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My First Workshop - Part 1
I have finally organised my first singing workshop! Yay! But, I want to be sure that I am not going to lose money.So my "Inner Excel Geek" created a spreadsheet (obviously - that's what all all good geeks do, isn't it?) to check my figures and to use next time. I was very happy with it. The spreadsheet, helped me work out what was a reasonable price to charge for an early-bird ticket and how many tickets I had to sell to know that I could run the workshop and not lose money. It also allowed my t…
Google Local Business Listing
As a local business owner you wear many hats and you have countless responsibilities. Consequently you’re not always able to follow-up on opportunities that could advance your business. It is the nature of running a business.
Once an awhile an opportunity comes along that you absolutely should not pass up. In this case it is a business listing on both Google and Yahoo local. Not only can it generate targeted traffic in your area, but the listing is FREE. And here is another reason why you need to…
Once an awhile an opportunity comes along that you absolutely should not pass up. In this case it is a business listing on both Google and Yahoo local. Not only can it generate targeted traffic in your area, but the listing is FREE. And here is another reason why you need to…
Festive Singing and Drumming
I'm very excited to share that I am running a Festive Singing and Drumming Workshop on the afternoon of Saturday, 9th December, in the lovely setting of Insole Court, Llandaff.
Sometimes we'll just sing, sometimes we'll add a bit of hand-drumming so bring a djembe or a bougarabou if you've got one.
Prices
The Early Bird Price is £12.00. When these are all gone, the price goes up to £17.00. Grab yours now! You'll be paying via "Stripe" so your details will be very secure, and you won't be pay…StickyKeys
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Jaws 10, Outlook 2007, inbox not reading - problem fixed
With 2 clients recently I experienced a very strange problem which made me tear my hair out and nearly left me bald!
Problem
In Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Jaws 10 (build 1154), the inbox list was not reading at all. Even the Jaws cursor wouldn't recognize text. Hmm, i thought. In the verbosity settings I turned on the setting to use MSAA for attachments. Lo and behold, Jaws did pick up those messages that had an attachment - saying "attachment" very nicely
Phew!
Problem
In Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Jaws 10 (build 1154), the inbox list was not reading at all. Even the Jaws cursor wouldn't recognize text. Hmm, i thought. In the verbosity settings I turned on the setting to use MSAA for attachments. Lo and behold, Jaws did pick up those messages that had an attachment - saying "attachment" very nicely
Phew!
Accessibility and the Kindle Fire HD
Accessibility for Kindle Fire
For an alternative way of reading books, the Kindle Fire is an interesting one. Amazon have built in accessibility features into the Kindle Fire HD and the Kindle Fire HDX.New Kindle Fire will be accessible! | The Chicago Dream
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Many rears ago I did a review of the kindle and I complained that it wasn't accessible. I'm actually quite happy that I'm eating my own words when I have said that "I doubt Ama…
Apple's iOS 7 and accessibility
Apple iOS 7 and Accessibility
I updated my iPad to iOS 7 at the weekend and there are a couple of extra elements on the Accessibility. I'm particuarly interested in VoiceOver which is the screen reader part that is useful to blind and partially sighted people. In particular I like- the larger cursor for VoiceOver for those with some sight;
- the facility to use handwriting to unlock the front screen so you aren't announcing you passcode to the worls;
- you can use handwriting to input text gen…
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