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Friday, April 13, 2012

ViewPointPlus.net

This half-hour weekly show discusses products, services and daily living tips for people with vision loss. It is available in Rochester, NY to listeners of WXXI Reachout Radio, the local radio reading service, through other radio reading services across the US and Canada and to everybody else as a podcast at the link above. To date, the show has been downloaded in all 50 states in the US, 6 Canadian provinces and 45 other countries on all the inhabited continents. ViewPoints is hosted and produced by Peter Torpey and Nancy Goodman Torpey in partnership with WXXI Reachout Radio in Rochester, NY.
http://www.viewpointsplus.net

Thursday, April 5, 2012

From Top Tech Tidbits

1) Media Access Australia has provided a page both with general instructions about using Facebook and about overcoming its accessibility challenges.
http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/online-media/social-media/facebook

3) Among recently released iOS-related podcasts, we have White & Yellow Pages: Now Offers Free Turn-By-Turn Voice GPS Navigation
http://www.applevis.com/podcasts/episodes/white-yellow-pages-now-offers-free-turn-turn-voice-gps-navigation


4) EASI produced a webinar, Overview of the Accessibility of Mainstream E-Readers. You can watch the presentations and view the slides.
http://easi.cc/archive/e-readers/resources.htm

12) Led Zeppelin music sounnds quite different when the Dec-Talk synthesizer handles the vocals!
http://q-audio.net/i/1M8W