Accessibility: Links to info on PDF, eBooks, games, Linux, more
Kes: Note that there is an additional free accessible game listed after the Top Tech tidbits listings--going back to school means you need more things to distract you from doing homework, right?
From Top Tech Tidbits
http://topdotenterprises.com/lists/ .
1) Stephen Baum from Kurzweil will present A Technical View of Optical Character Recognition as the Tek Talk presentation for GMT Tuesday, 11 September starting at 00:00.
http://www.accessibleworld.org.
2) Here is a Fred's Head Companion post to help you decide if joining
an audio book club is a good idea for you.
http://fredsheadcompanion.blogspot.com/2007/09/audio-book-clubs-are-they-right-choice.html
3) Fred's Head also tells us that Bob Rankin, co-author of the informative and venerable Internet Tourbus newsletter,
http://www.TOURBUS.com
wrote a plain-language book called the No Bs Guide to Linux. the book is out of print, so he has put it on the web, calling it Low Fat Linux, for free use.
http://www.LowFatLinux.com
4) the Gw Micro blog has recently discussed a way to read protected
pdf documents which you can use if you have Microsoft Office 2003 or
later,
and also reviewed the free Contact Keeper program which is an
accessible replacement for the Microsoft Outlook Contact Manager if
you don't.
http://www.gwmicro.com/blog/
5) Here are two mailing lists, jaws-users-list and blind-computing.
to join jaws-users-list, send a blank message to
jaws-users-list-subscribe@jaws-users.com
and for blind-computing,
send a blank message to
blind-computing-subscribe@jaws-users.com
6) EdSharp, Jamal Mazrui's free text editor and word processor,
continues to add new features at version 2.1. It now lets you
download web pages, edit html documents, write subscript and
superscript as well as bold, underline and italics, set and change
font, look up words in online dictionaries, process and store regular
expressions, and much more.
http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
7) EASI is holding a free online webinar, Accessible E-Books in
Higher Ed, on Thursday, 27 September at 18:00 GMT. Pre-registration is required.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
they also offer a four-part fee-based series; Accessible Vodcasts, Making Captions for a Personal Portable Player starting on 18 September.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
8) The Tarzan Junior game is now freeware, and works on windows
Vista.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/97vnap
From Spoonbill Software's Blind Gamers series:
We are pleased to announce the release of BG Uno, the accessible version of the popular card game, Uno. This is the thirteenth game in the blind gamers
series. You may read a full description of the game on Spoonbill Software's Blind gamers page at:
http://www.omninet.net.au/~irhumph/blindgamers.htm
If you would like a copy of this game, email me with your full name and country of residence and I will gladly send you one. This email is being distributed
to approximately 1000 clients so please allow up to one week for delivery from the date of ordering.
Ian Humphreys
Spoonbill Software
Albany, Western Australia
From Top Tech Tidbits
http://topdotenterprises.com/lists/ .
1) Stephen Baum from Kurzweil will present A Technical View of Optical Character Recognition as the Tek Talk presentation for GMT Tuesday, 11 September starting at 00:00.
http://www.accessibleworld.org.
2) Here is a Fred's Head Companion post to help you decide if joining
an audio book club is a good idea for you.
http://fredsheadcompanion.blogspot.com/2007/09/audio-book-clubs-are-they-right-choice.html
3) Fred's Head also tells us that Bob Rankin, co-author of the informative and venerable Internet Tourbus newsletter,
http://www.TOURBUS.com
wrote a plain-language book called the No Bs Guide to Linux. the book is out of print, so he has put it on the web, calling it Low Fat Linux, for free use.
http://www.LowFatLinux.com
4) the Gw Micro blog has recently discussed a way to read protected
pdf documents which you can use if you have Microsoft Office 2003 or
later,
and also reviewed the free Contact Keeper program which is an
accessible replacement for the Microsoft Outlook Contact Manager if
you don't.
http://www.gwmicro.com/blog/
5) Here are two mailing lists, jaws-users-list and blind-computing.
to join jaws-users-list, send a blank message to
jaws-users-list-subscribe@jaws-users.com
and for blind-computing,
send a blank message to
blind-computing-subscribe@jaws-users.com
6) EdSharp, Jamal Mazrui's free text editor and word processor,
continues to add new features at version 2.1. It now lets you
download web pages, edit html documents, write subscript and
superscript as well as bold, underline and italics, set and change
font, look up words in online dictionaries, process and store regular
expressions, and much more.
http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
7) EASI is holding a free online webinar, Accessible E-Books in
Higher Ed, on Thursday, 27 September at 18:00 GMT. Pre-registration is required.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
they also offer a four-part fee-based series; Accessible Vodcasts, Making Captions for a Personal Portable Player starting on 18 September.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
8) The Tarzan Junior game is now freeware, and works on windows
Vista.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/97vnap
From Spoonbill Software's Blind Gamers series:
We are pleased to announce the release of BG Uno, the accessible version of the popular card game, Uno. This is the thirteenth game in the blind gamers
series. You may read a full description of the game on Spoonbill Software's Blind gamers page at:
http://www.omninet.net.au/~irhumph/blindgamers.htm
If you would like a copy of this game, email me with your full name and country of residence and I will gladly send you one. This email is being distributed
to approximately 1000 clients so please allow up to one week for delivery from the date of ordering.
Ian Humphreys
Spoonbill Software
Albany, Western Australia