Vispero Connect

On FSCast 203, Eric Damery is here to talk about some of the new features coming in JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2022, and how you can try them out early as part of our public betas.

Then we'll get to know Cory Jackson. He's an escalation specialist in our tech support department, but in his free time has developed a sizable YouTube and TikTok following.

On FSCast 202 we'll get to know financial educator Chris Peterson and learn about some of the advantages of opening an ABLE account.

Then, to celebrate World Emoji Day, I'll be joined by Garreth Tigwell and Benjamin Gorman, two authors of the paper "Emoji Accessibility for Visually Impaired People."

Transcript available at blog.freedomscientific.com/fscast

On FSCast 201, Judy Dixon is here to discuss her new book "Audio Description: What It Is, Where to Find It, and How to Use It." Then we'll meet blind math professor Betsey Doane. She spent over 30 years teaching sighted students, and came up with lots of creative ways of showing math visually.

Transcript available at blog.freedomscientific.com/fscast.

On FSCast 200, it's the archive of FSOpenLine from May of 2021. We had a great group of callers on a variety of topics including: the best way to fast forward YouTube videos, how to give someone remote control of your PC, JAWS sometimes errantly turning on quick keys when responding to email, and how enabling Braille support in Narrator prevents JAWS from recognizing Braille displays.

On FSCast 199, a recording of Glen Gordon's presentation at the National Coding Symposium, a recent virtual event put on to encourage high school students to think about careers involving programming.

Then, a visit with Rocio Casati, the person who's been making our products work well in Spanish for over twenty years. The process of doing that is far more involved than you might think.

Transcript available at blog.freedomscientific.com/fscast

On FSCast 198, what it takes to make astronomy accessible to people who are blind or low vision. We'll meet Kate Meredith, President of GLAS Education, and two students involved with the project, to hear how it all came together.

Then a visit with legendary GPS pioneer Mike May to hear about his life, and learn what's new in indoor wayfinding.

Transcript available at blog.freedomscientific.com/fscast

On FSCast 197, a spotlight on a great Twitter app for Windows called TWBlue. We'll meet its author, Manuel Cortez, and hear the program in action. Then a visit with Michael Hudson, longtime JAWS beta tester and the Director of the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities at Michigan State University.

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

On the archive of the February FSOpenLine, highlights of the February software updates, improved compatibility of JAWS with AVG/Avast antivirus, and your calls on a variety of topics including:

Using the Canvas and Blackboard learning platforms, JAWS sluggishness in audio editors, excessive chattiness of recent versions of Zoom, and showing UEB attribute markers in Braille.

On FSCast 195 we'll meet civil rights activist Ever Lee Hairston. From fighting discrimination and demonstrating with Dr. Martin Luther King, to her journey with vision loss and becoming a leader in the NFB, she has lots of life experience to share.

Then Lil Deverell talks about mental mapping and its impact on how we navigate in the world.

On FSCast 194, Matthew Horspool shows us how he uses JAWS Speech and Sound Schemes. He'll also talk about the perils of having perfect pitch, and the challenges of working as a braille transcriber. Then Joe Sullivan discusses the early years of developing the Duxbury Braille Translator.

Transcript available at blog.freedomscientific.com/fscast.