Hello,
I thought some here might find this of interest - If you've heard all of the
buzz about the social networking tool Twitter and are interested in trying it
out with a screen reader (JAWS or otherwise), take a listen to this podcast
which will introduce you to Twitter, and talk about its accessibility.
Jennison
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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 07:35:50 +1000
From: Steve Pattison <[log in to unmask]>
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To: Access L <[log in to unmask]>, VIP L <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [Access-l] FSCast, Episode 30 is now Available
Episode 30 of FSCast from Freedom Scientiffic is now available and this
month it is all about using Twitter. It can be downloaded from
http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/fscast030-may2009.mp3
This is a direct link to the file. Information about this edition says:
This month's FSCast discusses the use of the social networking site
Twitter in conjunction with JAWS® screen reading software and PAC Mate
Omni™ accessible Pocket PC.
Jonathan Mosen speaks with Shannon Reece, Pratik Patel, and Mika Pyyhkala, who
actively
use Twitter with Freedom Scientific products. They discuss what Twitter is, how
to
sign up, and some third party applications and services they use to make the
most
of it.
Jonathan then speaks with Sean Randall, the author of Jawter, a set of JAWS
scripts that give you access to Twitter from within any application while JAWS
is running.
We're then joined by Jamal Mazrui, author of McTwit. This is a powerful
application written specifically for blind Twitter users, with functions
accessible using a series of keyboard commands.
If you use Microsoft Outlook®, you can send and receive tweets, and run Twitter
searches,
right from within your inbox. The Chief Executive of TechHit, Alex Kovalchuk,
tells us about
TWInbox, formerly known as OutTwit.
While the main Twitter site works very well with JAWS, Accessible
Twitter offers a number of enhancements that makes the Twitter
experience easier. It's creator, Dennis Lembree, tells us all about it.
During our discussions, we mention a number of other Twitter tools. Here are
links
to a few.
Twikini is a Windows Mobile Twitter client that's easy to use, and works
well with PAC Mate Omni.
http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini
Twittermail facilitates the sending of tweets via e-mail, as well as
scheduling tweets to be sent in the future.
http://www.twittermail.com.
Twimailer provides detailed follow notifications, so you can see some
recent tweets from people who are following you
http://twimailer.com
Tweetlater offers many powerful enhancements to Twitter, including
automatic sending of welcome messages and e-mailing a digest of replies.
http://www.tweetlater.com
Show Host: Jonathan Mosen.
Regards Steve
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