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The second look at the Nokia N97 Mini with Talks 5.
6 April 2010 - 6:49pm | by darraghThis 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.
The very first look at a touch screen phone with Talks 5.
26 March 2010 - 12:36am | by darraghIn 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.
Changing the sound of indevidual programs in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
19 March 2010 - 10:27pm | by darraghhen you use a screen reader with a software based synthesizer such as Elequents, it's frustrating at times to visit a website that blasts outloud music. It gets in the way of you hearing what your screen reader is trying to say.
This very basic guide will show you exactly how to use the volume mixer in Windows Vista and Windows 7 to change the volume of indevidual programs.
Mainly directed at beginners to these newer versions of Windows.
Demonstration of Mobile Speak on the Nokia E52
19 March 2010 - 9:48pm | by darraghIn this short demonstration, we take a look at some of the differences between Mobile speak and Talks
The Synthesizer used in this recording is Acapella This is surprisingly versatile even compared to the current favorite Elequents that is available for most platforms and screen readers.
Introducing RSS.
30 November 2009 - 11:11pm | by darraghThis short tutorial introduces RSS. It shows how it can be used to allow you to keep up to date with your favorite sites without having to visit them every time you want to check for new content.
This tutorial looks at RSS in Internet explorer, Outlook 2007, Firefox and SharpReader.
An introduction to SAToGo
14 October 2009 - 11:16pm | by darraghI wouldn't consider my self an expert when it comes to System access or indeed SAToGo but I was very impressed when yesterday, I came up against a problem with my primary screen reader and after remembering that SAToGo.com was available, I was able to not only get my primary screen reader back up and running, but I was comfortable enough and satisfied to spend the rest of the evening using SAToGo. Not to take away from the inovation that it is responsible for but I think what I was most impressed with was that although it was diferent, it was not too different as to impose too much of a learning curve.
SeroTek are the great people behind System Access and SAToGo. Go visit them and give SAToGo a try for your self. I promis you won't be sorry.
Interview with Christopher Toth, the main man behind the Qwitter client for Twitter.
7 October 2009 - 12:34am | by darraghThere have been recordings about Qwitter before. It's usability, functionality and efficiency have been complemented and admired. However, now, we discuss Qwitter with the man him self, Christopher Toth, the man behind the project. He tells us how he got started, his background and he gives us a sneak peek behind what may happen with Qwitter in the future.
Our huge thanks to Christopher for giving us his time.
An introduction and review of the Qwitter-Client for Twitter.
1 October 2009 - 10:31pm | by darraghThe qwitter-Client software fhas taken the visually impaired twitter community by storm in a very short space of time. It is light weight, very reliable, incredibly easy to use and available for free to everyone via the website www.qwitter-client.net
During this introduction I demonstrate Twitter, go over some of the features of Qwitter and send some example messages via Twitter.
Windows Media Player guide three of three Focusing on ripping a CD to your computer and adding it to a playlist.
23 July 2009 - 11:10am | by darraghThis is a three part series looking at the use of Windows media player from the perspective of a screen reader user. This part will focus on ripping a CD and adding it to the playlist we added in part two of this series. Oh. and we begin to use our new standardised introduction song.
Windows Media Player guide two of three focusing on how to create and add to a playlist.
23 July 2009 - 11:07am | by darraghThis is a three part series looking at the use of Windows media player from the perspective of a screen reader user. This part will focus on how to create a playlist and how to add music to it from within windows media player and from navigating through windows explorer.
