Listen and Learn Recordings

This is an interesting and informative tutorial that will guide listeners through Downloading, installing, configuring and using the new AIM instant messenger so that you can talk to friends on Facebook using the face book chat facility through this instant messenger program with Jaws.

This approaches the installation, configuration and usage of Aim from the beginners perspective as Darragh has never actually used Aim before therefore has to fumble around to figure out how to get it all working. This should give you an idea as to how easy it is to get set up and how easy it is to get a grasp of how the program works.

One major problem was encountered during this tutorial. While attempting to sign up for an AIM account, the audio captcha was not accepted. This seemed to rectify it's self after a while however this issue was left in the recording to give a realistic idea as to what challanges may be encountered.

Feedback on this recording would be appreciated even more than usual as t would be very interesting to hear of succcesses and issues that others have had while following this or similar instructions.

For this, the first LAL Live, we're joined by Sean Randle, Stuart Lawler, steven Clower, and HKC Radio's

Topics we discussed included:

li>Accessible mobile phones:
• What makes the Nokia fifth generation S60 phones so great
• What is great and not so great about the iPhone from an accessibility point of view
• Thought's on Mobile speak verses Talks.
• audio book readers such as the Victor stream.
• Why are they so saut after?
• Will one leader emerge in this industry as a result of the flood of so much choice recently?
• With the availability of Audible and so many Ebooks, what's the point in having these specialist alternatives?
• We discuss GPS, the demise of Way finder access and the usefulness of Loadstone.
• Is it really that bad that WayFinder is gone? Was it really that good to begin with?
• Systems built on Sendero. How systems specifically designed to give specific information may be preferable to generic devices with bolt on assistive software in situations where we need very different information compared to sighted people who use GPS products.

A number of other topics were discussed at length with a lot of very interesting ideas and perspectives.

For next weeks show, we want more participation from listeners. If you have a question, then we really want to hear about it. If you have an opinion about what we're talking, why not discuss that with us too.

This second introduction and review is feature packed. We look at using the phone with only one hand without depending on the touch screen. This is vital for users who need to keep one hand free for navigating with a cane or guide dog but who need to use the phone while on the move. We also look at the prodictive text facility when sending messages. We create to do items and demonstrate how the versatility and functionality of the extra three virtual soft keys have been introduced on these new touch screen phones. The iPhone is used to draw a number of comparasons to demonstrate that the way that Talks does things makes the phone even more accessible compared to the methods used by voice over on the iPhone.

In this recording, I take a very brief look at using the Nokia N97 with the newly released talks screen reader.

I demonstrate accessing menus with the built in keyboard, navigating around messages using the touch screen and the talks commands that are also available through the screen.

This is a brief introduction and more recordings on this topic will be available shortly.