February, 1997

1. NEW AT THE 'tute



• Latest Version of What's New


2. We welcome a new member to the internet community:
   
   Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired



3. Access To Technology For Students With Disabilities at the University of Oregon



4. Audio-Reader is a radio reading service covering Kansas and most of Missouri. Their signal is available to other radio reading services and the occasional hobbyist via satellite. The site includes information and links to the radio reading services th in general.
5. Braille Inc. is a professional braille publishing company, in business for more than twenty years, which specializes in transcribing services for vocational and educational needs.
6. DECtalk Tips, Tricks and Updates - Software and firmware updates for DECtalk hardware products.
7. IBM Special Needs Solutions has updates of Screen Reader/2 and Screen Magnifier/2 that support OS/2 Warp Version 4 (Merlin) and Lotus Notes Release 4.
8. Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (LMBBS) This page is aimed primarily at medical and health-care professionals involved in the care of LMBBS patients and also for parents or relatives wishing to know more about the syndrome and the implications for those affected.
9. Lynx: central repository and index for information about Lynx.
10. The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities: NICHCY is a national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Our special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).
11. Shareware/Freeware:disability related or acts in such a way as to assist users with disabilities. Also check out the files available at the Trace Center for Mouse Cursor Enhancers and Magnification
12. Special Education Exchange - SpEdEx is focusing on the field of blindness - providing a central resource for educators, parents, researchers, vendors, students, persons with disabilities or anyone interested in blindness.
    They sponsor the OMA Exchange! of O&M Associations:
    • COMA
    • NCOMA
    • SOMA
    • SWOMA
    • WOMA
13. Tack-Tiles Braille Systems are interchangeable with standard LEGOŽ-type blocks. They provide a unique bridge, a smoother, shorter, more interesting path to Braille literacy. LOS OLVIDADOS, Ltd., P.O. Box 475, Plaistow, NH 03865-0475
    1-800-TACK-TILE (822-5845) U.S. and Canada or 603 382 1904 //Fax 603 382 1748 Email:Kevin@tack-tiles.com
14. Talking Signs® are used by blind & print impaired people. Signage information is recorded on infra-red transmitters that send messages spoken by the user's hand-held receiver.
15. WEB ACCESS 97 is the successor to a series of conferences which have examined the state and extent of access to graphical user interfaces for blind and visually impaired computer users.
    Coordinators: Project Archimedes and the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference Committee
    Conference: Access sessions to the 6th International WWW Conference
    Dates: April 7-10, 1997
    Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California (approx. 40 miles south of San Francisco)
16. Web Access Resource Center The Smith-Kettlewell Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
17. The Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation: The home of WebABLE



18. New Vendors to Our List:
• The Aroga Group: Computer Solutions for Persons with Disabilities.
  Aroga, 1611 Welch St., North Vancouver B.C. V7P 3G9 CANADA
  Phone: 604-986-7999 Email Low Vision & Blindness Products steve@aroga.com(Steve Barclay)
• Dancing Dots and our GOODFEEL braille music translator.
• Robotron Proprietary Limited Products include: the Eureka Professional, the Aria Braille Palmtop, the Columbus Talking Compass and the BrailleMaster 6 for DOS and Windows.
  General inquiries: info@robotron.net.au
  Robotron Pty.Ltd., 222 St. Kilda Rd., St. Kilda 3182, Australia
  Tel +61 3 9525 5300     Fax +61 3 9525 3560
  


19. Speech Access Products for Windows 95
• ALVA Access Group's OutSpoken for Windows
  (formerly known as Berkeley Access)under development
• Henter-Joyce's Jaws for Windows95
• Microtalk's ASAW
• Papenmeier's Windots 95
• Syntha-Voice's Window Bridge
• Telesensory's ScreenPower for Windows 95
20. Previous What's New Editions:
    Vol. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 . 12 and 13 .

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