Matthew Horspool is the General Manager at the Braillists Foundation, which promotes braille and braille technology. He is also heavily involved in both the braille and assistive technology industries, and his day job is delivering screen reader and braille display/notetaker training.

Matthew will speak about choosing a Braille Display. Some of the factors that are important in choosing a Braille Display include: price, type of keyboard, built-in features etc. He will talk about the most common displays on the market and explain how they stack up against those factors..

Microsoft has been hard at work on the next release of Windows 11. Come learn more about the new Windows Explorer, the new CoPilot for Windows, all new voices for Narrator, the changes to Windows settings and much more. We will also spend some time talking about the steps you might consider in taking to optimize your current Windows installation, especially if you use Edge as your browser of choice. Come learn some tips and tricks to tame the Alt + Tab command to your liking and so much more!

Quentin Christensen has been part of the NV Access team since 2015 after working as an adaptive technology trainer with a major blindness agency for over a decade. As the Training and Support Manager, Quentin is responsible for the NVDA training materials, certification program and coordinating telephone support. Quentin also writes the fortnightly “In-Process” blog, and is the NV Access presence on a range of social media platforms and email lists.

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Microsoft has been hard at work on the next release of Windows 11. Come learn more about the new Windows Explorer, the new CoPilot for Windows, all new voices for Narrator, the changes to Windows settings and much more. We will also spend some time talking about the steps you might consider in taking to optimize your current Windows installation, especially if you use Edge as your browser of choice. Come learn some tips and tricks to tame the Alt + Tab command to your liking and so much more!

Kindle has over 6 million titles in its US Kindle Store. These books can be read using personal computers, Braille devices, smart phones, and Amazon Echo devices. John and Myrna will provide an overview of using these devices to read Kindle content.

Ryan joins us this year as we prepare for the official new release of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion version 2024. We will do a review of the key features and hear all about the release schedule and what to expect. In addition, Ryan will introduce Sharkvember and the “Next Big Thing” contest that Freedom scientific is currently running.

Lots of new and exciting things have happened at Mystic Access since we’ve last had the pleasure of appearing on Tek Talk. In this presentation, we’ll catch you up a bit by discussing one of our most popular newer tutorials on the BlindShell Classic Ii, our bran new tutorial on the Victor Reader Stream 3 which is available to anyone absolutely free, and give you the dish about a few things that will be appearing in the near future. And, just for fun, we’ll also demo a neat app, Call Annie, which features AI, and is free for download for iOS and Android.

Come learn what is new in iOS 17. Apple has been busily working on the new release and on the 18th of September the world will have access to the new release. Come learn about the many features that are new in this release. We will discuss everything from phone changes, voice mail changes, messaging, VoiceOver changes, interactive widgets and so much more. Expect for a long presentation of the new items in this release. It may seem small from an end-user perspective but the amount of change is significant!

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Please once again join us in welcoming HIMS National Account Manager Earle Harrison as he discusses the latest firmware release for the SensePlayer portable book reader, multimedia player and field recorder. The most notable improvements include the ability to customize navigation and speech parameters within the DAISY player and Document Reader, the inclusion of the HIMS Mobile Screen Reader and the ability to access third-party apps such as BARD, Audible and so much more.