Rick Harmon will discuss the topic of Podcasts on Monday, June 7th 2010 on Accessible World's tek talk. He will tell us what a podcast is, where to get them and how to play them on your computer or portable device. He will talk about a couple of different pod catchers usable by blind persons, including Accessible podcatcher, Juice and iTunes. He will show us several places where we can find podcasts to download. Rick will also briefly talk about what is necessary to create a podcast as well. After the demonstration, Rick will take questions from the virtual audience.

Tek Talk’s presentation will include two products by www.franklin.com. Yukline Gatewood,
Educational Sales Coordinator will demonstrate the Franklin Bill Reader. This new
product identifies all US currency in circulation. It is approximately the size
of a cell phone; batteries and lanyard are included. If any of the currency has changed,
Updates will be available on the website for download
The second product is the Speaking Language Master Special Edition. This device reads

Steven Hoffmann, president and co-founder of Talking Communities Web Conferencing
Services, will be a guest on Tek Talk on Tuesday, May 3, 2010. Hoffmann will be discussing
the accessibility side of web-conferencing, collaboration, and community tools. “Accessibility
has generally always been an after-thought for software development companies”, suggests
Hoffmann. Most companies do not start out with the intention of making their products
equally accessible to blind, low-vision, and hearing impaired users, but often need

It's hard to avoid terms like tweet, post, and poke, these days. If you know these
words have new meanings, but you're not sure what those meanings are, or you'd like
to learn more about social networking websites, Anna Dresner will try to help. She
recently wrote a book for National Braille Press called Social Networking & You,
which is an introduction to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Anna will talk about
the book, and in the process will discuss the differences between these three sites