Accessible World

On Monday,March first, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard time, Tek Talk presents An interview with Joel Snyder, Director of American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Project.

Larry Skutchan introduces the latest generation Digital Talking Book player and Recorder, Book Port Plus from American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
He explains that the combination of advanced hardware and innovative firmware combine to make this portable device an essential tool to nearly any student, professional, or even the casual DTB reader.
The presentation demonstrates playback and navigation of titles from NLS, RFBD, and bookshare.org and highlights the features that distinguish this device from the rest of the portable players including the following:

Radio Waves Topic For March: Old Time Radio For Dummies
With modern radio being what it is, many take refuge in radio from the past. But many Radio Waves participants (and that includes your moderator) are not familiar with the world of OTR. It's time for the golden age of radio enthusiasts to enlighten the uninitiated.

March’s book is The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan, late 19th
century/early 20th century India RC and DB 68367
The novel concerns a young woman in India who marries very young and is widowed nearly
as young. She is required by her Brahman birth to shave off her hair and live isolated.
She chooses to go against tradirion to live on her own with her children. The book
covers the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century. It’s writing style will
be different for most American readers, shifting as it does from presnt to past tense
and back again.

Accessible World Special Program Series
It's been historically referred to as "the Noble Experiment." Officially it was called a prohibition against the sale, manufacture and transportation of intoxicating liquors. The accompanying legislation was called the Volstead Act. Prohibition went into effect on January 16th, 1920 and ended on December 5th, 1933 amidst The Great Depression.