News from the cutting edge of assistive technology
At the end of last Year, Microsoft announced that future versions of the Edge web browser will be based on Chromium, the same framework that’s powered Google Chrome from the beginning. This means that the new Edge will immediately benefit from all of Google’s work to ensure that Chrome embraces accessibility standards, and the work …
Read More The New Microsoft Edge Preview Has Great Accessibility SupportMicrosoft PowerPoint is a popular application used to create presentations and is widely utilized by students and professionals everywhere. As a JAWS user or trainer tasked with teaching this application to someone who is blind, you may find it difficult to integrate inherently visual content into presentations in a way that makes sense from a …
Read More Using PowerPoint with JAWS – Creating Effective and Engaging PresentationsDuring our April 4th webinar, we presented various features of Microsoft Word and demonstrated how to use them with JAWS. Now it’s time for another FS Skill Building and Review where we’ll break down a few of those tasks into interactive lessons for a more comprehensive training experience. You’ll have the opportunity to either follow …
Read More FS Skill Building and Review – Using JAWS with MS WordJohn and Larry Gasman catch up with Jonathan Mosen and find out about his work with AIRA, Terry Bray talks about being a JAWS beta tester, and Larry Lewis explains how JAWS Inspect visualizes the screen reading experience. Right click this link to save the podcast or read the transcript.
Read More FSCast 169 – Interviews from the 2019 CSUN Technology ConferenceNews about our free training webinars and other learning resources, a preview of improvements to student licenses, what’s coming in the JAWS April update, and of course your calls. Right click this link to save the podcast or read the transcript.
Read More FSCast 168, archive of the March 2019 FSOpenLineMicrosoft Word is a powerful word processor that is widely used in the workplace, for school, and at home for personal use. When using JAWS, it’s important to be aware of the features that will provide the functionality that makes creating and editing documents as well as reading and formatting them easier. Whether you’re new …
Read More Gaining Access to Microsoft Word with JAWSFSOpenLine, Freedom Scientific’s call-in show is undergoing a minor change. Instead of being held monthly as it has been since the first episode in August of 2018, we will now host our popular question and answer show quarterly. Every three months, you’ll still have the opportunity to present us with your burning questions about Freedom …
Read More FSOpenLine Schedule ChangeThe Freedom Scientific Training team is adding a new learning opportunity to our regularly scheduled trainings. Thanks to your valuable feedback, we have developed FS Skill Building and Review, a monthly interactive session with our training team that allows you to learn and practice tasks that build upon topics covered in our webinars. We will …
Read More Introducing FS Skill Building and ReviewGlen Gordon joins John and Larry Gasman to provide the backstory on why we now offer podcast transcripts. Eric Damery remembers some of the early CSUN technology conferences and sets the stage for the one occurring the week of March 11. He also offers a sneak peek at the new Picture Smart feature included in …
Read More FSCast 167 – Podcast transcripts, CSUN technology conference history, and previews of features coming in the March updates of JAWS, ZoomText, and FusionZoomText is a powerful application offering a wide range of features that provide users with low vision access to screen content and is available in two options: ZoomText Magnifier and ZoomText Magnifier/Reader. It is fully customizable, allowing you to set the magnification levels, screen colors, and tracking options to suit your preferences and needs. If …
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