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On FSCast 223, it's the Second Annual Audio Description Awards put on by the American Council of the Blind. We'll hear about some of the winners and talk about all things audio description with Kim Charlson, co-chair of the ACB Audio Description Project, and Thomas Reid, audio description narrator and host of the Gala two years running.

Transcript available at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast.

On FSCast 222, we'll demonstrate how creating rules to manage notifications just got more powerful, thanks to the use of regular expressions. It may sound a bit intimidating, but we'll take it step by step, and you'll see just how easy it really is. Then we'll meet M. Leona Godin and hear about her book "There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness."

Transcript and links available at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast.

On FSCast 221, we'll get to know chef and entrepreneur Christine Ha. Since winning "Master Chef" Season 3 back in 2012, she's published a cookbook, opened multiple restaurants, hosted a cooking show on AMI Canada, and more.

Then Judy Dixon will be here to talk about her latest book. It's about Microsoft Word and called "Formatting Documents for Appearance."

Transcript available at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast.

On the Archive of the August 2022 FSOpenLine, Ryan Jones, Glen Gordon, and Rachel Buchanan take your calls on a variety of topics including: Math in Braille with JAWS, switching Braille tables on the fly, Quick Keys in Word, efficiently reading Windows event logs, and why new JAWS versions are installed along side old ones.

Transcript available at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast.

On FSCast 219, we'll spend some time with Ryan Jones, Freedom Scientific's new Vice President of Software Product Management. He'll share a bit of his background, talk about what's coming in the JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2023 product betas, and demonstrate the new JAWS Smart Glance feature.

Then a visit with Svetlana, the Freedom Scientific July Student of the Month.

Transcript available at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast.

On FSCast 218, Eric Damery joins Glen Gordon for what will probably be the last time. After over 28 years tirelessly advocating for JAWS and other software, and always being around to help users who are having problems, he's decided to retire. This time, rather than talking about a new product feature, Eric is here to reflect upon some of the highlights of his career.

You can read the transcript, and listen to some of the obsolete 1996 JAWS 2.0 training tapes, at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast.

On the archive of the June 2022 FSOpenLine, we take your calls on a variety of topics including: using JAWS with the Dvorak keyboard layout, a request for better support of WhatsApp on Windows, using JAWS with the touch screen on a Surface Pro, switching from JAWS Professional to a Home license, and lack of spoken feedback when selecting messages in Thunderbird.

Read the transcript at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast

On FSCast 216, we have an answer to the age-old question, "What do you do about applications that tell us too much?" It's the new JAWS Notification History Manager to the rescue. With it, you can gain precise control over which messages are spoken and which are shown in Braille. We'll get you started by demonstrating how to make Microsoft Edge less chatty.

Then we'll get to know Richard Oehm, electronics engineer, entrepreneur, doctor of Optacons, and all-around interesting guy.

Read the transcript at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast.

On FSCast 215 we'll get to know long-time developer Joe Stephen. In addition to his work on JAWS, he does manual labor on his family farm in rural Tasmania and manages to find the time to add accessibility support to some handheld ham radios.

Then Toby Willis will be here to talk about Expedia and their current initiatives to make booking travel more inclusive.

Text transcript at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast

On FSCast 214, Adrian Amandi will be here to talk about the Second Annual National Coding Symposium. It's aimed at blind students of all ages to get them interested in careers in software development. The conference is free, online, and available to people worldwide.

Then we'll get to know Gary O'Donoghue, Chief North America Political Correspondent for the BBC, and longtime JAWS user.