Vispero Connect

On FSCast 213, Dr. Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Rice University, discusses the Braille code for the International Phonetic Alphabet, why reading Braille is different than reading print, and his ongoing research about how Braille is taught.

Transcript available at https://blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast

On the archive of the February 2022 FSOpenLine, we take your calls on a variety of topics including: new VocalizerExpressive voices in the latest software updates, keystrokes for identifying the site to which a link points, finding out where a file will be saved, Eloquence spontaneously getting louder mid sentence, and certain video cards hijacking keystrokes to rotate the screen.

Transcript available at blog.freedomscientific.com/FSOpenLine.

On FSCast 211, Chancey Fleet discusses training workshops offered by the New York Public Library, many of which are online and available to everyone. She's also quite the expert on 3D printing and will share some resources for doing that accessibly.

Then Glen demonstrates using the new Windows Terminal, and gives an introduction to working at the Windows Command Prompt.

Transcript available at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast

On FSCast 210, a focus on accessible science. Maureen Hayden will share her experiences being low vision and doing her Ph.D. in marine biology. Then Dr. Greg Williams and Ashley Neybert from Independence Science demonstrate the Talking LabQuest and Logger Pro® software, tools for making science experiments accessible. Of course, JAWS plays an active part in the accessibility story.

Transcript available at blog.freedomscientific.com/fscast.

On FSCast 209, Ryan Jones is here to talk about the process of running is annual Christmas light show involving thousands of lights choreographed to music. He does everything from putting lights on the roof to sequencing the light display using special software that JAWS makes accessible.

Then we'll meet Pedro Zurita who has spent his life advocating for blind people around the world and served as secretary general of the World Blind Union from 1986 to 2000.

Transcript available at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast, as is the letter Pedro Zurita wrote to Louis Braille.

On the archive of the December FSOpenLine, we take your calls on a variety of topics including: ideas to improve Text Analyzer, JAWS failing to announce word count when reading the Word Status Bar, shortcut keys for JAWS speech history, simplified Braille tables for Braille learners, and the status of JAWS running on computers that use an ARM processor.

On FSCast 207, improvements to Tandem security require JAWS and Fusion to be up to date, and Richard Kuzma tells us how he's using a combination of Tandem and Voice Assistant to support a fellow blind user.

Though Windows 11 sports a new visual look, it's very much like Windows 10 if you're a JAWS user. We'll demonstrate some of what's changed to help you decide if now is the time to update.

Plus, a visit with Cassandra McNabb McKinney whose low vision and works as a funeral director and Embalmer. She had a personal calling to pursue this profession, and we'll here the story of what it took to get to where she is today.

On FSCast 206, McDonald's has partnered with Freedom Scientific and TPGI to develop their accessible self-order kiosks. Over 500 have rolled out throughout the U.S., with more coming before the end of 2021.

Ryan Jones will give us a demo. And then we'll talk with Kelsey Hall, a product manager on the McDonald's Digital Accessibility team, about how all the pieces of the project came together.

Transcrript at blog.freedomscientific.com/FSCast.

On FSCast 205, Eric Damery is back with more about what's coming in JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2022, and how you can try those features early. Then we'll meet Daniele Casarola. He spent over two years teaching himself stenography and now works as a court reporter in Italy. He does it with the help of a JAWS plugin for Plover, his stenography program.

Transcript available at blog.freedomscientific.com/FSCast.

On the archive of August FSOpenLine, public betas of JAWS, ZoomText and Fusion have been released, home annual licenses are now available in Canada, and severe memory leaks on many computers running Dell Waves Audio. Plus, we take your calls on a variety of topics including: a request to show a running clock on Braille status cells, a desire for advanced Teams training, a push for additional Vocalizer Expressive voices, and hearing JAWS when a Bluetooth headset is on a call.

Transcript available at blog.FreedomScientific.com.