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20240815 Financial Sense – Bouncing Back to Budgeting Originally Broadcasted August 15, 2024, on ACB Media 5   This month Penny Forward went back to school and back to budgeting. To help us get back on the budget wagon we talked about how to bounce back from setbacks.   Sponsored by: Penny Forward

20240815 I Love Braille Originally Broadcasted August 15, 2024, on ACB Media 5   This week, one participant shared his or her experience with learning and using braille.   Sponsored by: East Bay Center for the Blind Access Archives Email Vileen Shah

20240814 Recipe Swap–Its Summer Dessert Time! Originally Broadcasted August 14, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Our next recipe swap featured summer fruit desserts, so participants brought their peachy keen ideas and your berry delicious desserts to our call. If you don’t have any recipes feel free to come and just say hi.

20240814 Smart Glasses – What can they do for you Originally Broadcasted August 14, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Whether you’re amongst the haves, or the Have-Nots, participants joined in for sharing time around the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses.

20240813 Hints on Using Homophones Originally Broadcasted August 13, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Participants joined Mary Haupt to learn about homophones — words that sound alike but have different meanings and spellings. Examples: "B O A R D" and "B O R E D" or "H E A R D" and "H E R D."

20240813 Games to Play with Lady A Originally Broadcasted August 13, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Lucy loves to play games, so participants found out about new games to play with their Lady A devices.

20240813 Unmute Presents Originally Broadcasted August 13, 2024, on ACB Media 5   The Unmute Presents team was ready to resolve your tech queries or guide you to find answers yourself, across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.   Sponsored by: Unmute Presents Access Unmute Presents Podcasts

Originally aired in Zoom, ACB media 5 and Clubhouse on August 12, 2024, Tyson Takes the class on an overview of the File explorer. He covers changing the opening view location, how to navigate the tree view and item view panes, creating folders and moving them. He also gives out his personal tip on creating Office files from within a folder for expediency and never needing to go through the backst...

20240812 Bookability Originally Broadcasted August 12, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Are you interested in learning more about Libby and how to get access to more audio and eBooks through your local library? Participants joined us as Shannon Dyer and Meka white take you through the beginning setup and layout of the Libby app. Please also join the announce-only Bookability list by sending a blank email to...

20240812 Sports Roundtable Originally Broadcasted August 12, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Participants joined the Sports Spelunkers as they highlighted the wonderful, wide, and wacky world of (primarily) US team sports.

20240810 Basics With BITS Originally Broadcasted August 10, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Participants joined BITS, as we get down to basics, and provide a gentle helping hand to assist you in becoming more confident when using your technology. The most common question asked on the ACB community is “is this program recorded?.” We answered this question fully and showed participants how to access the ACB...

20240810 Doing Braille Digitally Originally Broadcasted August 10, 2024, on ACB Media 5   all about digital braille and braille displays. By request from participants to the call, we were pleased to bring participants a presentation this week by Austin Nix, a teacher of the visually impaired, here to talk about learning braille for students in this day and age and how this differs from the past. E...

20240810 Handy Around the House Originally Broadcasted August 10, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Need a few tips on installing a smoke detector, fixing an electrical outlet, dealing with that pesky squeaky door or other things around the house? This call’s for you. Participants joined me and other handy folks from around the ACB Community as we shared tips and tricks for tackling those DIY projects. Being...

20240809 Its Play Time Originally Broadcasted August 9, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Meka and Cindy welcomed participants to join in for another fun Friday night filled with games and laughter.

20240809 Community Couch-Audio description Originally Broadcasted August 9, 2024, on ACB Media 6   This time, we talked about all things’ audio description. Please come share tips on accessing audio description on different devices, your favorite streaming service for watching shows or movies with audio description and what your hopes are for the future of audio description.

20240809 A Blind View–Fear Originally Broadcasted August 9, 2024, on ACB Media 5   What does fear look like to you? This week, participants joined Bel for a discussion of fear and blindness.

20240809 In Perspective Originally Broadcasted August 9, 2024, on ACB Media 5   This episode featured Sara Freeman Smith, author of “Turning Stones into Gems,” a book about setting and achieving personal goals.   Sponsored by: Branco Events

20240809 Learning Blind Tech with Desiree Renee Originally Broadcasted August 9, 2024, on ACB Media 5   We recapped a little using the zoom essential recorder, taking recorded files from the device, and importing them for editing. We also touched a bit on AppleVis, would love to hear some experiences and favorite content from the site that may be going away at the end of August. Email me at: desir...

20240808 Vispero–Manage Messages in Gmail with JAWS Originally Broadcasted August 8, 2024, on ACB Media 5   We showed attendees how to move messages from your inbox to another label, archive messages to All Mail, and delete or recover Gmail messages using JAWS.   Sponsored by: Vispero

20240808 NVDA Basics–Mozilla Firefox Originally Broadcasted August 8, 2024, on ACB Media 5   This week, we discussed Mozilla Firefox. For details for this week’s class: Click here

20240808 I Love Braille Originally Broadcasted August 8, 2024, on ACB Media 5   This week, we had an interactive discussion on braille from questions participants will be asked.   Sponsored by: East Bay Center for the Blind Access Archives Email Vileen Shah

Office Space Explore your Windows computer with Tyson Ernst, Access Technology educator for the Washington Dept of services for the blind, and learn the ins and outs of your PC. Topics covered will include: the Windows desktop environment, File explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, and Power Point from a screen reader perspective. Each session will build upon the previous one working towards competent a...

Office Space Explore your Windows computer with Tyson Ernst, Access Technology educator for the Washington Dept of services for the blind, and learn the ins and outs of your PC. Topics covered will include: the Windows desktop environment, File explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, and Power Point from a screen reader perspective. Each session will build upon the previous one working towards competent a...

20240807 Its Electric Originally Broadcasted August 7, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Participants talked about the small kitchen appliances they love so much: from blenders to Instant Pots and everything in between! Attendees brought their questions, tips, resources, recipes and accessible appliance recommendations!

20240806 Hints on Using Homophones Originally Broadcasted August 6, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Participants joined Mary Haupt for the final round of this game of "Homophone Bee." At the end of the hour, prizes were awarded to those with the highest cumulative scores.