Accessible World

We are please to welcome Rob Hancik who will demonstrate and discuss Express Rip.
This software allows one to rip cds in only five minutes.
We will have other surprises for you as well.
Presenter: Rob Hancik
E-Mail: rhancik@verizon.net

Accessible World Tek Talk presents Rick Harmon discussing Podcasting June 7, 2010

On May 24 2010, Dusty Voorhees,Senior Product Manager for Freedom Scientific will
speak to our Tech Talk Audience about two new products being released by this innovative
technology company.
Dusty will present and demonstrate the OpenBook 9 features along with their new product,
the PEARL camera.
OpenBook™ 9 and PEARL™ Portable Reading Solution – Now you can have lightning fast
OCR with all the features of OpenBook in a portable solution that folds up and fits
in your backpack. Connect via a USB port and quickly scan documents and books. Have

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
words and definitions from the Merriam Webster dictionary. It also contains a full

Prodigy Diabetes Care synopsis
The mission of Prodigy Diabetes Care is to bring the very best and most high tech products to market for blind and low-vision diabetics, giving them complete accessibility and total independence.

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

First part of the program will be a practical use of the program. This segment will
cover the following: where to obtain Express Burn, and how to use the program. I
will tell about different key strokes to do such things as name a disc, choose what
kind of disc one wishes to burn, and how to navigate folders when choosing what content
to burn to disc. Another feature of the program that will be covered is the difference
in burning audio and data CDs. I will be available to answer any questions people
might have.
Presenter: Joshua Hendrickson
Email: louvins@gmail.com

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
and when you might use each. She'll also discuss privacy issues, the three different

BCScan is a free service that allows you to organize, catalog, learn about, and manage Your groceries, CDs, movies, household products, medications, or just about anything Else. It works using a bar code scanner and a database of millions of products. When a bar code on an item is scanned, BCScan will check a database for the product and tell you what it is. You can add products to your personal inventory, add notes or contribute additional information. It's great for the visually impaired person who needs to identify a canned good or for anyone who wants to better organize their life.

Tek Talk offers an early look at Blio, the new touchstone in accessible e-book reading for everyone, Monday, April 5, 2010. This will provide an opportunity to learn more about the exploding world of e-books and the especially exciting e-book reader called Blio just being released by K-NFB Reading Technology.