[blindlaw] This is of interest to blind persons who use Audible.com

Kathleen Hagen khagen12 at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 6 05:56:37 CDT 2007


    Topic: Navigating and Using Audible.com With Ease

Presenter: Woody Anna Dresner, National Braille Press. 
adresner at nbp.org

(888) 965-8965 
http://www.nbp.org


If you have subscribed to Audible.com, the popular source for a wide variety
of audio content, and use a screen reader, it is certain you have
experienced some frustrations navigating its information packed web pages.
During this week's Accessible World Tek Talk event Anna Dresner, acclaimed
author of several technology books and editor of numerous publications,
will provide the basic steps to minimize, if not eliminate altogether, many
problem areas.

Anna will provide a comprehensive overview of the content of Audible.com, ,
the various account options available, how to set up then manage the, and
how to take advantage of the discounts on mp3 players. She will then discuss
in detail Searching for a book, Browsing categories, Playing samples, Adding
to wish list, Adding to shopping cart, including how credits are handled,
Finding and downloading programs in the library, and Controlling wish list
Using podcasts.

As the presentation concludes, Anna will discuss how to listen to the
downloaded books. This will include using Audible Manager to transfer books
to the Audible Player for reading on the PC,the Olympus, BookPort
BookCourier and/or iPod.

You and all your friends will not want to miss this unique opportunity to
learn all about Audible.com: "Audio Books That Speak To You Wherever You
Go!"

: Date: Monday, April 9, 2007

Time: 5:00 p.m. Pacific, 6:00 p.m. Mountain, 7:00 p.m. Central, 8:00 p.m.
Eastern and Tuesday 00:00 GMT.

Where: Tek Talk Online Conference Room

Since we are now using the new Talking Communities conferencing software, we
urge you to plan to arrive well in advance of the start time. Go to our
website at:

http://www.accessibleworld.org


Select the Tek Talk Room.

If this is the first time you have entered our new rooms, you will need to
install and then run the Talkcom software. It is very small and safe to
install on your computer.

Then return to the sign-in screen and select the Enter Room button. Enter
your first and last name, tab to the log in button, and press Enter. No
password is required.

Tell all your friends to join us. There is plenty of room for everyone.

Archives of all training events and sign up information for the two Tek Talk
mailing lists are available at: 
http://www.accessibleworld.org.


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    Topic: Navigating and Using Audible.com With Ease
 
Presenter: Woody Anna Dresner, National Braille Press.
mailto:adresner at nbp.org adresner at nbp.org
 
(888) 965-8965
http://www.nbp.org http://www.nbp.org
 
If you have subscribed to Audible.com, the popular source for a wide variety
of audio content, and use a screen reader, it is certain you have
experienced some frustrations navigating its information packed web pages.
During this week's Accessible World Tek Talk event Anna Dresner, acclaimed
author of several technology books and editor of numerous publications,
will provide the basic steps to minimize, if not eliminate altogether, many
problem areas.
 
Anna will provide a comprehensive overview of the content of Audible.com, ,
the various account options available, how to set up then manage the, and
how to take advantage of the discounts on mp3 players. She will then discuss
in detail Searching for a book, Browsing categories, Playing samples, Adding
to wish list, Adding to shopping cart, including how credits are handled,
Finding and downloading programs in the library, and Controlling wish list
Using podcasts.
 
As the presentation concludes, Anna will discuss how to listen to the
downloaded books. This will include using Audible Manager to transfer books
to the Audible Player for reading on the PC,the Olympus, BookPort
BookCourier and/or iPod.
 
You and all your friends will not want to miss this unique opportunity to
learn all about Audible.com: "Audio Books That Speak To You Wherever You
Go!"
 
: Date: Monday, April 9, 2007
 
Time: 5:00 p.m. Pacific, 6:00 p.m. Mountain, 7:00 p.m. Central, 8:00 p.m.
Eastern and Tuesday 00:00 GMT.
 
Where: Tek Talk Online Conference Room
 
Since we are now using the new Talking Communities conferencing software, we
urge you to plan to arrive well in advance of the start time. Go to our
website at:
 
http://www.accessibleworld.org http://www.accessibleworld.org
 
Select the Tek Talk Room.
 
If this is the first time you have entered our new rooms, you will need to
install and then run the Talkcom software. It is very small and safe to
install on your computer.
 
Then return to the sign-in screen and select the Enter Room button. Enter
your first and last name, tab to the log in button, and press Enter. No
password is required.
 
Tell all your friends to join us. There is plenty of room for everyone.
 
Archives of all training events and sign up information for the two Tek Talk
mailing lists are available at:
http://www.accessibleworld.org http://www.accessibleworld.org
.
 
 


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