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 is definitely a must-have.
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The Road Not Taken
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 broadcast this on the Desert Cafe, but it was not quite ready in time for the show.
Don’t Miss a Special New Year’s Day Desert Cafe!
Hello Everyone,
You won’t want to miss tomorrow’s special edition of the Desert Cafe show on ACB Radio Interactive. We’ll be talking about and asking all of you what
you gave and received for Christmas, playing inspirational music for the New Year and just generally having a great time. The Desert Cafe can be found on ACB Radio Interactive tomorrow (Monday) from 22:00 to 01:00 Universal time, that’s 2:00 to 5:00 PM Pacific, 3:00 to 6:00 Mountain, 4:00 to 7:00 Central and 5:00 to 8:00 Eastern time. So come on over and join us to start off the New Year just right!
Happy New Year,
Darrell, Karen and Dougie
Happy New Year!
Karen, Dougie and I would like to wish all our loyal friends and supporters a very happy, prosperous New Year in 2007!
This evening, Karen and I will listen to Marlaina’s New Year’s Eve show on ACB Radio MainStream, watch the movie When Harry Met Sally, eat snacks such as chicken wings and pizza bagle bites, take in the television coverage of New Year’s Eve in Times Square with Fox News and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, toast in the New Year with sparkling apple sider and, finally, go to bed no later than 12:30! Karen must work tomorrow, but after that we will have Tuesday and Wednesday off together.
Don’t forget to listen to Marlaina’s show coming right up in about 40 minutes on MainStream. It promises to be a great time for all!
Replay A/V 8.02 is Out and Much More Accessible!
Applian Technologies has now released Replay A/V 8.02, and it is more accessible than ever! After some initial accessibility setbacks in versions 8.0 and 8.01, Applian is getting back on track with this release.
Replay A/V 8.02 now sports a standard menu bar at the top of the window enabling access by pressing the alt key and featuring keyboard shortcuts. Previously defined alt key commands have been switch to the control key to relieve conflicts with menu shortcuts. The Application key or Shift+F10 command can now be used to access the context menu for each show in the list. My only gripe is the presence of a quirky “hints” dialogue box that pops up with a check box and OK button that do not seem to be accessible using either the space bar or enter keys. The screen readers mouse movement and left click commands must be used to access these controls. Read this Product Update notice for more details. If you are a current Replay A/V 7 user, this upgrade can now be highly recommended. We thank the folks at Applian Technologies for listening to the blind community by making Replay A/V accessible.
How to Reach Us by E-mail
It is unfortunate that, at this time, there is no permanent text on our web site providing contact information. This will be corrected by either modifying the Blogger Beta template or by way of the new layout feature once that becomes available for blogs published using FTP.
In any case, please feel free to contact us by way of the editor (at) blindaccessjournal.com e-mail address. We would be happy to hear from you directly!
Blind Access Journal Moves to Blogger Beta
The move to the new Blogger Beta has now been completed. Please feel free to e-mail us if you experience any issues or concerns.
Karen and I are also having a great time visiting with the Bishop family in Tucson.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Karen and I wish all of you a very happy Thanksgiving!
The Desert Cafe Moves to a New Time
Our show, The Desert Cafe, on ACB Radio Interactive is moving to a new time. We are about to start our regular time slot from 13:00 to 15:00 Universal, but, starting this afternoon, we are moving to 22:00 through 01:00 UTC. That’s Mondays for three hours starting at 2:00 PM Mountain, 3:00 Pacific, 4:00 PM Central and 5:00 PM Eastern. Catch us now and at our new time!
Bookshare Reaches 30,000 Accessible Titles!
Congratulations to the staff and volunteers at Bookshare for making 30,000 books available to the blind in an accessible format. See the press release for additional details. Bookshare is definitely among our favorite blindness related resources and Blind Access Journal openly endorses and encourages all blind computer users to run, not walk, on over to the web site to sign up right now!