We bring to you a special, two-hour Main Menu show this week! We are pleased to announce that ACB Radio's call-in technology program, Main Menu Live, has returned to ACB Radio Mainstream! Wednesday at 8:00 PM Eastern, we presented two hours with Vispero. Eric Damery joined us first giving us updates on all software products at Freedom Scientific. Next, Ryan and others joined us to talk about all things TPG. What do they do? Learn about techniques for explaining web accessibility and how can you tell a web site or app is accessible? We also talk about the struggles We Face In A Covid-19 World. Finally, Ron Miller joins us to talk all about the ElBraille. Units have started to ship to customers so we talk with some customers and Ron will fill us in on this exciting new device and where it fits in your technology world! Join the Main Menu Live team and the team at Vispero to hear all about the company and the latest technology inventions they are bringing to all of us! Main Menu airs on ACB Radio Mainstream beginning every Friday evening at 9PM, repeating various times throughout the week. To listen and see a full schedule, go to http://acbradio.org/mainstream You can also listen using ACB Link for Android or iOS or find it in your favorite podcast app.

Customize your use of your Apple keyboard and follow the latest weather conditions with ease... Scott Howell and Keith Watson demonstrate using the Keyboard Maestro package on their Mac to allow them to do some fantastic things on their Apple Mac keyboards. And, MainMenu host David Tanner demonstrates using the NOWA Radio Free app for iOS devices to keep your self safe and up-to-date on the current weather conditions and get notifications of watches and warnings about serious weather conditions from the National Weather Service. Keeping you informed is our business on MainMenu.

This week on Main Menu we bring you the latest information from the folks at Microsoft Corporation all about the new Windows 10 anniversary update coming next week to a computer near you. Narrator, the screen reader built-in to Windows 10 is the main focus of our discussion this week and we brought a number of technology experts direct from Microsoft and elsewhere to talk all about it. The following Microsoft engineers joined us on the show from the Windows 10 Narrator accessibility team: Brett Humphrey, Kelly Ford and Dan Hubbell. In addition, Joe Steinkamp joined us from the Blind Bargains site as a technology expert on Windows 10. Microsoft has been hard at work on significantly enhancing Narrator with new voices, performance improvements, a new scan mode, new verbosity settings and so much more. We ask Microsoft questions about the upgrade experience for Windows users and we even dive into the positioning of Narrator as a viable commercial screen reader. This is really just the start of what is a jam packed show. In fact, we have a slight change for this week. We had so much content that was timely we will be airing the content of the show on ACB Radio starting at 9:00 PM Eastern. If you get the podcast version of the show there will be an additional 15 minutes of audio demonstrations of Narrator features included. Here are some important links you should keep in mind for Windows 10: What is coming up in Win10 Anniversary Update August 2 Ready to upgrade? AT user? Please use this link for free upgrade to Windows 10 Narrator user guides and documentation (this link will be live on August 2nd)

Main Menu is back with a packed show this week! We're having way too much fun with new gadgets and apps. Randy is here to help everyone who has a new Amazon Echo Dot with some cool tips and tricks. Jenine gets buzzed with her new Buzz Clip and identifies things with the new AI app identifyer!

It is all about Android on this episode of Main Menu! Whether you are just getting started in the Android world or an advanced android user this show is for you! Listen as Randy and Jayson talk with Nimer Jaber about the ins and outs of the android platform.

The Main Menu Team is always on the hunt for Information but Information is an elusive creature requiring some really slick hunting gear. This week Randy and Jenine have that gear though. Randy demonstrates the eltrinex 12 Pro digital recorder, capturing some amazing sounds. Jenine shows you the hot new app Voice Dream Scanner and how it works with your favorite Voice Dream Reader app. You won't want to miss our adventures!

We are excited because on this show, we reveal another great choice in TV entertainment. We speak with guests Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect, and Mark Mulcahy, Developer on the VoiceView Team, at Amazon. We first hear a brief account of how the VoiceView screen reader came to be followed by what we felt was a pretty exciting announcement and demonstration VoiceView on the Amazon Fire TV. Next up, Jenine Stanley brings us a terrific demonstration of Capti Narrator for iOS in our series called App Olympics.

The Main Menu Team is back and we're zooming right along. Join us as we talk with Deb Lewis about the popular conferencing app Zoom Meetings. What to do when you get a Zoom Meeting invitation, Hosting tips and tricks and so much more. Hang on to your keyboards because away we go!

An introduction to Windows 10 and more about the Apple Watch highlight this show. MainMenu host David Tanner introduces us to the new Narator for Windows 10. And, David also takes us on a tour of the Windows 10 desktop, start menu, and Windows search features. Then David Woodbridge demonstrates the operation of the calendar feature in the Apple Watch. And, he finishes with a demonstration of setting up, sending and receiving email on your Apple Watch. On top of the news we also learn about the just release of NVDA screen reader version 2015 Release 2 and some of the new features in this release including support for Windows 10.

This week on Main Menu we take a tour, Autour to be exact with Jeremy Cooperstock of McGill University. Autour is a unique GPS app for iOS that gives blind people a very interesting view of their surroundings. Then we say hello to Jason's new little friend the Amazon Echo Dot! Main Menu will be moving to a bi-weekly schedule after this fun filled show. This allows your team to bring you timely topics, exciting content and fewer reruns!

Everyone appreciates a better outlook, right? That's what we're talking about on this edition of Main Menu! In another of Microsoft's Accessibility Webinar Series, you'll be hearing all about accessibility improvements in Outlook. Examples with Narrator are included and you'll be shown many of the keyboard shortcuts, too.

This week on Main Menu, we invite Mike Calvo to speak with us about what has been happening at Serotek. You'll hear his thoughts on what has been developing with regard to how operating systems provide access to screen readers as well as what changes are coming to Serotek and how they plan to redefine how the user and their screen reader come together. Afterward, Randy and I will talk about our memories of the early days of System Access and, in the process, I slipped and went back a bit further than I realized. We furthermore touch on some ideas we have up our sleeves for future episodes.

Keeping you up-to-date and in the know with the latest news in the accessible technology field we present this week--- Cullen Gallagher presents a demonstration and shows us the main features of the accessible Comcast X1 settop box with voice guidance for all functions using Comcast cable, movies on demand, recording and viewing shows on the included DVR, and much more. Joseph Lee brings us an excellent tutorial and introduction to the upcoming NVDA 2015.1 version of the popular and free Non-visual Desktop Access screen reader which is expected to be released by the end of February and is now available to the public as NVDA 2015 Release candidate 1.

The feature presentation on MainMenu this week is David Wilkinson from Hims Inc. with an overview of the new features in the recently released version 8.5 version of the Braille Sense firmware. Features include the ability to give a PowerPoint presentation including showing the slides on a projector to the people in the group right from your Braille Sense, downloading content from NLS Bard, and much more. In addition we will update you on the latest software releases in the tech world this week.

MainMenu continues to bring you information on all the latest technologies. And, this week we feature: David Woodbridge continues his review and demonstration of iOS10.9 Mavericks with VoiceOver. And, Mary Emerson demonstrates the accessibility to the new Kindle Fire HDX Book Reader from Amazon. Keeping you on top of the very latest developments in the technology field is our Goal.

On MainMenu this week we bring you several short demonstrations of features in iOS 9.0 presented by MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge. Presentations include: 1. Demonstration of the new text selection feature in iOS 9.0. 2. Demonstration of the VoiceOver practice area with selection of handwriting, and Braille screen writing enabled on the roter. 3. Setting the preference for the VoiceOver VO keys on a bluetooth keyboard. 4. A tutorial on setting the "Hey Siri" feature on your device. 5. A day in the use of "Hey Siri" on the iPhone 6S. Our second feature for this week will be a presentation by Greg Stilson Manager for Braille and GPS products at Humanware of writing and reading Unified English Braille UEB on the Apex note taker. This new feature was just added in Apex firmware release 9.5 this summer. Do not forget that we will be having a very special presentation next week with Dan Clark from Freedom Scientific introducing us to all the new features in Jaws for Windows version 17. This will be a very special presentation that you will not want to miss. We learn that there's an update for the Bard Mobile for Android. Any of you out there who love your Android devices and would like to come demo your use of this app, we'd love to include you in our MainMenu lineup of topics to cover!

Scott Davert introduces us to the amazon Echo Dot. Two popular apps, Roger and Alexa get together. Dan Kysor talks with Mike May about Seeing eye GPS and safety. Then Larry Skutchan tells us about Nearby Explorer from American Printing House, another GPS app. We finish by telling you how to identify all those photos of your adventures using GPS apps with Caption Bot.