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This week, we present two hours of Main Menu Live. Join Jeff Bishop, Darrell Shandrow, Randy Knapp, Don Barrett and possibly additional guests as we talk about the announcements, exhibits, presentations and other happenings at the just-concluded CSUN conference all from a blindness perspective. So, do join us on ACB Radio Mainstream at http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=14:14 between… Finish Reading Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of March 28

Hello Everyone,   For quite some time, at least since running JAWS 8.0, I have been experiencing a very strange situation.  If I walk away and leave my system idle for a few minutes, there is no speech output when I return to continue working.  The following problems are observed:   There is absolutely no JAWS… Finish Reading Unexplained loss of JAWS functionality and strange keyboard locked scenarios.

I woke up this morning and things were not good at all from a visual perspective. Everything was very dark, even inside the house. I thought it was a very cloudy day when, in fact, the weather was clear and sunny. After about three hours of it I finally called my retinal specialist. A little… Finish Reading More Surgery Tomorrow Morning!

Coming right up on Main Menu in less than 40 minutes, Larry Skutchan from APH will talk about the Icon, BookPort II and many other interesting topics. Don’t miss it!

Here’s a quick reminder to check out Petro’s Podcasts covering the use of the very accessible Replay A/V and Replay Converter applications.

Hello everyone. This is just a quick update. I’m not doing so great today. I decided to do laundry this morning. It is the first time I’ve ventured outside completely on my own for a significant length of time. Sadly, my adventures resulted in disappointment. Though I do have a great deal more vision in… Finish Reading After Surgery – Sight is Greater but Visual Field Too Distorted to be Usable!

On Monday, Feburary 26, I underwent surgery to transplant the cornea and repair a retinal detachment in my right eye. The cornea transplant, my fifth, went very well and I required less retinal surgery than originally expected. The Vitreous was removed, the retina repositioned and lasered back into place. No silicone or other materials needed… Finish Reading Recovering From Eye Surgery

As of February 12, 2007, Plustek has released an updated driver for the OpticBook 3600 scanner, adding support for this innovative book edge scanner to run on Windows Vista. This is great news!

I’d like to take this time to express my wholehearted thanks to Allison for signing and spreading the good word about the Money for All Accessible Currency Petition on show #81 of her NosillaCast podcast. Allison and I met in November 2005 at the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference. Besides just being good people,… Finish Reading NosillaCast Covers Accessible Currency Petition

Here’s our opportunity to encourage the development of accessible XM Satellite Radio Receivers. Ralph Stewart of My Radio Store has positive contact with an XM Radio engineer who may be interested in the development of receivers that are more usable by blind and visually impaired customers. An accessible receiver would enable us to utilize all… Finish Reading Opportunity to Encourage Development of Accessible XM Radio Receivers