Accessible World

BookSense enriches your life by giving you access to books, music and
information to educate, inform and entertain you. Two models are offered
– BookSense and BookSense XT. Both models play DAISY content, Audio
Files and Digital Books such as National Library Service (NLS). They
include a Secure Digital (SD) Memory card slot and built-in recorder.
Wherever you go, enjoy listening to your favorite books and music.

Features of the BookSense which will be demonstrated follow.

DATE AND TIME
Press the button on the front and hear the day of the week, date

Accessible World Tek Talk is very pleased to present Judy Dixon, Consumer Relations Officer, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically handicapped.

Judy Dixon will demonstrate and discuss the new NLS Digital Talking Book player that will be arriving in libraries later this summer.

Judy will also speak to us about accessing and using Web Braille as well as the NLS Downloadable services. If time permits, she will discuss any future programs contemplated by NLS.

Contact information for Judith M. Dixon: Consumer Relations officer,

Accessible World's Tek Talk is pleased to present Louis Herrera and the Eye-PAL, and Eye-PAL SOLO. The EYE-PAL is a stand-alone, computer driven scanner. It is a one-pound portable USB device. The foldable stand, designed specifically for the blind, holds a digital camera over the printed material to be scanned. The camera is always at the exact distance needed to create a clear image. There is no need to adjust the camera. Louis will describe how Eye-Pal's patented motion detector can scan 20 pages per minute.

Accessible World's Tek Talk Training for Monday June first, 2009 is all about Twitter. With the ever-growing popularity of social networking, Accessible World is delighted to have Rich Cavallaro a student from Hofstra University, as our guest on Tek Talk. He will guide us through the many features of this ever-growing social networking site. Rich will discuss how to set up an account, how to follow people, how to send the different types of messages, ways to tweet and more.

Accessible World's Tek Talk Training for Monday May 18th 2009 introduces the latest easy to use financial software. Accomplish CashManager Financial Software is designed by accountants for small to medium size businesses.

CashManager Home is the new simplified version that is ideal for managing your home accounts.
During Tek Talks presentation you will learn how to do the following:
" Entering Transactions
" Creating and Editing Budgets
" Reconciling to your bank statement
" Creating reports
" Creating new companies

Accessible World's Tek Talk is pleased to present George Abbott and Amy Salmon from
the Hadley School for the Blind. George is currently Vice President of Development
and Communications for the Hadley School. Amy Salmon's is an instructor at Hadley;
her current classes include several technology-based courses. George and Amy will
provide a brief overview of the Hadley school and its mission. Also they will describe
how Hadley and its students are currently using assistive technology, Such as with
email assignments, online courses, online office hours, etc.

Rick Harmon will be showing us the as yet to be released Windows 7 operating system from Microsoft that currently is in Beta and expected to be released by the company next month as a release candidate for general public testing.

A tour of Windows 7 will show how similar to Vista it is yet how different. Rick will discuss the reasons why one might want to try this exciting new operating system out even though it's not officially released yet. He shows how Windows 7 is almost 100 percent compatible already with Jaws and other screen readers on the market.

Did you know that 10% of the population have a learning disability? Come and find
out more information about this "hidden" disability.
A focused presentation on learning disabilities around understanding the benefits
of the ClassMate Reader that has been created by HumanWare. The presenter will be
Brenda McBride, Product Manager for the ClassMate Reader. We will also take a look
at on line resources and valuable information about accessing content.
Topics discussed will include:
* What is a learning disability?
* A few simulation activities

An Overview of an Accessible Leopard by Jim Denham
The latest version of the Macintosh operating system, OS X 10.5, includes some incredible
accessibility features.
For users who are blind, the built-in VoiceOver screen review software offers a whole
new way to use the Mac.
This powerful tool offers features such as refreshable Braille support, an extensive
help system and reliable access to many popular Macintosh applications.
For the past several years, all Macintosh computers have shipped with an Intel based
processor.

Pete has been working at Adobe as a Quality Engineer for almost 5 years dealing with
Accessibility of PDF documents and the use of
Adobe Acrobat and Reader. In this tech talk, he’ll explain exactly what PDF means, then will take you through the process of downloading and installing
Adobe Reader, the free software Adobe provides for reading PDF documents.
When you start Adobe Reader for the first time after installation, Adobe Reader will discover if you have a screen reader like JAWS or