Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, July 26, 2007

1) this post from the Access Technologists' Higher Education Network gives lots of links to information about the current situation for making digital textbooks available for US students.
http://athenpro.blogspot.com/2007/07/ahead-e-text-solutions-group-at-ahead.html


2)  china, Denmark, Canada and the US will be participating in a women's Goalball tournament in Alabama this weekend, and you can listen and watch the matches, ask questions and discuss the tournament.
http://www.sports.pressakey.net/goalball


3)  Jim snobarger, the "Snowman,"has updated his JAWS scripting utilities, JLS-Utilities, Home Row on Steroids, and made them free of charge.
http://personal.adiis.net/snowman/JLS_utilities.html


4)  Jonathan Mosen from Freedom Scientific will be demonstrating the soon-to-ship Pac Mate Omni this gmt tuesday 31 July at 00:00 on tek Talk.
http://www.accessibleworld.org


5)  Gw Micro has added three articles to its Knowledge Base concerning the VoiceSense.
http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/


6)  From the EAccess bulletin, we learn of the new online training source in the UK, the AT Portal, offering a range of online courses.  A year's membership costs 100 pounds, and individual courses cost 25 pounds, with a few offered at no cost.
http://www.abilitynettraining.org )


7)  If you have any interest in radio sound bytes from the 60's and 70's in the San Francisco Bay Area, here's a site to explore:
http://www.bayarearadio.org


8)  those in the U.S. who may want to save money on a high-speed Internet connection can explore DSL Extreme, recommended by several people:
https://secure.dslextreme.com/Medusa/DSL/


9)  the AT Network in California is looking for a half-time Assistive Technology Website Editor; telecommuting is negotiable.  the organization's web site is
http://www.atnet.org
and resume and cover letter to apply for the job should be e-mailed to
martinsweeney@ataccess.org



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