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Freedom Scientific Blog News from the cutting edge of assistive technology Main Main Return to Freedom Scientific Homepage Subscribe to this blog via RSS FSCast- Freedom Scientific’s official podcast FSOpenLine, Freedom Scientific’s live call-in show Expand Search Form Search Categories Categories Select Category Braille ElBraille FSCast FSOpenLine Fusion Information JAWS Low Vision MAGic Next Big Thing OpenBook Student of the Month Training Uncategorized ZoomText Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe .sidebarMay 2024 Student of the Month Highlights Elizabeth Whitaker May 4, 2024 May 4, 2024 0 The Freedom Scientific Student of the Month Program features K-12 students living in the U.S. who are blind or visually impaired and use Freedom Scientific technology to achieve educational goals. Rather than featuring a student this month, we are highlighting a few of our past winners. Kate Kate uses JAWS and the Focus Braille Display … Read More May 2024 Student of the Month Highlights .wrapJoin Us for Our May 2024 Training Events Elizabeth Whitaker May 1, 2024 0 The Freedom Scientific training team offers ongoing opportunities for you to join us in live training sessions and advance your skills. We’re excited to announce our jam-packed May training schedule, where you’re sure to find something that will help you at work, school, or play. If you have questions or need assistance with registration, email … Read More Join Us for Our May 2024 Training Events .wrapFSCast 244, a visit with Ana González Arean, plus Nicky Gillies and Cathy Miller from the Louisiana DeafBlind project FSCast April 24, 2024 On FSCast 244, we’ll meet Ana Gonzalez Arean. She’ll talk about growing up in Venezuela and becoming a language professor at two universities, but then needing to move to Spain to start a new life for herself. Then, Cathy Miller and Nicky Gillies from the Louisiana DeafBlind project discuss some of the challenges of identifying … Read More FSCast 244, a visit with Ana González Arean, plus Nicky Gillies and Cathy Miller from the Louisiana DeafBlind project .wrapLearn Five Power Tips for Navigating Google Docs with JAWS Elizabeth Whitaker April 16, 2024 Are you new to Google Docs? Want tips for creating and managing documents more efficiently with JAWS? Join us Thursday, April 18 at noon Eastern time for a live webinar, Five Power Tips for Navigating Google Docs with JAWS.” What We’ll Cover We’ll provide an overview of the Google Docs interface, and show you how … Read More Learn Five Power Tips for Navigating Google Docs with JAWS .wrapNominate the Next Student of the Month Elizabeth Whitaker April 11, 2024 April 10, 2024 The Freedom Scientific Student of the Month Program features K-12 students living in the U.S. who are blind or visually impaired and use Freedom Scientific technology to achieve educational goals. While in California for the annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, we had the opportunity to meet with a group of our previous students of the … Read More Nominate the Next Student of the Month .wrapFSCast 243, archive of the March 2024 FSOpenLine FSCast April 10, 2024 On the archive of the March FSOpenLine, people share their favorite things to do with PictureSmart AI, including how to use it with FaceInView to describe what’s in the background. And of course questions on a variety of other topics including why JAWS place markers sometimes lose their place, why Thunderbird speaks incoming email notifications … Read More FSCast 243, archive of the March 2024 FSOpenLine .wrapApril 2024 Student of the Month Elizabeth Whitaker April 4, 2024 April 4, 2024 The Freedom Scientific Student of the Month Program features K-12 students living in the U.S. who are blind or visually impaired and use Freedom Scientific technology to achieve educational goals. The Student of the Month for April 2024 is Mina, a tenth grader from California who we had the unique opportunity to interview in-person at … Read More April 2024 Student of the Month .wrapJoin Us for Our April 2024 Training Events Elizabeth Whitaker March 29, 2024 March 29, 2024 The Freedom Scientific training team offers ongoing opportunities for you to join us in live training sessions and advance your skills. We’re excited to announce our jam-packed April training schedule, where you’re sure to find something that will help you at work, school, or play. If you have questions or need assistance with registration, email … Read More Join Us for Our April 2024 Training Events .wrapJoin Us for FSOpenLine Elizabeth Whitaker March 28, 2024 FSOpenLine, Freedom Scientific’s global call-in show, will take place Thursday, March 28 at 8 PM Eastern time. Do you have questions about our products or an idea you want to share? Join us and have your voice heard by key members of Freedom Scientific’s product management and engineering teams. In the last FSOpenLine, we discussed … Read More Join Us for FSOpenLine .wrapFSCast 242, A demo of PictureSmart AI, and a visit with Anil Lewis FSCast March 27, 2024 On FSCast 242, we’ll put the newly released Picture Smart AI through its paces, and you’ll hear the detailed descriptions it can generate for everything from a bar chart to a frame from a YouTube video. Then, a visit with longtime blindness advocate Anil Lewis, Executive Director of Blindness Initiatives of the National Federation of … Read More FSCast 242, A demo of PictureSmart AI, and a visit with Anil Lewis .wrap.wrapPosts navigation 1 2 3 4 … 43 Next .wrap.wrapFreedom Scientific Blog ©...