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Version 2.7
Released June 26, 2007

Fixed a corrupt zip archive being created when its location was in a
subfolder of the current folder.
Fixed Home, End, PageUp, and PageDown not working with the JAWS cursor in
the optional scripts.

Enhanced the wild card capability of filters. Previously, a * character
could be at the beginning or end of a pattern, or both, but not in the
middle (a limitation of the SQL parser built into the .NET Framework). This
restriction has been programmed around, thus allowing a pattern such as the
following:
calendar*.doc
As before, multiple, alternate filters may be separated by a | character,
e.g., calendar*.doc|*bill*

As before, Shift+T says the type of the current item in the Windows
registry, as well as its attributes such as ReadOnly, Hidden, or System.
A new command, Control+Shift+T, shows all "extended properties" of a file or
folder item that are available to Windows Explorer. Depending on the type,
32 possible properties may be examined as follows:
Name
Size
Type
Date Modified
Date Created
Date Accessed
Attributes
Status
Owner
Author
Title
Subject
Category
Pages
Comments
Copyright
Artist
Album Title
Year
Track Number
Genre
Duration
Bit Rate
Protected
Camera Model
Date Picture Taken
Dimensions
Episode Name
Program Description
Audio sample size
Audio sample rate
Channels

This week on Main Menu and Main Menu Live we focus on organization with a
Calendar, Windows Vista speech recognition, portability in traveling with
GPS and assistive technology techniques for being more efficient.

In the first half hour of Main Menu we hear from Brian Hartgen from T&T
Consultancy Limited. For those of you who are JAWS users and who are using
Office 2007 you will be especially interested in this. Brian will be
announcing here on Main Menu a set of scripts that will be available for
purchase at Sight Village 2007 giving complete access to the Outlook 2007
Calendar. In addition, Brian will talk about a low cost JAWS script
solution to Windows Vista's speech recognition interface. He will spend a
bit of time demonstrating this functionality as well.

In the next half hour on Main Menu we will hear from Earle Harrison all
about the new Way Finder Access GPS Navigation solution recently made
available for Mobile Speak Symbian phone customers.

When we visit a web site or open a document, we do much more than simply
listen to the entire text as it is spoken aloud. During the second hour on
Main Menu Live, Chris Hofstader and Karen McCall will talk with us all about
the efficiency and productivity related aspects of using screen readers and
other assistive technology. When a web page opens, what techniques do you
employ to quickly access only the information you need? This is your chance
to learn from the pros and share techniques of your own.

This will be the last Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the next few weeks as
the Main Menu production team takes some time off over the summer to spend
it with their families. We will be back in August with much more great
content.

Here is how to participate on the show. The number to call into the show is
866-400-5333. You can email your questions to mainmenu@acbradio.org. You
may also interact with the show via MSN Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to
add is mainmenu@acbradio.org.

Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the
topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the
Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is
main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com. Come join an already lively group of
users.

Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu
Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are:

Main Menu –

http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live –

http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive

Main Menu and Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00
Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal/GMT on Wednesday mornings on the
ACB Radio Main Stream channel. To listen to the show, just click this link:

http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=14:14

Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team

This week on Main Menu Live we will be presenting quite a variety of topics.

In the first hour we hear from Woody Anna Dresner from the National Braille
Press. A new book entitled "Google It! A Guide to the World's Most Popular
Search Engine" has been released and is based on Jonathan Mosen's audio
Google tutorial. We bring her on to talk to us all about this new book and
all things Google.

Next we hear from Steve Bauer, a familiar voice to many who listen to all of
the streams here at ACB Radio. We bring Steve on to talk all things radio,
that being commercial radio and HD radio. Steve works for a commercial
radio station and we ask him to talk about the issues he faces from a
blindness perspective in that area of his work.

Buckle your seatbelt everyone as we race Into the second hour on Main Menu
Live. We will talk with Che Martin from Blind Adrenaline Simulations. This
is a new accessible game software company and they are just about ready to
launch an exciting new game for everyone called Rail Racer. This is both a
single and multi-player game that is soon launching. Come listen as we
interview Che all about the game, his career, what the development process
is like in developing the game and much more, including your phone calls.

The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333. You can email your
questions to mainmenu@acbradio.org. You may also interact with the show via
MSN Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is mainmenu@acbradio.org.

Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the
topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the
Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is
main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com. Come join an already lively group of
users.

Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu
Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are:
Main Menu – http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live – http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive

Main Menu and Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00
Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal/GMT on Wednesday mornings on the
ACB Radio Main Stream channel. To listen to the show, just click this link:

http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=14:14

We will be live for this week so this week expect to see the podcast feed
only updated on the Main Menu Live feed.

Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team

Applian has just released Replay A/V version 8.20 with support for the use of YouSendIt for the purpose of exchanging recorded files. It turns out that the plugin providing this capability has been written by the YouSendIt folks. It is currently inaccessible to those of us who rely on screen readers. We ask all of you to send e-mail to freesupport@yousendit.com asking them to remedy this lack of accessibility. I am sure Applian colaborated with YouSendIt to make this work, so it is quite disappointing that accessibility was not made a requirement for integration with Replay A/V.

PR Newswire, via EarthTimes.org
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

VASCO Offers Smart Card Based e-Security to the Blind and Visually Impaired
With Digipass 840 Comfort Voice

Posted : Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:02:01 GMT
Author : VASCO Data Security International, Inc.
Category : PressRelease

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill., and ZURICH, Switzerland, June 12
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — VASCO Data Security International, Inc.
(http://www.vasco.com/), the leading software security company specializing
in authentication products, today announced that it has strengthened its
Digipass product line with Digipass 840 Comfort Voice (CV). This "speaking"
Digipass card reader is especially designed for blind and visually impaired
Internet users. The product is immediately available.

VASCO's mission is to be the Full Option, All-Terrain Authentication
company. This means that strong authentication has to be available for
everyone. The launch of Digipass 840 Comfort Voice fits perfectly with this
logic, as did the launch of Digipass 300 Comfort Voice in 2006. A person
with reduced eyesight will now be able to have the same high level of
Digipass security as other e-bank account holders or e-commerce users. All
Digipass client authentication products are supported by one and unique core
authentication engine, VACMAN Controller. This means that companies can
choose which type of client authentication device they offer to their
different user/customer segments.

Digipass 840 Comfort Voice Features: — speech based user interface; —
speech based feedback of entered data and selected functions; — e-signature
and one-time password functionality, converted into voice; — use of
built-in speaker or headset; — large display and keypad, with oversized
tactile keys; — supports Digipass standard, EMV-CAP, VISA dynamic password
authentication 1.1, German Sm@rt TAN, Belgian eID Card "Accessibility is one
of the most important success factors for any e-commerce application," said
Jan Valcke, VASCO's President and COO. "Unfortunately, few technology
vendors have an eye for the needs of visually impaired consumers. As a
consequence, this user segment doesn't reach the e-commerce vendors'
offering. By offering speech enabled Digipass client authentication
products, VASCO makes e-banking and e-commerce accessible for the blind and
visually impaired. Worldwide, over 20 leading banks already offer speech
enabled Digipasses to a part of their customer base."

About VASCO: VASCO is the number one supplier of strong authentication and
e-signature solutions and services. VASCO has established itself as the
world's leading software company specialized in Internet Security, with a
customer base of over 4,800 companies in more than 100 countries, including
close to 750 international financial institutions. VASCO's prime markets are
the financial sector, enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government.

Forward Looking Statements

Statements made in this news release that relate to future plans, events or
performances are forward-looking statements. Any statement containing words
such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," and similar words, is
forward-looking, and these statements involve risks and uncertainties and
are based on current expectations. Consequently, actual results could differ
materially from the expectations expressed in these forward-looking
statements.

Reference is made to the Company's public filings with the US Securities and
Exchange Commission for further information regarding the Company and its
operations.

For more information contact:

Jochem Binst, +32 2 609 97 40, jbinst@vasco.com VASCO Data Security
International, Inc.

CONTACT: Jochem Binst of VASCO Data Security International, Inc.,
+32-2-609-97-40, jbinst@vasco.com

Web site: http://www.vasco.com/

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,120606.shtml

Version 6.6 of the ACB Radio Tuner has been released. The main advantage to
this new version is adding support for Serotek's System Access product for
the Extra Speech option within the Tuner. In addition, an updated ACB Radio
Tuner Tutorial produced by Matt Campbell is also now available when pressing
F8. We will update the Tuner web site to include links to the older Tuner
tutorial in the next day or so. We would like to sincerely thank Serotek
for assisting us in getting these new changes into the new version of the
ACB Radio Tuner.

If you are a Window-Eyes customer and are running under Windows VISTA, then
you will want to make sure and download the patch provided by GW Micro to
correct the Extra Speech issues experienced by 6.5 Tuner users under VISTA.
You can find more information on this patch by reading this knowledge base
article:

GWKB1074 : Window-Eyes API Functions Unavailable in Windows Vista
http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/?kbnumber=GWKB1074

You can download the new version of the ACB Radio Tuner at the following
address:

http://www.acbradio.org/tuner

If you have any questions, just let us know.

Jeff Bishop
ACB Radio Webmaster

This week on Main Menu Live, we present two hours of live content.

In the first hour we bring on Jamal Mazrui. Jamal has created numerous
freeware applications like Textpal, PDF2TXT, FileDir and many more. We will
talk with Jamal all about these individual applications and you will be able
to call in and ask any questions you may have about them. We will also talk
about the landscape of programming using current screen reader technologies.

In the second hour we hear from Woody Anna Dresner from the National Braille
Press. A new book entitled "Google It! A Guide to the World's Most Popular
Search Engine" has been released and is based on Jonathan Mosen's audio
Google tutorial. We bring her on to talk to us all about this new book and
all things Google.

In the last half hour of Main Menu Live we bring on representatives from
Serotek Corporation. Mike Calvo and Matt Campbell join us to make a major
announcement from Serotek about a new technology coming from them. The Main
Menu production team has gotten a sneak peak at this new technology and we
assure you it is something not to miss.

The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333. You can email your
questions to mainmenu@acbradio.org. You may also interact with the show via
MSN Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is mainmenu@acbradio.org.

Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the
topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the
Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is:
main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Come join an already lively group of users.

Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu
Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are:

Main Menu – http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live – http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive

Main Menu and Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00
Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal/GMT on Wednesday mornings on the
ACB Radio Main Stream channel. To listen to the show, just click this link:
http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=14:14

Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team

http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/palsetup.exe

Version 3.8
Released June 9, 2007

Fixed the Yield command, Alt+Y, saying "Yield selected" when it meant "Yield
all," and vice versa (depending on whether text is selected).
Fixed the Paste command, Control+V, removing a trailing line break from text
that is inserted. Made the Copy Append and Cut Append commands, Alt+C and
Alt+X, insert a line break before appended text if none is present, thus
making it easier to identify separate chunks of text that you append to the
clipboard.

Upgraded to the latest, 1.86 version of the Ruby interpreter. Improved
documentation about regular expressions in TextPal/Ruby.

Enhanced the status command, Alt+Z, so that it indicates the state of word
wrap, as well as indent mode and selection size. As before, F8 starts a
selection and Shift+F8 completes it. Now Alt+Shift+F8 is a quick way of
returning to the point that marked the start of a selection.

Added support for programming in Java, e.g., with the Standard Widget
Toolkit (SWT). The Pick Compiler command, Control+Shift+F5, includes Java
in the list of languages, and if chosen, configures settings for
ToolCommand, ErrorPosition, AbbreviateOutput, NavigatePart, and
CommentCharacter. These and other settings may be examined and refined in
the Settings dialog, Alt+S. They may also be edited more directly and
flexibly with the Manual Settings command, Alt+Shift+M.

Jamal

Urgent action is needed to respond to the House's Legislative Branch
Subcommittee's proposed appropriations bill relating to the fiscal year 2008
budget request of the Library of Congress. As you all know the National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has been
working on a plan to convert the Talking Books program to a digital format.
The cost of this needed transition from analog cassette to digital
technology is $76.4 million over a four-year period ($19.1 million for each
of the next four years). The House Legislative Branch Subcommittee has only
included $7.5 million for this project in the bill, which passed the
subcommittee yesterday. The subcommittee also voted against an amendment
raised by Congressman Ray LaHood of Illinois that sought to include full
funding for the NLS upgrade. Not only is this amount just a third of what
was requested by the Library of Congress, but the subcommittee further gave
the Librarian of Congress the power to transfer all or part of the funds
from the Books for the Blind program to other upgrades for the Library.
Essentially, if the Librarian of Congress chooses to transfer funds from the
$7.5 million allotted for the digital conversion program, the Talking Books
program will be killed due to a lack of equipment to repair broken tape
players and the simple fact that all aspects of cassette technology will
become obsolete in the next four years.

The Legislative Branch Appropriations bill will now be presented to the full
Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday, July 12. It is imperative that we
flood the offices of Committee members and the office of Subcommittee Chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz before July 12th to urge them to include the full
funding for the digital upgrade and to protect these funds from being
shifted within the Library of Congress to meet other needs. The Talking
Books program is the largest and most essential available source of
information for blind people as a whole, and we need to protect this
information source with our greatest effort. Included below is a list of
the members on the Appropriations Committee and their office numbers.
Please contact their offices, and let them know how important the Talking
Books program is to the blind. I will update you with further information
on this initiative, but your calls should start immediately.

Thanks in advance for all of your hard work.

Jesse Hartle

Government Program Specialist

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, MD 21230

(410) 659-9314, ext. 2233

jhartle@nfb.org

House Committee on Appropriations

Full Committee – June 7, 2007

FL D, Schultz, Rep Debbie Wasserman, 202-225-7931

(alphabetical by state)

AL D, Cramer, Rep Robert E. Bud, Jr., 202-225-4801

AL R, Aderholt, Rep Robert B., 202-225-4876

AR D, Berry, Rep Marion, 202-225-4076

AZ D, Pastor, Rep Ed, 202-225-4065

CA D, Farr, Rep Sam, 202-225-2861

CA D, Honda, Rep Mike, 202-225-2631

CA D, Lee, Rep Barbara, 202-225-2661

CA D, Roybal-Allard, Rep Lucille, 202-225-1766

CA D, Schiff, Rep Adam, 202-225-4176

CA R, Calvert, Rep Ken, 202-225-1986

CA R, Lewis, Rep Jerry, 202-225-5861

CT D, DeLauro, Rep Rosa L., 202-225-3661

FL D, Boyd, Rep F. Allen, 202-225-5235

FL R, Crenshaw, Rep Ander, 202-225-2501

FL R, Weldon, Rep Dave, 202-225-3671

FL R, Young, Rep C. W. Bill, 202-225-5961

GA D, Bishop, Rep Sanford D., Jr., 202-225-3631

GA R, Kingston, Rep Jack, 202-225-5831

IA R, Latham, Rep Tom, 202-225-5476

ID R, Simpson, Rep Mike, 202-225-5531

IL D, Jackson, Rep Jesse L., Jr., 202-225-0773

IL R, Kirk, Rep Mark Steven, 202-225-4835

IL R, LaHood, Rep Ray, 202-225-6201

IN D, Visclosky, Rep Peter J., 202-225-2461

KS R, Tiahrt, Rep Todd, 202-225-6216

KY D, Chandler, Rep Ben, 202-225-4706

KY R, Rogers, Rep Hal, 202-225-4601

LA R, Alexander, Rep Rodney, 202-225-8490

MA D, Olver, Rep John W., 202-225-5335

MD D, Ruppersberger, Rep C. A. Dutch, 202-225-3061

MI D, Kilpatrick, Rep Carolyn Cheeks, 202-225-2261

MI R, Knollenberg, Rep Joe, 202-225-5802

MN D, McCollum, Rep Betty, 202-225-6631

MO R, Emerson, Rep Jo Ann, 202-225-4404

MS R, Wicker, Rep Roger F., 202-225-4306

MT R, Rehberg, Rep Dennis, 202-225-3211

NC D, Price, Rep David E., 202-225-1784

NJ D, Rothman, Rep Steve, 202-225-5061

NJ R, Frelinghuysen, Rep Rodney P., 202-225-5034

NM D, Udall, Rep Tom, 202-225-6190

NY D, Hinchey, Rep Maurice D., 202-225-6335

NY D, Israel, Rep Steve, 202-225-3335

NY D, Lowey, Rep Nita M., 202-225-6506

NY D, Serrano, Rep Jose E., 202-225-4361

NY R, Walsh, Rep James T., 202-225-3701

OH D, Kaptur, Rep Marcy, 202-225-4146

OH D, Ryan, Rep Tim, 202-225-5261

OH R, Hobson, Rep David L., 202-225-4324

OH R, Regula, Rep Ralph, 202-225-3876

PA D, Fattah, Rep Chaka, 202-225-4001

PA D, Murtha, Rep John P., 202-225-2065

PA R, Peter son, Rep John E., 202-225-5121

RI D, Kennedy, Rep Patrick J., 202-225-4911

TN R, Wamp, Rep Zach, 202-225-3271

TX D, Edwards, Rep Chet, 202-225-6105

TX D, Rodriguez, Rep Ciro D., 202-225-4511

TX R, Carter, Rep John R., 202-225-3864

TX R, Culberson, Rep John, 202-225-2571

TX R, Granger, Rep Kay, 202-225-5071

VA D, Moran, Rep Jim, 202-225-4376

VA R, Goode, Rep Virgil H., Jr., 202-225-4711

VA R, Wolf, Rep Frank R., 202-225-5136

WA D, Dicks, Rep Norm, 202-225-5916

WI D, Obey, Rep David R., Chair, 202-225-3365

WV D, Mollohan, Rep Alan B., 202-225-4172