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ViewPoints: A podcast with hosts, Nancy Goodman Torpey and Peter Torpey

This half-hour weekly show tells you about products, services and daily living tips that may help you deal with vision loss. It is available in Rochester, NY to listeners of Reachout Radio, the local radio reading service, and to everybody else through podcasts available at the link below.

Topics include things like screen magnification, cell phones, speech synthesizers, the National Library Service, refreshable braille devices, on-line shopping, money identification, Tell Me telephone system, accessible games, audio reading materials and how to download podcasts and other audio file formats. There's something for everyone on ViewPoints.

The Hosts: The Torpeys both have PhD's in Physics and retired from over 25 years in corporate research at Xerox Corporation. Nancy is sighted and Pete is blind, and they've been learning together for many years. Pete and Nancy have two adult children, and they love to travel, hike and enjoy music together.

You can find links for subscribing to the podcast, download individual shows along with show notes, or simply find out more by cllicking on the following link:
www.ViewPointsPlus.net

Some Useful Tools and JAWS Scripts

Below are descriptions and links to several programs, tools, and utilities that may be of interest. They are designed to work well with screen readers.

JAWS Scripts for Band-in-a-Box

These scripts can be used with the PG Music program Band-in-a-Box. Band-in-a-Box is a program for creating, playing, and arranging music. Use the following link to download a zip archive containing the latest JAWS scripts and readme file. These scripts were developed using JAWS 13 and BIAB 2012.
Download for the v 3.55 JAWS Band-in-a-box Scripts

The link below is for version 3.10 of the scripts (an older version) which was developed prior to JAWS 13 and BIAB 2012. If you have problems with the latest scripts, try this older version.
Download for the v3.10 JAWS Band-in-a-box Scripts

Ear Training Program

Practice and develop your musical listening skills with this easy to use program. The user can select to have the program play individual notes, two note intervals, or multi-note chords through their PC speakers. Use the program in a "guessing game" mode or simply play the desired note, interval, or chord. Intervals and chords can either be sounded as simultaneous notes or arpeggiated for easier listening.

Documentation for Ear Training

Download Ear Training

Copy Outlook Contacts, Mail Notes, and Appointments to Text Files

Grab your Outlook Contacts, Mail Notes, and/or Appointments and create text files which can then be easily transferred or copied to almost any portable reading device.

Documentation for OL2TXT

Download for OL2TXT

JAWS Scripts for Enco

These JAWS scripts were developed to facilitate the use of Enco's DAD program for those using the JAWS screen reader. The documentation describes the facilities and keyboard shortcuts enabled by the scripts. You can download a timed demo of the scripts below if you want to see how these scripts work with the DAD program.

Documentation for JAWS scripts for DAD

Download for demo JAWS scripts for DAD

If you have questions about the DAD scripts, are interested in having the developer include additional functionality to the scripts, or are interested in acquiring a fully functional version of the scripts, contact the developer at: Contact Developer: contact@torpey.info

Contact Information

Please direct any questions about the programs, tools, or utilities on this page to the developer at:

Send Mail To: contact@torpey.info