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What’s Coming in Leasey Version 11.

Last year was an excellent one for Leasey. Many powerful new features were introduced, workflows were refined, and accessibility remained at the heart of everything we built. Now it’s time to look ahead to 2026 and the first public release of Leasey Version 11. This upcoming version takes some major steps forward — expanding how […]

Hartgen Consultancy Trials the Innosearch Shopping Platform!

The Innosearch shopping platform, accessible from this page, is becoming widely used by blind people. It boasts access to thousands of stores in several countries including the US and UK. It is a complete, start-to-finish experience where you can browse, shop, and check out without ever leaving the site. Hartgen Consultancy now has a store […]

ChatGPT5 Will Soon Come to Leasey!

As of this moment, anyone using the specially designed interface for Leasey is working with ChatGPT4. We have held back on implementing ChatGPT5 for some time, primarily because until very recently, it was not possible for the method of access Leasey uses with ChatGPT to search the web. It could only query data up to […]

Working with Leasey and JAWS 2026.

Introduction. JAWS version 2026 is now available. This blog post gives useful information about upgrading to this new version and how to install Leasey into it in the correct way. Should I Upgrade JAWS to version 2026? Certainly yes. It is my view that this version is a significant improvement over 2025 in many areas […]

The Future of the WhatsApp Scripts for JAWS.

Hi to all You will know from past discussions that a new web-based version of the WhatsApp application was in production. WhatsApp is an application on which many of us have come to rely upon for keeping in touch, participating in groups and for work purposes in some cases. While it was accessible, I created […]

Catching Up With JAWS Chapter 5!

Introduction. Now is your chance to get some high quality training on some of the latest features within the screen-reader JAWS for Windows which have been introduced over the past three years. This follows on from our previous popular training courses on this subject. These training courses are still popular and people are purchasing the […]

Zoom Scripts: Time For a Welcome Change.

It seems incredible but the JAWS scripts for Zoom have been available now for seven years; they were first released in 2019, before the Pandemic when the conferencing and meetings app became very widely used. What’s more incredible is that the intention of build 1of the scripts was to stop JAWS announcing key information when […]

Hartgen Consultancy’s Immediate Future

Given this blog post is going to be distributed to multiple Email lists, it is likely some people will read it a number of times for which I apologise. I will also try to make it not too personal, but it is important that our loyal customers understand what is happening. Four weeks ago, I […]

Zoom Windows Desktop Client: Upgrading to 64 Bit.

A few enquiries have been received due to a message from Zoom. When you visit the Download page of their web site, it states that the 32 bit version of the Zoom desktop client is to be discontinued and you should upgrade to the 64 bit release before the end of the year. There is […]