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Coming up on Main Menu for the week of May 21 – Replay A/V, Active To-Do List, The Onion Router and Pronto

May 18, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

Hello Everyone,     Coming up on an action packed one hour Main Menu:   * We hear from AccessWatch with a brief review of Applian’s Replay A/V recording software.* Chris Grabowski demonstrates and reviews Active To-Do List from Beiley Software.* Cory Martin demonstrates and explains the use of The Onion Router (TOR) for anonymous web… Finish Reading Coming up on Main Menu for the week of May 21 – Replay A/V, Active To-Do List, The Onion Router and Pronto

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ScripTalk Station: An Audible Prescription Reading Device To Be Demonstrated On Tek Talk May 12, 2008

May 11, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

ScripTalk Station: An Audible Prescription Reading Device To Be Demonstrated On Tek Talk May 12, 2008 The Accessible News Wire May 6, 2008, Indianapolis, Indiana USA Are you blind or visually impaired? Do you take prescription medications? Doyou know someone else who does? Are you concerned about remembering your prescription instructions and information? Are you… Finish Reading ScripTalk Station: An Audible Prescription Reading Device To Be Demonstrated On Tek Talk May 12, 2008

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Visual Verification: Seeking Advocates and Experts for May 27 ACB Radio Main Menu Program Covering CAPTCHA

May 10, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

We are planning an episode of ACB Radio’s Main Menu technology talk show covering the accessibility concerns surrounding CAPTCHA and similar visually based authentication or challenge / response systems utilized to ensure the security of Internet resources. We are seeking three or four guests who consider themselves to be experts in one or more of… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Seeking Advocates and Experts for May 27 ACB Radio Main Menu Program Covering CAPTCHA

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Visual Verification: Zone BBS Begins Using Accessible Text Based Challenge / Response Test to Support Secure Registration

May 10, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

We are happy to report that Zone BBS, a popular text based bulletin board system in the blind community, has switched from an audio / visual CAPTCHA scheme to THaCAA – Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically to ensure the security of its account registration process. Whereas the previous scheme excludes users who happen to… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Zone BBS Begins Using Accessible Text Based Challenge / Response Test to Support Secure Registration

Coming up on Main Menu for the week of May 14 – GoldWave Enhancements, Handy Address Book and Our Panel of Experts

May 10, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

Hello Everyone,    Coming up on this week’s Main Menu, our first hour is prerecorded and our second hour is live!  During the first hour, Rick Harmon tells us all about what is new in GoldWave 5.22 and the available updated JAWS scripts for that sound editing software.  Darrell Shandrow demonstrates the accessible Handy Address… Finish Reading Coming up on Main Menu for the week of May 14 – GoldWave Enhancements, Handy Address Book and Our Panel of Experts

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Visual Verification: Audio CAPTCHA Broken, How Will Web Site Operators Respond?

May 6, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

In the article Google’s Audio CAPTCHA Cracked, PC Magazine is reporting impending security challenges for a technology on which we depend in order to reasonably accomodate our need for equal access and participation on the Internet. While companies obviously work to improve the security and usability of visual CAPTCHA, what action will they take toward… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Audio CAPTCHA Broken, How Will Web Site Operators Respond?

Reminder of Friends of Bookshare Town Meeting Tonight

May 6, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

Responding to a number of inquiries, we are pleased to announce that next Tuesday, May 6, we will hold a "Town Meeting" to discuss some programming ideas for our Tuesday evening sessions. We encourage all of you to seriously consider participating in the discussion. We are especially interested in finding quality presenters of topics useful… Finish Reading Reminder of Friends of Bookshare Town Meeting Tonight

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Bookshare Volunteer Coordinator Position: Putting the Rumor Mill to Rest

May 4, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

In January of this year, I learned of an opening at Benetech to fill a position as volunteer coordinator for the Bookshare project. Of course, since Bookshare is an initiative I strongly support and have featured several times in these pages over the past three and a half years, I immediately applied for consideration. Six… Finish Reading Bookshare Volunteer Coordinator Position: Putting the Rumor Mill to Rest

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Rite Aid’s Web Site and Point of Sale Improvements Praised

May 1, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

For immediate release.  Please distribute as appropriate.   The press release below is the result of two agreements signed by Rite Aid and the American Council of the Blind (ACB), the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) and the California Council of the Blind (CCB) using Structured Negotiations.  The release and both agreements are available on… Finish Reading Rite Aid’s Web Site and Point of Sale Improvements Praised

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