All are welcome to call in and participate, even if you're not from the 
Philly area.

Hello. As a reminder, our next monthly phone meeting is scheduled for 
Friday, October 28 at 8:00 PM Eastern time. All are welcome to call in 
and participate or you are free to just listen. There is no scheduled 
topic so it's an open forum, so to speak. There is likely plenty we 
could talk about.

1. As of today, Microsoft made some major announcements concerning 
upcoming hardware and software soon to be released. One of their 
announcements concerned the next major update to Windows 10, which they 
are calling the Creators Update. Sometime during the next week I will 
try and post some information about upcoming features, when I can get 
the time.

2. As of tomorrow (October 27), Apple is planning to announce some new 
hardware, which will likely be new Mac computers. I have mixed feelings 
about the Mac but there's a lot to like about it and many blind people 
use it quite happily.

3. It is likely that JAWS 18 will be out by the time of our meeting. If 
you're a JAWS user, I'll be curious as to whether you've downloaded and 
installed the new version and what you think of it.

4. iOS 10.1 was released this week, with a few accessibility fixes. Come 
to think of it, Apple released updates for all of their products: Mac, 
Apple Watch and Apple TV. For those of you who are running any of these 
latest versions I'd be curious as to what you think of them and whether 
you notice any accessibility-specific improvements.


The number to call is

(712) 432-3900

Access code is 391477, followed by the pound key.


Take care.



-- 
       David Goldfield,
Assistive Technology Specialist

Feel free to visit my Web site
WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info


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