This week on Main Menu, Rick Harmon from the Blind Geek Zone web site reviews the use of welcome center, ease of access center, media center, backup and restore center and speech recognition  on Windows Vista with JAWS for Windows Public Beta 2.

During the second hour of Main Menu Live, we hear an AccessWatch review of TypeAbility version 2.1.1. After that, it is all open phones with our panel of blind technology experts: Jeff Bishop, Darrell Shandrow, Don Barrett, Randy Knapp and Rick Harmon. Feel free to call into the show or send a MSN / Windows Live Message about any topic related to technology from a blindness perspective.

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Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow

The Main Menu Production Team