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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 this week just for you!!!

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 the new accessibility of the new operating system and its' features. It's all on MainMenu this week just for you!!!

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 about Voice Over Sounds in Mountain Lion. It's all on MainMenu this week just for you!!!

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 Convention. It's all on MainMenu this week just for you!!!

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 accessing and writing text documents on iCloud using Voice Over and Text Edit in Mountain Lion. Jamie Pauls from the SeroTalk Podcast Network returns again with another interview from ACB 2012, this time he speaks with Dolphin computer access about some new updates and products coming soon from them. Finally, Shane Davidson continues his interview and demo of the Swamp audio game.

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 Podcast Network interviews a representative from the American Printing House for the Blind and they discuss a number of the products being sold by APH. And finally we hear an interesting discussion of the good and bad of Apple OSX by the hosts of The Technology Wizzard Podcast.

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 interviews Ron Miller from Freedom Scientific, and they discuss some of the new products from FS. Shane Davidson brings us the second part of his interview and demo of the Swamp Audio Game. And David Woodbridge demos the Accessibility Panel shortcuts in Mountain Lion. Main Menu can first be heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Visit the Main Menu website at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org