The American Council of the Blind hosts various discussion and information lists on our server. You are welcome to join any of these email lists. We hope that you find the information here to be valuable and informative.
The Blind Users Verizon Phones group is the place to talk and learn about how blind or low vision users can get the most out of Verizon's Accessible Phones. These include The Lg Line: VX4500, VX4650, VX4700, VX5200/5300/5400, VX8300/8350/8360 ,VX8500 Chocolate, and the ENv / ENv2 cell phones and Mobile Pocket / Talks enabled SmartPhones.Which include the New release Motorola Q9c/Talks combo and the VX6900 with Mobile Pocket. There are FAQ's and How-To's for this group located at Group Home Which contains files of helpful information for LG VX Phones users. Including Quick Ref. Guides and Our NEW Point-N-Click WEB Based Manuals for the VX4500/VX4650/VX4700. There are also current TEXT READER Manuals for the vx5300/5400, vx8300/8350/8360 and ENv/Env2.
NOTE: This group has a zero tolerance policy for "spam". Advertisements for commercial services or products are considered unsolicited. Any such content will be immediately deleted and reported
Access for the blind is a list dedicated to serve as a forum for discussion by and for people with visual impairments and blindness.
This list is to help keep people informed on changes in the field of adaptive technology, technical support for adaptive technology and to help serve as a user testimonial of the products for the blind and visually impaired.
Topics will includeJAWS for Windows, WindowEyes, Atlas talking maps, Braille embossers, the Braille 'n Speak and OCR reading systems (Open Book and Omni Page Pro).
Feel free to post your comments and join in.
This list has been created for the purpose of discussing any and all aspects of computing with the blind user in mind.
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The Blind Audible Listeners group promotes communications between visually impaired readers of
audio content from Audible.com. In addition to a place to share recommendations of Audible content.
The group offers a forum for sharing tips and techniques for accessing the Audible service Members via screen readers.
Also the use of portable Audible players with limited or no sight.
Blind Gardeners, is a group for blind and visually impaired people who are interested in gardening. Discussion topics include, gardening in general, problems unique to blind and visually impaired gardeners, the availability, quality, and speech accessibility of gardening CD's, gardening books in other formats, and what to do with the produce of the garden. This group is family friendly, so no profanity please.
Blindtech is a list for the discussion of any technology as it affects blind people. This is not a computer -only list, although computing issues certainly constitute the majority of the messages.
Blind windows 7 is for discussing anything to do with using windows 7 with screen readers or large print, and all programs you may have trouble getting to work with windows 7.
Blind Vista is for discussing Windows Vista.
In this group, blind and visually impaired moble phone users, who are using screen reading technology on their mobile devices, are free discuss anything from screen reading software, to third party applications that does or does not work on the mobile device.
We can trade ideas and suggestions on how to get the most out of screen readers, and how to get the most out of third party applications with the screen reading software.
The third party apps could be anything from messenger programs like MSN messenger, to office suites like quick office, to cool tools such as mobi TV.
For the discussion of the next iPhone which will bring new accessibility features, benefiting the visually impaired.
This list is for those of us that are blind or visually impaired and use speech programs. It is for us to discuss chat programs and how well they work with our speech programs. It is also a place you can post your chat times. Like if your planning a chat you can tell all of the members where you'll be so they'll know, and they can join. You also can just get on before your ready to chat or are currently in a chat, and if you plan to be on for a while, you can post it to this list.
This is a group to discuss hardware and software that blind or visually impaired individuals might use with a computer. It is open discussion so covers any question a person wishes to ask. Some areas covered include: JAWS, Window Eyes, Kurzweil, Open Book, Gold wave, k. Some areas covered include: JAWS, Window Eyes, Kurzweil, Open Book, Gold wave, Total Recorder, Nero, Windows, Outlook Express, and Word. Those are just examples and not limitations.
In this group we will discuss configurations, hot keys, shortcuts, problems, how to do questions, and anything else a person wants to dealing with computers.
While there are several other groups which deal with specific topics this one is open topic as long as it relates to computers. Suggestions from members are always welcome. There will be NO bashing, complaining, or adult only content allowed. If you receive an email you do not wish to read delete it.
This is the unofficial list of all Jaws users.
It is a list intended for all blind computer users of Jaws, but all sighted friends are wellcome.
You can find here scripts for some applications, tips and tricks and solutions for many many problems.
Welcome!
BrailleM is a place for discussing and learning about all aspects of braille music code. The list is designed to help beginners in Braille music and give them a place where they can ask questions of more experienced braille music users. The list will also be useful to more experienced users, who can discuss about more difficult passages and formats.
WebSite: Braille Music Page
Join the BrailleNote mailing list to get in touch with other BrailleNote users. The BrailleNote Mailing list is for current BrailleNote and VoiceNote users
This email group is to talk about all sorts of computer stuff, and to get some tech support if able to give it. We all can help each other. This list is for anyone who is into computers, and technology.
participate in the Emacspeak community by subscribing to the mailing list
In the subject line put: subscribe and in the body put: subscribe k1000
Kurzweil Educational Systems
Discussion of Kurzweil products.
a listing of all the public mailing lists on NFB
This is a list where we discuss features of the skype program and the use of it with screen readers and other access technology.
Go here to subscribe to the mailing list.
Feel free to ask any question related to WebVisum or web accessibility in general.
If you're dealing with a problem we'd be happy to help if we can. Hopefully you'll get your problem solved quickly!
Become part of the GW Micro community by subscribing to one or more of our public duscussion lists. You may also wish to subscribe to other Blindness related email lists for more involvement with other users of adaptive technology.