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We urge all blind and visually impaired people living in Maricopa County to complete this Dial-a-Ride Paratransit Study online survey right away. There may be important policy changes made to Dial-a-Ride based on this ongoing study. As consumers and taxpayers, we must provide the critical input necessary to protect the services we need to receive… Finish Reading Alert: Maricopa County Regional Dial-A-Ride Online Survey

This week begins a new era for Main Menu. We begin our interactive portion during the second hour of Main Menu starting this week. First of all, whatis coming up in the first hour: We first hear from Stephen Guerra from Independent Living Aids to talk to us all about the Dora the Explorer Interactive… Finish Reading Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of January 24th

Petro has created a series of podcasts that demonstrate and teach the use of Applian’s Replay A/V 8.03 from a blind perspective. These podcasts may be reached through Petro’s blog or by adding http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/PetrosPodcasts to your podcatcher or RSS reader.

Jeff Bishop reports the following, which you all certainly will not want to miss. This week we bring Tim Cumings and his wife on to the show to talk to us all about them.  Who is Tim?  What goes into the production work for the shows we hear on Main Stream like Cooking in the… Finish Reading Catch Karen and I on the Marlaina Show This Evening!

Looks like Mike and the FreedomBox crew are fully ready for Vista! See this press release for all the juicy details.

Well… We tried Blogger’s new custom domain hosting. As many of you may know, it didn’t exactly work as expected. There was a partial outage of the journal for as long as two days for some of you. We apologize for our absence. We have returned to Blogger’s FTP hosting for the time being and… Finish Reading So Much for Custom Domain Hosting on Blogger…

We have just switched the journal over to Blogger’s new Custom Domain hosting. This move will provide greater flexibility with respect to enhancements and ongoing maintenance. Please feel free to e-mail us with any feedback.

Jamal Mazrui’s PDF2TXT tool for rapidly converting and reading PDF documents has literally saved my job! I highly encourage all of you to read Jeff Bishop’s announcement below and join him on Marlaina’s ACB Radio MainStream show to meet Jamal and learn about all his accomplishments. Hello Friends, Now that all of you have partied… Finish Reading Don’t Miss Jamal Mazrui on the January 8 Marlaina Program

The folks at Applian have released another update that represents another significant accessibility improvement. Though minor for most users, Replay A/V 8.03 resolves a critical issue involving the use of the space bar in the program’s main window. A keyboard shortcut conflict has also been resolved. If you are a Replay A/V user, this update… Finish Reading Replay A/V 8.03 Update Improves Accessibility Even Further

The poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is especially appropriate to start a brand new year. Let’s all be willing to take the road less traveled when it would be easier to walk down the path of least resistance. Listen to this reading done by Karen on New Year’s Eve. We intended to… Finish Reading The Road Not Taken