SeroTalk Podcast 62: An Aria on Aria

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In Podcast 62 for March 1st  2011, Michael Lauf and Ricky enger covered:

Delta Airlines fined $2 million for disabilities violations

Accessibility Law Suit Filed Against Jet Blue Airways

Blind Passengers Sue United Airlines

Disney Parks Technology Recognized by American Foundation for the Blind

Blog Post: Disney’s disregard for web accessibility

Amid protests, Should Facebook allow users to post anonymously

Why Qwitter doesn’t have facebook support

Never Mind CAPTCHA, Facebook asks if you know your friends

Accessibility info for upcoming South By Southwest conference

skype talking

Skype Access to 500,000+ Wi-Fi Hotspots

Fideliphone 1.0.0-rc12 released

Confessions of an Apple store employee

Apple’s 2011 supplier report: child workers, bribes, “involuntary labor


Verizon offers free iPhone 4 with FiOS TV, Internet, phone bundles


Apple rumored to be evaluating 3 new iPhone prototypes, one with slideout keyboard


LockerGnome Top 5 Free GPS Navigation iPhone Apps


iPad 2 media event to be held March 2


Serotek is looking for Mac/IOS developers, CSR, sales and support team members. Email resume to employment@serotek.com.


SeroTalk Tech Chat 91: Accessible Online Games with Sound for the Blind


Tech Chat 90 with Kevin Chao and Darrell Shandrow: Accessible Books for Everyone Part 2


Software allowing U.s. residents to legally convert Kindle books to html


Kindle e-book piracy accelerates


Amazon 5,000 movie and TV show streaming service for $79 for Annual Prime Members


Google announces One Pass, rival to Apple’s subscription service giving publishers 90% of revenue


Google music service expected to launch with Honeycomb and Xoom


National Braille Press is looking for Android users to test some apps. Email Lindsay Broyhill lbroyhill@nbp.org


FCC To Propose Rules for Video Description Reinstatement on TV at Mar 3 Open Meeting


Internet streams of IVI over-the-air broadcasts illegal


Music Unlimited launches in US, Australia and New Zealand


Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 hits Windows Update


IE9 assistive technology enhancements


New survey by @AccessWGBH asks your opinion on using speech synthesis for description of web-based video


IBM Free Voice Transcription Manager: Real-time transcripts of a conversation


Cobra Screen Reader with Braille=$749, Cobra zoom=$749 and Cobra Pro with both braille and magnification+$849


Nuance Releases Talks 5.20 for Symbian Phones


Blind man tackles house burglars


9 Successful Techniques for Making Money from Podcasting


Finally, we conclude with an interview with Davy Kager and ARign with


Top Speed 3 Audio Racing Game from www.PlayingInTheDark.net


 

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SeroTalk Tech Chat 92: This Month in Access Tech, for February 2011

Steve Sawczyn with the Assistive Technology Show, Live Wednesdays from 7 to 9PM Using Ventrilo Voice Chat,

and Randy Rusnak, cohost and Producer of the Accessible Devices Podcast, join us to share their thoughts on the big tech stories for February 2011

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SeroTalk Tech Chat 91: Accessible Online Games with Sound for the Blind

Tech Chat 91 covered games with sound created for the blind.

Our guests were

Liam Erven with L-Works, Affordable Games for the Blind

Michael Forzano with RS Games, Makers of Monopoly, Uno, BlackJack and Yahtzee

Michael Feir, Creator and First Editor of Audyssey Magazine

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SeroTalk Tech Chat 91: Accessible Online Games with Sound for the Blind

Tech Chat 91 Covers games with sound created for the blind and low vision community. Guests will include Liam Erven with

L-works Affordable Games for the Blind

and

RS Games

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SeroTalk Tech Chat 90: Accessible Books for Everyone Part II

In Tech Chat 90,

Kevin Chao

and Darrell Shandrow

cover the latest options for reading electronic books including:
amazon books on the PC, latest accessible iOS apps for reading, bookshare on the Mac, RFB&D on the PC and Mac, Audible,
publicly available audio books and electronic texts and online book sites.
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SeroTalk Tech Chat 90: Accessible Books for Everyone Part II

Tech Chat 90 covers latest options for reading electronic books including: amazon books on the PC, latest iOS apps, bookshare on the Mac, RFB&D on the PC and Mac, publicly available audio books and electronic texts, Audible, NLS Bard, online book reviews and even a comparison of portable speakers that make your books sound better.
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Urgen Announcement for Vipre Users

The latest definitions for Vipre Antivirus from Sunbelt Software are flagging System Access as a trojan. this means if you reboot your computer, you will not have speech and will likely need sighted assistance. You may wish to run another screen reader to give permission to Vipre to allow System Access. You may even consider disabling Vipre, or even uninstalling Vipre until they have resolved the problem they have created.. we are in contact with Sunbelt Software at this late hour in the hope of resolving the issue asap. 
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SeroTalk Podcast 61: Useless Piece of Plastic

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In Podcast 61, Michael Lauf and Ricky cover a nunber of news stories:

Tech Chat 89: Latest with Bookshare and Initiatives from Jim Fruchterman

Tech Chat 88: with Rodney and Erin Edgar from Tech Access Weekly: This Month in Access Technology for January 2011

SeroTalk Tech Chat 87 on 2011 ATIA Highlights with Brad Hodges, Dean Martineau, larry Lewis and Joe Steinkamp

First Ten SeroTalk Interviews from ATIA 2011

Four atia11 Interviews with Handy Tech North America, Dolphin Computer Access, Dancing Dots and Baum

Four atia11 Multi-Product Vendors: LS&S Group, APH, Perkins Products and EnableMart

Final Seven ATIA 2011 Interviews

Listen to the great atia 2011 Interviews from BlindBargains

Latest iBlink Radio 2.03 includes ability to submit crash reports

Evaluation of DocuScan Plus: A Read Anywhere Program, by Deborah Kendrick – AccessWorld – February 2011

Pay with your Phone? Near Field Communications: a technology primer

Notable decline of identity fraud

FTC asked to investigate kids and in-app purchases

European publishers call out Apple over in-app subscriptions

2011 conference schedule for assistive technology events

NFB driving challenge press conference

Blind Bargains Guide to Attending csun 11 on a Budget

CSUN Tweetup

Using Twitter to help you find that next job

A T Guys Now Offering Like-new classic Perkins Braille Writers with 1 Year Warranty for $299

Colorado researchers begin study of accessible appliances

NVDA 2011.1beta2 released

Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 Now Available

Google brings mostly accessible speaking, listening Translate app to iPhone

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 released. Accessible MSI installer for Windows

4 versions of Firefox in 2011

Windows 7 SP1 coming Feb 22, new Windows Thin PC coming Q1

Manufacturers get Windows 7 service pack

Open Letter To PC Makers: Ditch The Bloatware

Nokia Partners with Microsoft to use Windows Phone 7

No mention of accessibility in latest Kindle update v3.1! Email kindle-feedback@amazon.com

Full help including keyboard commands for the Accessible Kindle PC app

Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin

Amazon expected to roll out Netflix-like streaming service soon

Apple wants a cut of Amazon and Sony e-book sales

Call 415-986-7057 and express your concerns about lack of accessibility in the dropbox app for the Mac.
Inaccessible iPad newsstand “The Daily” finally makes debut at 99 cents per week

BBC releases iPlayer app for the UK only

Skype 5.0 for Mac released with UI tweaks

Useful tips for using Skype 5.x with screen readers

Apple’s Accessibility guide for Mac applications

Submit your feedback encouraging accessibility for Documents2Go Office suite on iDevices

Apple releases iTunes 10.1.2 with fixes and support for Verizon iPhone

Verizon iPhone Review by Peter bossley

Apple relaxing repair policy for iPods with triggered liquid sensors

Looking for a free audio converter for the Mac? Try Max

Download Chess-wise, Checker-wise, Draughts-wise and Xiangqi-wise games, accessible with Voiceover

Verizon will penalize data speeds for heaviest users

Verizon quietly begins throttling data

AT&T announces plan with unlimited voice calls to any mobile number

Lawsuit accuses AT&T of overcharging iPhone, iPad customers for data use

AT&T to expand tethering data cap to 4GB for $45 per month

Free Last.fm service on mobile devices to be free no more

What to expect inside the iPhone 5

Apple now manufacturing next-gen iPads

Apple rumored to hold “small event” in March to usher in new iPad

Apple granted patent where carriers bid for iPhone service

Moscone event calendar suggests Apple may hold WWDC 2011 June 5-9

10 Cases Compatible With the Verizon iPhone

Extra stories not mentioned in the podcast:

13 reasons why software is not free

73% of organizations hacked in the last 2 years

Tips and Accessible Resources to Buying Food Online

Stop Internet Explorer from bleeding Windows memory

StuartLawler posts The First produced Blackberry and Oratio tutorial

More VoiceOver Tutorials from David Woodbridge from Vision Australia

 

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SeroTalk Tech Chat 89: Jim Fruchtermen Discusses Bookshare and Other Initiatives

In Tech Chat 89, Jim Fruchterman with

Benetech

RaisingTheFloor.net

discusses increasing the amount of U.S. and Global reading content.

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Final Seven ATIA 2011 Interviews

Here you go folks, the final seven interviews from ATIA 2011. Scroll down the page to see all 25 interviews.

Cheryl from Jacksonville Florida Tells About Her Guide Horse

Best Buddies: email Pen Pals and social Networking for Persons with Special Needs

Bones Milestone 312 Player and Color ID and Bar Code Reader Accessories

Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology

Hims U.S. Office, New Products and Newly Launched Website

Intel Reader $899 Through end of March 2011, $799 When Purchasing Two Or More

Tobii ATI Educational Software and Hardware

We hope you have found these interviews informative and useful.

The SeroTalk Team

 

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