All Episodes

Vispero Connect: June 2026 — Product Updates, Agentic AI, And the Corporate Side Of Accessibility

FSCast #269. On guide dogs, education, and the value of relationships

FSCast #268. Vispero's CSUN Recap, And a Glimpse Of What's Coming

FSCast #267. Title II readiness, CSUN plans, And focusing On What Really Matters

FSCast #266. On reading, mentorship and Braille Advocacy

FSCast #265. On hosting a radio show, reading documents and developing your professional skills

FSCast #264. Discovering an unfamiliar territory with Page Explorer, and a chat with Andrés felipe Pulgarín from Colombia

FSCast #263. Introducing the 2026 software updates, and a potential opportunity to start your own business

FSCast #262. Enhancing Web Accessibility With JAWS Tools, And a Visit With Kristina Misiunaite

FSCast #261. An in-depth look at multiline Braille support in JAWS, and an AI user survey by the AFB

FSCast #260. Convention Special, And a Bit Of AI

FSCast #259. Multiline Braille; visual tables; and a cruise in Antarctica

FSCast #258: Product News and Updates; A Quick Look at a Talking Kiosk; and a Visit with Nolan Crabb

FSCast #257. Taming JAWS On the Web, an introduction to Innosearch, and more stories and memories from Ted Henter

FSCast #256. CSUN 2025 impressions, and a visit with Ted Henter

FSCast #255. Talking Web Accessibility And Usability, And a Story Of a Young Blind Entrepreneur

FSCast #254. Celebrating Braille, attending a Zoom meeting and enjoying subtitles on YouTube

FSCast #253. Product updates, trainer tips from the pro, and TPGI partnership with AIRA

FSCast #252: The Next Big Thing 2024 Final

FSCast #251. Highlights of FSOpenLine For November 2024

FSCast #250. On Sports, Paralympics And Access Technology

FSCast 249. Product updates, private Betas and a visit with Eric Damery

FSCast 248, Back to School: Prizes, Math And More

FSCast 247, An Interview With Oleg Shevkun, and Mohammed Laachir Discusses Our New AI Features

FSCast246, a visit with Dr. Tim Cordes, plus Crystal Jones talks about Microsoft's Disability Answer Desk

FSCast 245, a demo of PictureSmart chat, all about NLS, and a visit with Gordon Legge

FSCast 244, a visit with Ana González Arean, plus Nicky Gillies and Cathy Miller from the Louisiana DeafBlind project

FSCast 243, archive of the March 2024 FSOpenLine

FSCast 242, a demo of PictureSmart AI, and a visit with Anil Lewis

FSCast 241, all about accessible gaming

FSCast 240, a visit with Doug Geoffray, and a demo of the Bitwarden password manager

FSCast 239, archive of the November 2023 FSOpenLine

FSCast 238, archive of the Next Big Thing finale

FSCast 237, a visit with Pete Torpey, plus all about Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students

FSCast 236, a visit with Catherine Getchell, plus a focus on APH Career Connect

FSCast 235, archive of the August 2023 FSOpenLine

FSCast 234, a Demo of JAWS Face In View, and an interview with Billy Henry of the Northwest Association for Blind Athletes

FSCast 233, Andrew Leland's new book "The Country of the Blind," plus accessible manufacturing at The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.

FSCast 232, a demo of the new Message Center, and a visit with JAWS developer Brett Lewis

FSCast 231, archive of the May 2023 FSOpenLine

FSCast 230, Major Scotty Smiley discusses his life, and Dr. Michele McDonnall with results of the AT In The Workplace study

FSCast 229,An Interview with Mandy Van Cleave, an overview of Text Viewer, and how to write compelling bug reports

FSCast 228, An Interview with Donovan Tildesley, and an overview of using Visual Studio Code

FSCast 227, archive of the February 2023 FSOpenLine

FSCast 226, Software developer Andre Polykanine, plus Sasha Hordiiko & Igor Kushnir from the Ukrainian Association of the Blind

FSCast 225, Bill McCann of Dancing Dots, & Campbell Rutherford, a former Student Of The Month

FSCast 224, archive of the November 2022 FSOpenLine

FSCast 223, Kim Charlson & Thomas Reid discuss the 2022 Audio Description Awards

FSCast 222, A demo of how to customize notifications using regular expressions, and Leona Godin discusses her book There Plant Eyes

FSCast 221, Christine Ha talks about her career as a blind chef, and Judy Dixon discusses her book "Formatting Documents For Appearance"

FSCast 220, Archive of the August 2022 FSOpenLine

FSCast 219, Ryan Jones previews our 2023 software public betas, and we meet Svetlana, Freedom Scientific's July Student Of The Month

FSCast 218, Eric Damery shares stories about his 28 year career advocating for our software

FSCast 217, archive of the June 2022 FSOpenLine

FSCast 216, A Demo of the JAWS Notification History Manager, and a visit with Richard Oehm

FSCast 215, Joe Stephen, long time JAWS developer, and Toby Willis, Senior Product Manager for Inclusive Travel at Expedia

FSCast 214, Adrian Amandi discusses the upcoming National Coding Symposium, and a visit with Gary O'Donoghue, Chief North America Political Correspondent for BBC News

FSCast 213, Dr. Robert Englebretson discusses his ongoing research about how Braille is taught

FSCast 212, archive of the February 2022 FSOpenLine

FSCast 211, Chancey Fleet talks training workshops offered by the New York Public Library, and an intro to working at the Windows Command Prompt

FSCast 210, Marine Biologist Maureen Hayden, plus Independence Science making experiments accessible

FSCast 209, Ryan Jones' Christmas light show, and international blindness advocate Pedro Zurita

FSCast 208, archive of December 2021 FSOpenLine

FSCast 207, What's new in Windows 11, Cassandra McNabb McKinney interview

FSCast 206, Accessible McDonald's order kiosks

FSCast 205, More with Eric Damery about new product features, and a visit with stenographer Daniele Casarola

FSCast 204 - Archive of FSOpenLine, August 2021

FSCast 203, Eric Damery with news about new 2022 product features, and a visit with Cory Jackson

FSCast 202, Financial Educator Chris Peterson, Plus Emoji Accessibility with Garreth Tigwell and Benjamin Gorman

FSCast 201, Judy Dixon discusses her new book about audio description, and a visit with blind math professor Betsey Doane

FSCast 200, archive of the May 2021 FSOpenLine

FSCast 199, Glen Gordon's speech at National Coding Symposium, and Spanish Localizer Rocio Casati

FSCast 198, how GLAS Education developed an accessible astronomy curriculum, and a visit with GPS pioneer Mike May

FSCast 197, Manuel Cortez, creator of TWBlue, and Michael Hudson, Director of accessibility Services at MSU

FSCast 196 - FSOpenLine, February 2021

FSCast 195, Civil rights activist Ever Lee Hairston, and O&M instructor Lil Deverell

FSCast 194, Braille Transcriber Matthew Horspool and Duxbury Software creator Joe Sullivan

FSCast 193, Student Of The Month Taylor Cox, and JAWS developer Mohammed Laachir

FsCast 192, archive of FSOpenLine from November 2020

FSCast 191, all about Computers For The Blind, and an interview with JAWS scripter Doug Lee

FSCast 190, Rachael Bradley Montgomery talks about accessible escape rooms, and Ed Potter tells the story of Playback Magazine

FSCast 189, A demonstration of new features in JAWS and Fusion 2021, and David Kingsbury's new book "When One Web Browser Is Not Enough"

FSCast 188, archive of the August 2020 FSOpenLine

FSCast 187 - Dan Clark, the long time voice of JAWS training, and Laura Wolk, the first blind woman to clerk for a Supreme Court Justice

FSCast 186, Blindness consultant Joe Strechay, a new Freedom Scientific Training podcast, and a demo of the JAWS feature to prevent speech cut off

FSCast 185, A profile of musician and longtime JAWS scripter Dave Leo Baker, Using Reaper for audio production, features in the June product updates, and U.S. summer product specials.

FSCast 184, archive of the May 2020 FSOpenLine

FSCast 183, using the SAS Graphics accelerator to listen to graphs and charts

FSCast 182, NFB president Mark Riccobono, and ACB president Dan Spoone on coping with COVID-19

FSCast 181, Freedom Scientific sessions at the CSUN technology conference, a power tip, and a discussion about the latest generation of ElBraille

FSCast 180, archive of the February 2020 FSOpenLine

FSCast 179, CSUN technology conference coming in March, product updates in early February, and Everything you wanted to know about the new Chromium based Microsoft Edge

FSCast 178 - A visit with Brian Hartgen, creator of J-Say, Leasey and other JAWS scripts

FSCast 177, archive of the November 2019 FSOpenLine

FSCast 176 - The 2020 versions of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion release at the end of October, a JAWS Power Tip, and things you might not know about our free product training.

FSCast 175, archive of the September 2019 FSOpenLine

FSCast 174 - Eric Damery previews the first JAWS 2020 public beta, and retired Superior Court Judge David Szumowski previews his new autobiography "Reach for More."

FSCast 173: Software updates Release August 6, John Gassman wins Disney's highest award, and a new book about formatting Word documents using a screen reader

FSCast 172, Archive of the June 2019 FSOpenLine

FSCast 171 - Product discounts at the U.S. summer shows, a JAWS byte, and news of the Freedom Scientific APH partnership

FSCast 170 - Product Specials for attendees of the July National Conventions for both NFB and ACB, What's new in April Software Updates, And News About American Blind Golf

FSCast 169 - Interviews from the 2019 CSUN Technology Conference

FSCast 168, archive of the March 2019 FSOpenLine

FSCast 167 - Podcast transcripts, CSUN technology conference history, and previews of features coming in the March updates of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion

FSCast 166 - Streamlined installation of Vocalizer Expressive voices, new sounds in Word and Outlook to indicate spelling errors, and the Freedom Scientific CSUN presentation schedule

FSCast 165 - A JAWS Byte from Beta Manager Rosemary Kleske, stories from director of Beyond Vision Loss Elly Du Pre, and the tenacity of Desert Storm veteran George Tice

FSCast 164 - Archive of December 2018 FSOpenLine

FSCast 163, New Hosts John and Larry Gassman Introduce themselves, Eric Damery discusses December Updates, and Gassmans chat with Curtis Chong, innovator and Accessible Technology pioneer

FSCast 162, Hal Knight with stories from his broadcast radio career, and Rob Santello talks ham radio accessibility

FSCast 161, archive of the October 2018 FSOpenLine

FSCast 160, what's new in JAWS 2019 beta 2, a demonstration of our new Home Annual licensing portal for US customers, and Jonathan Mosen says goodbye

FSCast 159, archive of the September 2018 FSOpenLine

FSCast 158, Eric Damery unveils JAWS 2019, Stuart Lawler talks Sight and Sounds expansion to Ireland

FSCast157, archive of the August 2018 FSOpenLine

FSCast 156, announcing FSOpenLine, JAWS support for Skype 8, scholarship winner Kenia Flores, and we here again from Cricket Bidleman

FSCast155, new software releases, listener comments, and an extended interview with Isaac Lidsky

FSCast154, convention information and specials, Sight Village Central and specials, Focus Blue scratchpad and book reader, and a chat with our partners at Nuance

FSCast 153 US national conventions, May software updates, listener feedback, Mark Nelson from Digital Apex, Douglas Gerry

FSCast 152, April 2018 JAWS Update, Miguel Abdo

FSCast Episode 151 - March 2018 JAWS Update, Jack Mendez from the Louisiana Center for the Blind

FSCast Episode 150 - Eric Damery talks about the JAWS February 2018 update, ZoomText 2018 and Fusion 2018

FSCast Episode 149 - CSUN 2018 sessions, hours and prizes. Group Training offerings. Jonathan Mosen speaks with Jamie Teh of Mozilla about making Firefox compatible with JAWS

FSCast Episode 148 - Speech and Sound Scheme in JAWS, Jeanne Hink and Carli Metze from Keystone Blind Association talk about employment options

FSCast Episode 147 - Renew Software Maintenance Agreement online, New software releases - JAWS, ZoomText and MAGic, new features in JAWS 2018, Chad Hays talks about how Freedom Scientific products helped him buy family business

FSCast Episode 146 - Special PEARL pricing, Rachel Flowers produced her latest album with JAWS, justice themed interviews

FSCast Episode 145 - Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

FSCast Episode 144 - Software News, Michael Arbitman - a ZoomText user who hunts software vulnerabilities

FSCast Episode 143 - Eric Damery and Jonathan Mosen describe and demonstrate what's new in JAWS 2018.

FSCast Episode 142 - Winners of SMA upgrade competition, new generation Focus 40 Blue refreshable Braille display, support for Microsoft Edge in JAWS and in a JAWS byte, we revisit the key labels feature

FSCast Episode 141 - Win one of 3 free upgrades, specials available at summer shows, and a complete demonstration of ElBraille 14

FSCast Episode 140 - New visual tracking feature for JAWS, ZoomText Fusion is unveiled

FSCast Episode 139 - JAWS 18 and Microsoft Edge working together, Office 365, Windows Insider Program, JAWS Byte demonstrating Touch Cursor

FSCast Episode 138 - Essential updates to JAWS, MAGic and ZoomText required for Windows 10 Creators update, JAWS Byte on key labels and a replay of Eric Damery's CSUN presentation

FSCast Episode 137 - 2017 CSUN, Glen Gordon discusses Microsoft Edge support in VFO Products and Ron Miller discusses next generation ElBraille, the notetaker powered by JAWS

FSCast Episode 136 - Bill McCann of Dancing Dots, Andrew Zeman's special day

FSCast Episode 135 - 10 years of FSCast, Andrew Zeman gets his wish from Make a Wish Foundation, Ryan Jones talks about his 10,000 light Christmas display

FSCast Episode 134 - Export JAWS 18 settings, two entrepreneurs who run their business with JAWS

FSCast Episode 133 - JAWS 18 - new Vocalizer Expressive voices, Jen Armbruster - US Goalball seven time paralympian

FSCast Episode 132 - Eric Damery and Jonathan Mosen continue their discussion about JAWS 18

FSCast Episode 131 - Eric Damery discusses new JAWS 18 features

FSCast Episode 130 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Tom Tiernan, the new CEO of VFO

FSCast Episode 129 - Microsoft Mail Accessibility, New rules on local and state website accessibility

FSCast Episode 128 - Incredible summer conference pricing from VFO, MathML, National Organization of Parents of Blind Children

FSCast Episode 127 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with David Wu

FSCast Episode 126 - US summer convention offers, Maarten Bosch - Chief Commercial Officer of VFO Group, Brian Hargen talks about J-Say, J-Dictate and more

FSCast Episode 125 - Larry Skutchan from APH, Dennis Godin from Technical Support

FSCast Episode 124 - Using JAWS Tandem to provide technical support, Seeing Eye's 8th online auction and "The blind history lady"

FSCast Episode 123 - Student editions of JAWS and MAGic; ElBraille; JAWS bytes; Windows 10 virtual desktops

FSCast Episode 122 - FSCast alerts, CSUN preview and OpenBook update

FSCast Episode 121 - JAWS keeps you up to date with FSCast, CSUN 2016, Bill Kilroy - Regional Sales Director

FSCast Episode 120 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Ryan Jones

FSCast Episode 119 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Jim Ellsworth

FSCast Episode 118 - Blind Joe from "The Voice"; Brian Hartgen discusses the latest version of Leasey

FSCast Episode 117 - Jonathan Mosen and John Blake discuss the merger of Freedom Scientific and Optelec

FSCast Episode 116 - George Calvert who recently became blind, our Travel Log section takes you to Seattle and Finland, JAWS Byte demonstrating how to set up voice profiles

FSCast Episode 115 - JAWS 17 Smart Navigation, Dr. Craig Moore talks to Jonathan Mosen about his work at NASA on the new space launch system rocket and Ashleigh Piccinino on changing the forms mode sound in JAWS

FSCast Episode 114 - JAWS 17 new features: Part 2, MAGic 13 update

FSCast Episode 113 - JAWS 17 new features: Part 1

FSCast Episode 112 - Matt Ater explains how Freedom Scientific and IBM make the world a more accessible place. Jonathan speaks with Maribel Steel.

FSCast Episode 111 - 2015 Post-convention roundup

FSCast Episode 110 - 2015 Convention Specials

FSCast Episode 109 - Summer convention specials, Hartgen Consultancy specials, what to expect with Windows 10 and finally Dr Denise Robinson explains why it is vital to be JAWS ready

FSCast Episode 108 - Special pricing at NFB convention, Jonathan Mosen speaks with Mark Riccobono, President of NFB and Robin Drodge, a Canadian JAWS user who put Freedom Scientific on his family holiday plans.

FSCast Episode 107 - Listener Comments, Keyboard Support for Facebook with version 16 of JAWS, Brian Hartgen demonstrates J-Dictate and introduces the latest version of Leasey software

FSCast Episode 106 - Latest news, listener comments, JAWS for Windows anniversary video, Interview with Joe Stephen

FSCast Episode 105 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Ted Henter, who founded Henter-Joyce and created JAWS: Part 2

FSCast Episode 104 - Jonathan Mosen speaks with Ted Henter, who founded Henter-Joyce and created JAWS: Part 1

FSCast Episode 103 - CSUN Summary, JAWS for Windows 20th anniversary, Nas Campanella, Larry and John Gassman

FSCast Episode 102 - JAWS for Windows 20th anniversary video, Freedom Scientific at the ATIA and CSUN conferences, make the most of Freedom Scientific Technical Support and Kelly Ford tells us about the Microsoft Accessibility Answer Desk

FSCast Episode 101 - 20th anniversary of JAWS for Windows, Braille selection feature, Windows tablets running JAWS 16 and iTunes 12 with JAWS

FSCast Episode 100 - Reflections on FSCast, listener comments and Brian Hartgen joins us to talk about Leasey

FSCast Episode 99 - Listener Feedback, Math ML and JAWS Bytes

FSCast Episode 98 - JAWS Timed License, Tablet Computing

FSCast Episode 97 - More New Features in JAWS 16

FSCast Episode 96 - JAWS 16 Reads Inaccessible PDF

FSCast Episode 95 - JAWS 16 Command Search

FSCast Episode 94 - JAWS 16 New Editions

FSCast Episode 93 - MAGic 13, Ability Net, Flexible Web

FSCast Episode 92, July 2014

FSCast Episode 91, June 2014

FSCast Episode 90, May 2014

FSCast Episode 89, April 2014

FSCast Episode 88, March 2014

FSCast Episode 87, February 2014

FSCast Episode 86, January 2014

FSCast Episode 85, December 2013

FSCast Episode 84, November 2013

FSCast Episode 83, October 2013

FSCast Episode 82, September 2013

FSCast Episode 81, August 2013

FSCast Episode 80, July 2013

FSCast Episode 79, June 2013

FSCast Episode 78, May 2013

FSCast Episode 77, April 2013

FSCast Episode 76, March 2013

FSCast Episode 75, February 2013

FSCast Episode 74, January 2013

FSCast Episode 73, December 2012

FSCast Episode 72, November 2012

FSCast Episode 71, October 2012

FSCast Episode 70, September 2012

FSCast Episode 69, August 2012

FSCast Episode 68, July 2012

FSCast Episode 67, June 2012

FSCast Episode 66, May 2012

FSCast Episode 65, April 2012

FSCast Episode 64, March 2012

FSCast Episode 63, February 2012

FSCast Episode 62, January 2012

FSCast Episode 61, December 2011

FSCast Episode 60, November 2011

FSCast Episode 59, October 2011

FSCast Episode 58, September 2011

FSCast Episode 57, August 2011

FSCast Episode 56, July 2011

FSCast Episode 55, June 2011

FSCast Episode 54, May 2011

FSCast Episode 53, April 2011

FSCast Episode 52, March 2011

FSCast Episode 51, February 2011

FSCast Episode 50, January 2011

FSCast Episode 49, December 2010

FSCast Episode 48, November 2010

FSCast Episode 47, October 2010

FSCast Episode 46, September 2010

FSCast Episode 45, August 2010

FSCast Episode 44, July 2010

FSCast Episode 43, June 2010

FSCast Episode 42, May 2010

FSCast Episode 41, April 2010

FSCast Episode 40, March 2010

FSCast Episode 39, February 2010

FSCast Episode 38, January 2010

FSCast Episode 37, December 2009

FSCast Episode 36, November 2009

FSCast Episode 35, October 2009

FSCast Episode 34, September 2009

FSCast Episode 33, August 2009

FSCast Episode 32, July 2009

FSCast Episode 31, June 2009

FSCast Episode 30, May 2009

FSCast Episode 29, April 2009

FSCast Episode 28, March 2009

FSCast Episode 27, February 2009

FSCast Episode 26, January 2009

FSCast Episode 25, December 2008

FSCast Episode 24, November 2008

FSCast Episode 23, October 2008

FSCast Episode 22, September 2008

FSCast Episode 21, August 2008

FSCast Episode 20, July 2008

FSCast Episode 19, June 2008

FSCast Episode 18, May 2008

FSCast Episode 17, April 2008

FSCast Episode 16, March 2008

FSCast Episode 15, February 2008

FSCast Episode 14, January 2008

FSCast Episode 13, December 2007

FSCast Episode 12, November 2007

FSCast Episode 11, October 2007

FSCast Episode 10, September 2007

FSCast Episode 9, August 2007

FSCast Episode 8, July 2007

FSCast Episode 7, June 2007

FSCast Episode 6, May 2007

FSCast Episode 5, April 2007

FSCast Episode 4, March 2007

FSCast Episode 3, February 2007

FSCast Episode 2, January 2007