Welcome to the first of three specials with recordings from the International AER Conference.

This year marked the 30th anniversary of the organization and you can hear the spirit of this momentous milestone from Ricky and Joe’s Exhibit Hall floor microphones. We would like to thank AER for allowing us to come to San Antonio and capture just some of the event for our SPN listeners. Almost every session from this event will be available from AER themselves. Be sure to follow those links to their sites, or join the organization, to learn more. We would also like to thank our 2014 Summer Show sponsors HIMS Inc. and Elegant Insights for their sponsorship of this, and our other summertime, events. In this special you will hear….

President of AER, Jim Adams, talks 30 years of the past and looks into the future with Joe

Ricky conducts experiments with independence Science

Ricky opens a window on Math with Wolf Products

Joe takes a stroll with Gord from Ambutech

Ricky talks careers and more with the American Foundation for the Blind

Billy Brookshire, of AER, interviews Joe about his thoughts of 30 years and his past time presenting at AER events

Welcome to our first SPN special from NFB 2014 in Orlando, Florida. Ricky Enger and Joe Steinkamp have been hard at work talking with many of this year’s convention exhibitors, so sit back and enjoy the following interviews from the 74th annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind.

We would like to thank HIMS Inc. and Elegant Insights Braille Creations for sponsoring this year’s NFB convention coverage.

Matthew of Humanware talks with Ricky Enger about some exciting updates coming to the second generation Victor Reader Stream.

Joe Steinkamp visits with John Wilson of 3D Photoworks about 3D objects in real time and space.

Ricky Enger learns about Echo-Sense, a mobility aid for the visually impaired.

Joe Steinkamp explores portable low-vision solutions from Abisee.

Ricky Enger speaks with Tony of Enabling Technologies about their latest Braille embossers.

Joe Steinkamp talks with Odin Mobile about the latest news about their mobile phone solutions.

Heather of VitalSource Technologies talks with Ricky Enger about their accessible electronic textbooks.

Ricky Enger brings us some exciting news about the soon-to-be released KNFB Reader.

Welcome back to this week’s edition of the SeroTalk Podcast where Jamie Pauls, Ricky Enger and Joe Steinkamp discuss the top news stories of the week. Here are the links to all the topics discussed in this episode:

Home page of the American Red Cross

iTunes now accepting donations for the American Red Cross Sandy relief efforts

FCC says wireless service is improving after Sandy

iPad Mini review:  The perfect size, but at a price

4th Gen iPad’s A6X Processor Makes It More Than Twice As Fast As Its Predecessor

Apple executive shakeup: Scott Forstall and John Browett are leaving the company

iTunes 11 delayed into ‘end of November’

Apple Releases iOS 6.0.1

Meet Android 4.2

Windows 8: 4 Million Sold in First 3 Days

Windows 8/RT touch interface confuses, frustrates early users

Does Microsoft’s New Windows Phone 8 Have What It Takes To Compete With iPhone?

Windows 7 keeps growing in popularity over XP

Freedom Scientific loses lawsuit against GW Micro

An Immersion into Internet Explorer 9 with JAWS for Windows 14

ACB Radio Tuner Version 7 has been published

Station Playlist Studio Scripts 4.01

Version 1 of Scripts for the Tween Twitter client are released!

Syntellia raises $900K for its Fleksy keyboard, headed to more platforms

AppleVis Podcast: An Introduction to the New Apple Maps App in iOS 6

NBBA 2012 World Series Championship Game Audio

SPN Special: Accessibility Anywhere

Mailbag

From James Muirhead.:

Good morning folks,

Thank you for the informative show and your efforts to apply pressure to various

companies, e.g. Amazon and their Kindles.

Although I muse a Macbook Pro and iPhone 5, I lack a simple braille notetaker.

I am still using a very fragile Braille lite as I still find this the fastest way

to input and retrieve specific information, e.g. details during a phone call or notes

on lectures.

I am on the mailing list for the Braille  +.  Again this seems to be a notetaker

and a great deal more.  I suspect that I would not use a great deal of the “more”.

I have been unable to elicit any response from Brian  MacDonald and the B2G notetaker

I am hoping that it will be more directed to elegant ways of notetaking and finding

information within files.  I am very untidy with my filing and make frequent use

of the “global find” in the braille lite, as I know I may have written about a certain

subject, but cannot remember in which file I wrote it!

Your efforts are much appreciated, though not always the humour.  I particularly

like Ricky when she uses her English accent, which she does very well.

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