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Top Tech Tidbits - Volume 201
The Week's News in Access Technology

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1) A number of recordings of presentations from the recent CSUN conference are available. Four can be found on the Gw Micro site: two classes on scripting, the Window-Eyes Presentand Future session, and the Dueling Scripting session where scripting capabilities of Window-Eyes, HAS and NVDA are compared.
http://www.gwmicro.com/Audio_Video_Archive/Presentations/
You can also download the examples used in the scripting training.
http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Downloads/?fileNo=1130

2) EASI made two presentations and promises recordings of others. Theirs concerned the Word to DAISY add-on, and making more accessible Word documents using the Styles feature.
http://easi.cc/csun/

3) Gw Micro has entered the realm of social networking in a big way. You can follow developments and thoughts of the company and its staff on Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/gwmicro
You can also join their group on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71299009663&ref=share

4) Version 2.0 of the Microsoft Save As DAISY plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 is now available. This add-on lets you create full-text or full-audio DAISY books from Word documents.
http://www.daisy.org/news/attachments/2009_03_18_Press_Release.html

5) Thanks to Fred's Head, we are informed about Open With, a site that tells you what programs are needed to open various kinds of files, and which suggests free alternatives to the usual commercial programs.
http://www.openwith.org/

6) I haven't tried this, but it claims to be a talking web portal that requires no screen reader. It might give some web access to people without screen readers.
http://www.spoken-web.com/

7) This Fred's Head post discusses three books about blindness, with additional information available online.
http://www.fredshead.info/2009/03/three-books-about-blindness-related.html

8) We also discover Hugh Haggerty’s educational software site, where many of the programs are designed for the blind and visually impaired.
http://www.hahaggerty.com/

9) This Fred's Head entry is called Animal Recordings Online
http://www.fredshead.info/2007/01/animal-recordings-online.html

10) Say-Magic is a new tool from T&T Consultancy which marries the MAGic screen enlargement program with Dragon Naturally Speaking. It will be the topic for Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday 31 March at 00:00
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

11) And finally for the week, this one is called How to Protect Yourself: Virus Information and FREE Virus Scanners
http://www.fredshead.info/2005/11/how-to-protect-yourself-virus.html

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