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This week on MainMenu we bring you features that include: MainMenu staff member Rich Cavallaro brings us an interview and demonstrationof the RockBox firmware upgrade usable on many MP3 players to make use of those devices possible Then David Woodbridge from Vision Australia discusses the changes in the on screen keyboard for VoiceOver in iOS6. It's all on MainMenu this week just for you!!!

This week has been a very exciting week of new technology announcements and new releases in the technology and assistive technology field. And MainMenu is on top of the stories. MainMenu host David Tanner interviews Michael Curran and they discuss the upcoming release of NVDA version 2012 Release 3 and support for Windows 8 both with keyboard access and touch screen access. David then gives us a b...

This week on MainMenu MainMenu staff member Mary Emerson introduces us to Flexable Web, a new feature in Jaws for Windows version 14. MainMenu Executive Producer Chase Crispin introduces us to the Braille Plus 18 notetaker from American Printinghouse for the Blind. MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge demonstrates using the Twitter integration in Mountain Lion.

This week on MainMenu Mary Emerson introduces us to the Braille Sense U2 Qwerty from Hims, Inc. David Woodbridge demonstrates using the Notification panel in Mountain Lion. And, David Woodbridge also demonstrates using the VoiceOver Roter in iOS 6.

This week on MainMenu Mary Emerson introduces us to the first public beta of Jaws For Windows version 14. David Woodbridge tells about changes in the accessibility options in iOS 6, and using VoiceOver and Zoom large print together with iOS 6. Finally, David Woodbridge walks us through moving a daisy book from a Mac to the Read2Go app on your "i" device.

MainMenu celebrates the 10th anniversary of Bookshare with an interview with Jimm Fruchterman and other members of the Bookshare staff. We talk about the first 10 years, and catch up on the latest happenings from Bookshare. There is a lot of new things to know, including over 200,000 Bookshare users. Mary Emerson follows up with an introduction to the APH Book Port Desktop. It's all on MainMenu th...

MainMenu goes Apple this week!!! With the release of the iPhone 5 and the iOS6 operating system for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. We checkout the accessibility of these new Apple products. Executive producer Chase Crispin interviews David Woodbridge from Vision Australia about the new iPhone 5, new iPod Touch and the new iPod Nano. Then David comes back with a demo of the new iOS6 and shows off th...

This week's show features a great group of informative segments you won't want to miss. Paul Warner brings us OBI 2.0 part III. DAISY book creation software. David Woodbridge from Vision Australia tells us about the Changes to accessing Spotlight with Voice Over in Mountain Lion. Macy McClain reviews the NFB Newsline iOS app and demos its' features. David Woodbridge from Vision Australia tells us...

This week's show features a great group of informative segments you won't want to miss. Paul Warner brings us the second part of his review of OBI 2.0 a free daisy book production software. Shane Davidson brings us the final part of his interview and demo of the Swamp Audio Game. Jamey Pauls from The SeroTalk Podcast Network interviews a representative from Envision America at the ACB 2012 Convent...

This week, we begin by airing the first part of a podcast from Paul Warner of VICT Consultancy about the accessible OBI 2.0 software for creating DAISY books. Then, Jamie Pauls from the SeroTalk Podcast Network at the 2012 ACB convention interviews a representative from National Braille Press about some of their new books and products. Next, David Woodbridge from Vision Australia demonstrates acce...

David Woodbridge from Vision Australia introduces us to the Accessibility Panel in Mountain Lion. Jamey Pauls from the SeroTalk Podcast Network at the 2012 ACB Convention interviews a representative from IRIE AT, and they discuss a number of the items that they are selling. Shane Davidson brings us the third part of his interview and demo of the Swamp Audio Game. Jamey Pauls from the SeroTalk Podc...

David Woodbridge from Vision Australia introduces us to a new release of Fleksy a way of inputting information into your iOS device and shows us many of its' new features. Stuart Lawler from the National Council for the Blind of ireland introduces the screen reader for Blackberry cell phones and demos some of its' features. Jamey Pauls from the SeroTalk Podcast Network at the 2012 ACB Convention i...

David Woodbridge from Vision Australia introduces us to Fleksy, a new way of inputting information into your iOS device Shane Davidson introduces us to the Swamp Audio Game. And Jamey Pauls from the SeroTalk Podcast Network brings us an interview with a representative from Humanware at the 2012 ACB Convention. Main Menu can first be heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Satu...

No it isn't the Olympics, but this week MainMenu goes around the world to bring you the latest information on accessible technologies for the blind and visually impaired. We start with a tech update from Executive Producer Chase Crispin. Then, Host David Tanner interviews staff from Accomplish, developers of the Cash Manager accessible bookkeeping software from their headquarters in New Zealand. D...

Just hours ago, Apple released their new operating system, Mac OS10.8, known as Mountain Lion. Main Menu is pleased to be one of the first to cover this brand new operating system. On this week's Main Menu, Chase Crispin speaks with David Woodbridge about many new and exciting features in Mountain Lion. David then demonstrates some of the new changes in accessibility that you will find when you up...

Executive Producer Chase Crispin starts off this week's show with a tech update. David Tanner interviews Stephen Baum from Kurzweil Educational Systems and we find out about all the new features in the recently released version 13 of the Kurzweil1000 accessible OCR scanning software. It's all on MainMenu this week on ACBRadio Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern t...

Executive Producer Chase Crispin starts off this week's show with a tech update. David Tanner interviews Dan Wirich from GW Micro about their support for the software and hardware that allows students to actively participate in scientific experiments at school, college and in the professional world. Chase returns with a demonstration of the new Podcasts app from Apple. And, Chase finally introduce...

This week's show starts with David Woodbridge from Vision Australia giving us an overview of Voice Over navigation Options on the Mac. Then MainMenu staff member Mary Emerson brings us a review and demonstration of the Cloudmark DesktopOne Spam blocker It's all on MainMenu this week on ACB Radio Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturda...

This week's show starts with Executive Producer Chase Crispin presenting his weekly technology Update. Bill McCann from Dancing Dots introduces us to products from Dancing Dots and demonstrates their software package that allows a blind musician the ability to read and compose music on their Windows based computer with all the features and flexability of some of the best music composing software o...

This week's show starts with Executive Producer Chase Crispin presenting his weekly technology Update. MainMenu host David Tanner interviews Michael curne from NVAccess about their latest release of the NVDA screen reader. And, MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge from Vision Australia shows us the Type2Phone app for the Mac that lets you use the Mac keyboard to type on your iPhone or iPad. It's...

On this week's Main Menu after Chase Crispin's weekly Tech Update, Chase visits with Jamie Pauls, content director for Serotek and host of the SeroTalk podcast and Joe Steinkamp, operations director at Serotek and executive producer of the SeroTalk podcast network about all of the podcasts available from SPN. Coverage of the summer national conventions is also discussed. Finally, David Woodbridge...

This week's show starts with Executive Producer Chase Crispin interviewing Jenny Axler from Hims, Inc. about the Braille Sense U2 notetaker and the new Braille Edge Braille display and basic notetaker. MainMenu staff member Mary Emerson continues our exclusive coverage of new products from Hims, Inc. with a demonstration of the Braille Edge Braille display and basic notetaker. It's all on MainMenu...

This week's show starts with a Tech Update with MainMenu Executive Producer Chase Crispin. Rick Harmon introduces us to the Four Square app for IOS devices and takes us on a tour of the app and the website. Dan Eikmmeier reviews the Aether Ham Radio Loging Application. And, David Woodbridge from Vision Australia demonstrates sharing notes between the iPhone and the Mac using the Single Text applic...

This week's show starts with David Woodbridge presenting a MainMenu exclusive presentation of navagating the Easy Chirp Website to access Twitter. Our second feature of the week comes to us courtesy of Vision Australia and David Woodbridge presenting using the Mac application "Night Owl" to access a Twitter account. It's all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first he...

This week's show starts with a Tech Update with Chase Crispin. We hear a review of how to setup and use the personal hotspot on your iPhone curtesy of Vision Australia and David Woodbridge. Rich Cavalaro reviews the Bose Sound Link Portable Speaker System, and Rick Harmon follows with a review and demo of the Bose Sound Doc 10 for beautiful music from your iPhone or other "i" device. Its' all on M...