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Jonathan Mosen speaks with Ryan Jones. When he's not working with Freedom Scientific's Training Department, Ryan has a fascinating hobby. Last year, he put together a synchronised Christmas light show, thanks to hardware and software he operated with the help of JAWS®. Ryan tells us all about it. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 120 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Ryan Jones

Jonathan Mosen speaks with Jim Ellsworth, a familiar voice to many who have called our Technical Support over the years, who has retired after almost 19 years with the company. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 119 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Jim Ellsworth

One of the stars of this season's NBC show "The Voice" is a JAWS® user. Jonathan Mosen speaks with Blind Joe about how he made it so far on the show, and where he goes from here. Brian Hartgen of Hartgen Consultancy tells us all that's new with Leasey version 3, complete with an audio demonstration of a new game. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 118 - Blind Joe from "The Voice"; Brian Hartgen dis...

Jonathan Mosen speaks with Freedom Scientific CEO, John Blake, about the recently announced merger of FreedomScientific and Optelec. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 117 - Jonathan Mosen and John Blake discuss the merger of Freedom Scientific and Optelec

Jonathan Mosen speaks with George Calvert, a user of our JAWS® screen reading software who became blind just over three years ago. An experienced professional Working in the field of information technology, he has relearned how to use a computer without sight. His free eBook, "Getting Back to Work with JAWS", is designed to help people who need to learn familiar computer skills in a new way. Our T...

As the JAWS® public beta process concludes, we've introduced some enhancements to the Smart Navigation™ feature. Jonathan Mosen demonstrates them. Dr. Craig Moore has worked for NASA since 1989, and currently works on the new space launch system rocket project. He talks with Jonathan about his work. And Ashleigh Piccinino brings us a JAWS Byte on changing the forms mode sound in JAWS. Show Host: J...

With the first public beta imminent, Eric Damery joins us to discuss more new features in our JAWS® 17 screen reading software, and how to best participate in the beta process. Dusty Voorhees then joins us to talk about an update to our MAGic® 13 screen magnification software, which is Windows 10-compatible and sporting some great new features. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 114 - JAWS 17 new f...

Eric Damery and Jonathan Mosen bring you the first of two podcasts on new features in version 17 of our JAWS® screen reading software. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 113 - JAWS 17 new features: Part 1

Jonathan Mosen speaks with Matt Ater about the collaboration between Freedom Scientific and IBM to provide enterprise accessibility training. And we meet Maribel Steel from Melbourne, Australia, who uses JAWS® in her work as a writer, blogger, and mentor. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 112 - Freedom Scientific and IBM make the world a more accessible place. Jonathan speaks with Maribel Steel

Jonathan recaps all the news from Freedom Scientific participation at the summer conventions held in Orlando and Dallas. News includes John Blake's announcement regarding partnership between Wells Fargo and Freedom Scientific to deploy JAWS® in over 6000 retail locations nationwide later this Fall. Also, the overwhelming success and reception of Home Use Program for conferences attendees and an up...

As thousands of people head to Orlando and Dallas for the NFB and ACB national conventions, Eric Damery joins us to preview Freedom Scientific's convention offerings. He unveils a substantial discount on hardware, available at both conventions. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 110 - 2015 Convention Specials

If you're attending the conventions of the National Federation of the Blind or American Council of the Blind, we summarise a series of great specials available in the exhibit halls. Hartgen Consultancy will soon be launching global specials on their Leasey and JDictate products. We give you the details. Jonathan Mosen speaks with Glen Gordon, Freedom Scientific's Chief Technology Officer, about Mi...

As we prepare for the blindness convention season in the US, we unveil some very special pricing we'll be offering at the NFB Convention to celebrate its 75th birthday. Jonathan Mosen speaks with Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, about his recent visit to Freedom Scientific's headquarters and a range of other topics. And we hear from Robin Drodge, a Canadian JAWS®...

After listener comments, Jonathan Mosen demonstrates the new keyboard support available for Facebook with version 16 of our JAWS® screen reading software. Brian Hartgen of Hartgen Consultancy discusses and demonstrates their new product, J-Dictate, a cost-effective way to dictate to your computer. We then learn what's new in the latest version of their Leasey software, including an accessible inte...

After the latest news from Freedom Scientific and some listener comments, we bring you the audio of our JAWS® for Windows 20th anniversary video that was a huge hit at the recent CSUN conference. Jonathan Mosen then speaks with Joe Stephen, a talented software developer from Australia whose mastery of the JAWS scripting language led him to becoming a valued member of the JAWS development team. Sho...

We bring you part two of Jonathan Mosen's interview with Ted Henter, who founded Henter-Joyce and created the JAWS® screen reading software. Ted talks about the challenges of developing a screen reader for Windows, the phenomenal success of JAWS for Windows and many of the people who made that success possible. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 105 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Ted Henter, who foun...

Jonathan Mosen speaks with Ted Henter, who founded Henter-Joyce and created the JAWS® screen reading software. In part one of this two-part interview, Ted talks about his early life, the accident that left him blind, his interest in computing, founding Henter-Joyce and the early days of JAWS for DOS Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 104 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Ted Henter, who founded Henter-J...

If you're coming to CSUN, don't miss the summary of all our sessions, exhibits, giveaways and the celebration of JAWS® for Windows 20th anniversary. After some comments from our listener line, Jonathan Mosen speaks with Nas Campanella. Nas reads news on the nationwide radio network, Triple J, in Australia. She's a user of our JAWS screen reading software, and has perfected a fascinating technique...

With submissions due by the end of this month, we remind you about how to participate in our JAWS® for Windows 20th anniversary video. We look ahead to Freedom Scientific-related events at the ATIA and CSUN conferences. Bryan Carver talks to us about how to make the most of Freedom Scientific Technical Support, answering a range of frequently asked questions. And Kelly Ford tells us about the Micr...

Learn about how you can celebrate the 20th anniversary of our JAWS® for Windows screen reading software by contributing to our celebratory video. Jonathan Mosen demonstrates the powerful new Braille selection feature in the first JAWS 16 update. Raymond Jansen tells us about his work with Freedom Scientific and his experience with Windows tablets running JAWS 16 And Tom Spittle brings us a JAWS By...

In this our 100th episode, host Jonathan Mosen offers a few reflections on FSCast over the years. After some listener comments, Brian Hartgen joins us to talk about Leasey, a new product based predominantly on the JAWS scripting language offering many convenient features for both novice and expert users. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 100 - Reflections on FSCast, Listener Feedback, Brian Hartge...

In this episode, we catch up with a selection of listener feedback from our comment line. You can leave us a comment by calling (727) 803-8000, extension 1010. We explain and demonstrate the new Math ML features in version 16 of our JAWS® screen reading software, and tell you about a forthcoming webinar where you can learn more. And in our JAWS Bytes segment, Shaun Williams gives us a demonstratio...

Eric Damery joins Jonathan Mosen to introduce the new JAWS® timed license. We also discuss some of the new tablet computers on which people are now running our JAWS screen reading software. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 98 - JAWS Timed License, Tablet Computing

Jonathan Mosen and Eric Damery discuss more new features in our JAWS® 16 screen reading software, about to be released for public beta. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 97 - More New Features in JAWS 16

We continue our look at what's new in our JAWS® 16 screen reading software. This episode unveils an enhancement to our convenient OCR feature. Read image-based PDF files that were previously inaccessible. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 96 - JAWS 16 Reads Inaccessible PDF