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ScripTalk Station: An Audible Prescription Reading Device To Be Demonstrated On Tek Talk by Anna McClure, Marketing Representative, Envision America, Inc. Hosted on Monday, May 12, 2008	Are you blind or visually impaired? Do you take prescription medications? Do you know someone else who does? Are you concerned about remembering your prescription instructions and information? Are you bothered that you have to rely on others to read your prescription information? Are you looking for a way to safely and independently manage your medications? If you answered YES to any of these questions, ScripTalk Station is for you! During the upcoming Tek Talk online event sponsored by the Accessible World, you	Download 05-12-08.mp3 11.36 MB Hosted on Monday, May 12, 2008
TekTalk Presents Jim Kitchen and His Accessible Games Hosted on Monday, May 05, 2008	Determining the importance of computer games in education has resulted in significant research throughout the world. While opinions of researchers vary, it is generally believed that computer games are the most frequently used interactive media for children and young adults and that computer games are already a phenomenon of greater cultural importance to all ages than movies, or perhaps even sports.. The gaming industry is believed by many to be the catalyst that is driving the propagation of new and	Download 05-05-08.mp3 22.28 MB Hosted on Monday, May 05, 2008
Dancing Dots: Providing Technology for Blind Musicians and Their Educators by Bill McCann, Founder and President of Dancing Dots Hosted on Monday, April 28, 2008	The next Accessible World Tek Talk online training event will explore the musical world with Bill McCann, Founder and President of Dancing Dots, a United States, based company with customers in more than 40 countries, that has been providing solutions to challenges faced by blind musicians worldwide since 1992. He will demonstrate the Goodfeel Braille Music Translator, any sighted musician with no knowledge of Braille can scan and edit print notation and convert it to the equivalent braille	Download 04-28-08.mp3 25.34 MB Hosted on Monday, April 28, 2008
Anyone For A Game of Chess? by Anna Dresner and Alan Dicey Hosted on Monday, April 21, 2008	Chess has been defined many ways but most will agree that it is not merely an idle amusement but essentially in its essence it is a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games	Download 04-21-08.mp3 22.36 MB Hosted on Monday, April 21, 2008
Tek Talk Presents An Unbelievably Comprehensive And Accessible Device Monday by Marco Gregnanin, C.E.O. ITEX Hosted on Monday, April 14, 2008	Did you know there is now a portable device that recognizes flat and solid objects through the eyes of a digital camera! Did you know there is a hand-held device that is a real computer with Windows XP and 60GB Hard Disk, slightly bigger than a palm, able to recognize objects in less than ten seconds? Did you know a device exists that can read books, magazines and newspapers of any size and complexity up to two complete pages at a time, text on boxes, bottles, cans, and medicines , as well as	Download 04-14-08.mp3 14.07 MB Hosted on Monday, April 14, 2008
Windows Vista's speech Recognition: Vista's Half-buried Treasure Hosted on Monday, April 07, 2008	Dean Martineau will discuss and demonstrate Windows Vista Speech Recognition, a powerful feature of this operating system that has received less promotion than it deserves. He will discuss who can best benefit from this feature, some thoughts on how this approach to speech recognition compares with Dragon Naturally Speaking, then provide a tutorial on its use, both with System Access as the screen reader and using the J-Vist package from T & T Consultancy.	Download 04-07-08.mp3 59.4 MB Hosted on Monday, April 07, 2008
Maestro And Trekker, The World In The Palm Of Your Hand by Sam Adler, Market Development Manager for HumanWare Hosted on Monday, March 31, 2008	This week's Tek Talk event will feature the version for Maestro and Trekker, a small yet powerful, fully accessible and easy to use handheld device with many solutions such as Calendar, Contacts, wireless Email, Web browser, Media Player, Daisy player, Voice notes, Text notes and a File Explorer. Trekker GPS features many popular and innovative application such as: Where am I information, GPS status, creation and search of Points of interest, Route creation, virtual Browsing offline, free mode navigation and many more.	Download 03-31-08.mp3 24.82 MB Hosted on Monday, March 31, 2008
A Backward Glance At CSUN 2008 by Larry Gassman and Friends Hosted on Monday, March 24, 2008	During the upcoming Accessible World Tek Talk online event Larry Gassman and other members of the Tek Talk planning committee will provide an overview of the products and services displayed during the 23rd annual CSUN technology conference held March 10-15th 2008 in Los Angeles. A project of the California State University Northridge Center on Disabilities, the conference is known as the longest-running and largest annual university sponsored conference on technology and persons with disabilities in the world.	Download 03-24-08.mp3 18.39 MB Hosted on Monday, March 24, 2008
Providing Instant Remote Access To Accessible Media Using eClipseWriter And eClipseReader And Writer by IRTI, Peter Proscia, President, CEO, and Tim Simonetti, Vice President of Engineering Hosted on Monday, March 10, 2008	During this Tek Talk online event, Innovative Rehabilitation Technology, Inc. (IRTI) of Grass Valley, California will provide two related presentations: eClipseWriter 4.0 Scanning to DAISY and how eClipseReader and writer work together to provide instant remote access to accessible media. Attendees will first learn how eClipseWriter Professional 4.0, now powered by Abby FineReader 8, integrates document scanning and DAISY book and Personal use. Then, eClipseWriter's new scanning, word processing and automated Save to DAISY features	Download 03-10-08.mp3 26.75 MB Hosted on Monday, March 10, 2008
Wired For Business! Strategies for incorporating Wireless Braille into your Technological Journey by Larry Lewis Hosted on Monday, March 03, 2008	Larry Lewis, President of Flying Blind LLC, will showcase the entire line of wireless Braille displays manufactured by Baum Retek, a European-based manufacturer with decades of experience developing products for persons who are vision impaired. The virtual audience will be taken on a tour of the hardware of these displays and will hear a demonstration of methods for efficiently using these displays to wirelessly access a PC as well as Mobilespeak-equipped PDAs and Smartphones.	Download 03-03-08.mp3 23.42 MB Hosted on Monday, March 03, 2008

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