Listen as we introduce a new Main Menu team! Also Randy Rusnak interviews Judy Dixon about new changes in the bard moble app.

This episode features the tech talk presentation on Jaws 17. Thanks to the folks at http://accessible.org for allowing us to air this presentation.

Hi Everyone, On MainMenu this week, it is all about what is soon to be new with the release of Jaws For Windows version 17. By the end of the month, it will be here! And wow, is this month already flying by! We are half way through. Can you believe it? Will you be ready for this new release? This week, we are pleased to bring you a presentation by Freedom Scientific, Director of Training, Dan Clark, who will once again, be with us, giving us a demonstration of the new features of this release. Many thanks to Dan for another excellent presentation on MainMenu! For Jaws users of version 16, there is an update which was released on October 14th, Jaws version 16.0.4463, available using the downloads link on the main webpage at www.freedomscientific.com.

On MainMenu this week we bring you several short demonstrations of features in iOS 9.0 presented by MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge. Presentations include: 1. Demonstration of the new text selection feature in iOS 9.0. 2. Demonstration of the VoiceOver practice area with selection of handwriting, and Braille screen writing enabled on the roter. 3. Setting the preference for the VoiceOver VO keys on a bluetooth keyboard. 4. A tutorial on setting the "Hey Siri" feature on your device. 5. A day in the use of "Hey Siri" on the iPhone 6S. Our second feature for this week will be a presentation by Greg Stilson Manager for Braille and GPS products at Humanware of writing and reading Unified English Braille UEB on the Apex note taker. This new feature was just added in Apex firmware release 9.5 this summer. Do not forget that we will be having a very special presentation next week with Dan Clark from Freedom Scientific introducing us to all the new features in Jaws for Windows version 17. This will be a very special presentation that you will not want to miss. We learn that there's an update for the Bard Mobile for Android. Any of you out there who love your Android devices and would like to come demo your use of this app, we'd love to include you in our MainMenu lineup of topics to cover!

The feature presentation on MainMenu this week is David Wilkinson from Hims Inc. with an overview of the new features in the recently released version 8.5 version of the Braille Sense firmware. Features include the ability to give a PowerPoint presentation including showing the slides on a projector to the people in the group right from your Braille Sense, downloading content from NLS Bard, and much more. In addition we will update you on the latest software releases in the tech world this week.

This week, on Main Menu: Apple Picking With Larry and David Woodbridge! Yes, fall is a great time to go Apple picking, and this week on MainMenu acbradio.org Director Larry Turnbull and MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge set down to fill us in on all the latest hardware and software from Apple. By the time you have finished hearing all the latest from Apple we are sure you will have a much better idea which Apples you may want to pick this fall. (A few of the team particularly like those Macintosh Apples! Lol Yum!)

It was a busy week for new tech this week, and we will tell you about all the new tech happenings this week, and we will feature: Jonathan Mosen with part 2 of the announcement and new features in Jaws 17 and also the latest release of Magic large print software this week. Then David Woodbridge tells us about the three big new features in the recently released KNFB Reader app. You will not want to miss this show or you may not know what you have missed in new tech this week.

This week we air part 2 of the Information Access Committee Presentation.

In this episode we listen to the latest FS Cast from Freedom Scientific. Jonathan Mosen and Eric Damery talk about new features coming in Jaws 17.

MainMenu is pleased to air the first of a two part presentation of the ACB Information Access Committee - Information 411 presentation from the 2015 ACB Conference and Convention. This presentation will inform you on the activities of the IAC, what the committee has been involved with during the past year, what are some of the current information access activities that they are currently working on, and what is coming up in the future. The IAC would like to encourage you to become a part of the voice for change as you work to encourage more access to information, and let them know of issues that they need to work on in the future. Change will not come unless we are willing to insist on it changing. And, together we can make change and improvements in access to information happen today and in the future...