challenges the effectives
of the Web Accessibility guidelines version 2:
http://alistapart.com/articles/tohellwithwcag2
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