Category: FSCast

FSCast 225, Bill McCann of Dancing Dots, & Campbell Rutherford, a former Freedom Scientific Student Of The Month

FSCast January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

On FSCast 225, we celebrate Braille Literacy Month with two guests for whom braille plays a pivotal role. Bill McCann, founder of Dancing Dots, has been helping blind musicians with all aspects of music creation for the past 32 years. And Campbell Rutherford, a former Freedom Scientific Student of the Month, is now studying applied …

FSCast 224, archive of the November 2022 FSOpenLine

FSCast December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

On FSCast 224, it’s the archive of the November 2022 FSOpenLine. We discuss improved support for the Outlook Scheduling assistant in JAWS 2023, and take your questions on a variety of topics including: searching for commands in JAWS and Office apps, preventing mail from going to the Outlook Junk folder, and providing resources to people …

FSCast 223, Kim Charlson & Thomas Reid discuss the 2022 Audio Description Awards

FSCast November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

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 …

FSCast 222, A demo of how to customize notifications using regular expressions, and Leona Godin discusses her book “There Plant Eyes: A Personal & Cultural History of blindness”

FSCast October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 1

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 …

FSCast 221, Christine Ha talks about her career as a blind chef, and Judy Dixon discusses her book “Formatting Documents for Appearance”

FSCast September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

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 …

FSCast 220, Archive of the August 2022 FSOpenLine

FSCast September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

On the Archive of the August 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. Activate …

FSCast 219, Ryan Jones previews our 2023 software public betas, and we meet Svetlana, Freedom Scientific’s July Student Of The Month

FSCast August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

On FSCast 219, we’ll spend some time with Ryan Jones, Freedom Scientific’s new Vice President of Software Product Management. He’ll give us 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 …

FSCast 218, Eric Damery looks back on his career

FSCast July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

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 generally 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 …

FSCast 217, archive of the June 2022 FSOpenLine

FSCast July 13, 2022July 13, 2022

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 …

FSCast 216, A demo of the new JAWS Notification History Manager, and a visit with Richard Oehm

FSCast June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

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 …