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ViewPoints 1152 12-28-12 Highlights from 2011

This year-end retrospective featured highlights from shows throughout 2011. If you'd like to listen to one of those shows or read the show notes, search for the show number in the archive at:
Archives of shows and show notes
You can also click on one of the links below to listen to the show referenced.

Below are the tips heard in the audio clips from some of the folks we've interviewed this year. click on the link provided to download or listen to each show:

• Jose Tamayo #1150 Extreme Sports for the blind - canoeing
• Abby Freeman #1144 Accessible Voting
• Victor Tsaran #1151 Music production with Sonar
• Ramy Moustafa #1146 Music performance and annotation
• Ross McGregor #1130 Being a blind professional musician
• Rebecca Alford #1143 Selecting and applying to college

Other shows we discussed in this retrospective include:

• The Bookport Plus
• Using Skype
• Sonar and JSonar - audio production software
• Audacity - free audio editor
• Accessible games and toys
• Local support groups
• JAWS and basics of screen readers
• Advanced screen reader functions in JAWS
• New features in JAWS 13
• Web resources for learning
• Singing Samantha voice (dating and beyond)
• Ross McGregor explains how he made Samantha sing
• Eloquence and Samantha argue (getting and acquiring audio books)
• Living with a blind person
• Bop-It (blind friendly games and toys)
• Tony's "hooter" as heard in the show about Vinux (an accessible Linux for the blind)
• Peter looks at the "fawn" statue (accessible art museums)

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