Podcast and Blog

J-Tools 3.1

April 6th, 2010

Brian previews the upcoming features of J-Tools, version 3.1

Talking iPod Shuffle part 2

August 26th, 2009

Anna Dresner continues to look at the talking iPod Shuffle within the context of the Apple Mac.

Talking iPod Shuffle part 1

August 26th, 2009

Anna Dresner demonstrates the Talking iPod Shuffle within the context of the Apple Mac! Part 1

StreetTalk VIP Seminar

July 19th, 2009

Jonathan Mosen from Freedom Scientific presents a seminar about StreetTalk VIP and the Focus Blue Braille display

Plextor Seminar

July 19th, 2009

This is the Sight Village Plextor seminar

the ssaturday after sight

July 18th, 2009

terry chats from the relative ssanity of his studio, brings some listener feedback and an unbroadcast podcast from Thursday.

Chat with Julie Rodaway

July 16th, 2009

Brian talks to Julie Rodaway about the great things she has seen at this year's Sight Village

Chat with Jonathan Mosen

July 16th, 2009

Brian takes Jonathan outside and talks to him about technology, travel, and T-Shirts

J-Tools Dictate

July 15th, 2009

This post was recorded early on Wednesday morning and is a brief demonstration of J-Tools Dictate

yet another podcast from Wednesday

July 15th, 2009

This time Terry takes his life in his hands and walks the halls with Charlotte!

another chat from wednesdays sight village

July 15th, 2009

now we talk to Dan from GW micro, did he actually meet the queen?

Chat with Will Lomas

July 15th, 2009

Regular podcast listener Will Lomas talks on the podcast

second wednesday post

July 15th, 2009

here we find out about whos on the t&t stand today and chat about what's in stolr.

End of Tuesday

July 14th, 2009

Terry and Brian talk about the first day of Sight Village, the new version of J-Tools, seminars, and much more

Mondays pre-sight villege chat

July 13th, 2009

OK we're getting close now, and Terry and Brian chat as we run up to Sight Villege 2009.

sundays podcast

July 12th, 2009

today we meet T&T's audiologist Neil Walker, chat about list activity and more! enjoy!!

Saturday Chat

July 11th, 2009

Brian has technology news, a listener contribution, Book Sense comments and an interview with Steve Nutt of Computer Room Services, a Book Sense dealer

Fridays Episode

July 10th, 2009

Today amongst other things we catch up on some breaking sight villege news, and meet Terry Robbinson from www.describe-online.com

Technology Chat

July 9th, 2009

Brian talks about the Book Sense, plays some listener comments and takes you through the two Sight Village web sites

Wednesdays episode

July 8th, 2009

in this post Terry talks to a guest listener, and amongst other things provide useful information about the forthcoming Sight Villege seminars.

Sight Village chat and Dancing Dots

July 7th, 2009

Brian talks about Sight Village, gives some reaction to listener comments and interviews Bill McCann from Dancing dots

Mondays podcast episode

July 6th, 2009

today we find out the link between notetakers and jonathan mosen, and hear from a podcast listener.

Going Back in Time

July 5th, 2009

Brian plays some material from the Infotech magazine archive

Going back in time

July 5th, 2009

Brian plays some material from the Infotech archives.

welcome to the sight villege podcast

July 4th, 2009

This post welcomes you to this years podcast, looks back at last years event, and discusses the different ways to interact with the blog and podcast this year.

Audio Preview of J-Tools 1.3

April 22nd, 2009

Brian demonstrates the new features of the upcoming J-Tools 1.3 release, with support for Firefox, Outlook, OutTwit for using Twitter, and more.

Podcast on New Talking iPod Nano 4th Gen

September 27th, 2008

Brian demonstrates the new iPod 4th generation Nano from Apple with speech prompts.
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iTunes Version 8 Accessibility

September 20th, 2008

Brian talks about and demonstrates the most recent release of iTunes for the windows operating system with Window-Eyes, JAWS and the upcoming J-Tunes scripts which link JAWS and iTunes together.
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JAWS Scripting Workshop in the UK

September 17th, 2008

We are hosting a two day workshop to introduce people to the basics of writing scripts for JAWS for Windows.
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J-Tools Helps JAWS Users with word processing, Email and the Internet!

August 30th, 2008

The soon to be released J-Tools product for JAWS for Windows makes it even easier for people to work with word processed documents, Email and especially the Internet. Brian Hartgen from our company and Sue Martin from the Veterans Administration for one hour take you through many aspects of this brand new product.
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The Sonata

August 21st, 2008

Podcast listener John Gallagher from Sheffield in this short episode tells us about how easy it is to use the Sonata radio from the wireless for the Blind fund.
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Getting to Grips with the I-Tel

August 18th, 2008

During the Sight Village coverage, we briefly mentioned the I-Tel, a device allowing you to access the contents of your iPod. Brian takes a look at this new device.

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Presentation About the All Formats Charter

July 19th, 2008

Staff from Queen Alexandra College in Birmingham talk about the All Formats Charter for the recognition of provision of material in accessible media for visually impaired people.

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MAGic Presentation from Freedom Scientific

July 19th, 2008

In this presentation, we hear about MAGic V11 from Freedom Scientific together with the Onyx camera.

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Our Annual Montage!

July 19th, 2008

Listen to our amusing review of Sight Village 2008!

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J-Say 6.1 Feature Pack

July 18th, 2008

Next week the J-Say Pro 6.1 Feature Pack will be released. The following link points to an audio visual presentation prepared by Sue Martin, a J-Say Beta Tester and Co-Author of the J-Say tutorial.
This is a wonderful opportunity to hear and see, (for those who can), J-Say at work.

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Dolphin Computer Access Presentation on Easy Converter

July 18th, 2008

This is the presentation regarding version 3 of Easy Converter from Dolphin Computer Access.

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Talking Tactile Technologies Presentation

July 18th, 2008

This is a presentation from the Royal National College for the Blind concerning Talking Tactile Technologies.

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Football for the Visually Impaired

July 18th, 2008

This is a very interesting presentation from the Royal National College for the Blind concerning football for visually impaired people.

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Presentation from Baum

July 18th, 2008

Baum talk about their range of Braille displays.

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Presentation from AI Squared

July 18th, 2008

AI Squared discuss Zoomtext and the new Zoomware product within their presentation.

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Making Stories

July 18th, 2008

To celebrate the international year of reading, the RNIB National Library Service presented the Making Stories Seminar.

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Code Factory Presentation

July 18th, 2008

This is a presentation from Code Factory concerning reading with mobile phones.

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Freedom Scientific Podcast on JAWS and TypeAbility

July 17th, 2008

This is the presentation from Freedom Scientific concerning JAWS and the typeAbility program, designed to improve keyboarding skills. TypeAbility is a new product sold by our company.

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Dolphin Computer Access Presentation Regarding Scripting

July 17th, 2008

This is the presentation from Dolphin Computer Access concerning scripting within version 9 and 10 of their product range.

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Humanware Presentation on Trecker Breeze

July 17th, 2008

This is the Humanware presentation relating to the Trecker Breeze with lots of audience questions.

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Fiona, Star of the T&T Podcast

July 17th, 2008

Remember the lady who appeared during our Podcast of Sight Village 2007, Fiona Dunn! Well, she’s back talking to Terry at the end of Wednesday, second day.

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Two Drunken Men

July 17th, 2008

Scott and Terry sit next to the “beer machine” at Terry’s home and talk about Sight Village 2008.

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The Trecker Breeze Walk

July 17th, 2008

Dawn takes a walk with Julian from Humanware, and a number of other visually impaired travellers, around the streets neighbouring Sight Village in order to demonstrate the Trecker Breeze in action.

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Tuesday Discussion

July 16th, 2008

Terry talks with a number of people involved with our Sight Village presence this year and takes a walk around some of the exhibition halls, spontaneously catching up with one or two exhibitors along the way.
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Presentation from Plextor

July 16th, 2008

This is the seminar from Plextor giving details of their upcoming new DAISY recorder.

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Presentation from GW Micro

July 16th, 2008

This is the seminar from GW Micro giving details of Window-Eyes scripting.

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Presentation from Dolphin Computer access

July 16th, 2008

This is the presentation from Dolphin concerning the latest version of Hal and Supernova on the Internet.

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Wireless for the Blind Fund Presentation

July 16th, 2008

This is the presentation of the Wireless for the Blind Fund in the UK who tell us about the Sonata, which can deliver spoken word and radio content using the Internet to people who do not wish to use a computer.

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Freedom Scientific Presentation on Pac Mate Omni 6.1

July 16th, 2008

Jonathan Mosen from Freedom Scientific describes and demonstrates Pac Mate Omni V6.1.

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It's That Time Again!

July 12th, 2008

Terry, Brian and Scott informally talk about the upcoming Sight Village exhibition including what they are looking forward to and what our company will be offering at the event.

Interviews with CSUN Exhibitors

March 19th, 2008

Brian takes a walk around the CSUN exhibition hall and interviews a number of company representatives manufacturing interesting products.

Announcement of Audio Interviews Feature

March 16th, 2008

Unusually, this is a text post rather than an audio one, written by Brian Hartgen.

Well cSUN is now over and later this afternoon I will fly back to L A. It was great to meet so many people who visited our booth to learn about our products, and I was demonstrating them almost until [...]

Close of Friday

March 15th, 2008

Brian and terry talk about new products at CSUN, together with Say-MAGic for low vision computer users.

Early Thursday

March 14th, 2008

Terry chats from the T&T Consultancy booth around an hour into the start of this year’s exhibits.

Dolphin Scripting

March 14th, 2008

We bring you a fascinating presentation from Dolphin Computer Access as they reveal a new scripting language which forms part of version 9 of their product range.

Close of Thursday

March 14th, 2008

Terry Tracey an Tracey chat to you from the hotel bar after a long day, reflect on the day, look forward to Brian’s posts and sample the local beverage delights.

Freedom Scientific General Session

March 14th, 2008

Brian introduces and records the Freedom Scientific General Session and talks about the ongoing presentations at the Hilton Hotel being delivered by the company.

Sydney Introduction

March 8th, 2008

Scott and Terry re-launch the Podcast, discuss what is to come and give details of the new Australian company from T&T.

UK Office Opening

March 8th, 2008



Brian took a recording of the opening of the new prestigious UK offices. The first segment was recorded outside the new training suite. The second part was recorded inside the training area, comprising a large room with projector, conference audio speakers, and many work space areas for people to use computers when being [...]

Tuesday Morning

March 8th, 2008

Terry talks from the hotel room on Tuesday morning prior to opening the new offices in Australia.

Official Australian Opening

March 8th, 2008

Terry discusses with Scott ahead of the opening of the new Australian offices, we have the official opening itself and audience reactions.

Arrival In L A

March 8th, 2008

As Terry arrives in L A ready for CSUN, we hear from him albeit a little jet lagged!

Battle of the Blindness PDA's

October 7th, 2007

In this post You can hear a debate we delivered at the Techshare international conference of 2007, concerning the Pac Mate from Freedom Scientific and the Braille Note from Humanware.