Introducing Accessible Auphonic: Better Audio, Made Easier for Screen Reader Users.
Audio is extraordinarily important to many blind people. It may be how we preserve a family memory, publish a podcast, teach a lesson, record an interview, produce a spoken-word programme, share music or capture an event we want to experience again. Making the recording is only the beginning. One speaker may be considerably quieter than […]
Introducing PresentAble: A New Way for Blind People to Create, Check and Understand PowerPoint Presentations.
There are some areas of computing where blind people have made enormous progress. We can write documents, manage email, browse the web, edit audio, communicate across social media, use artificial intelligence, manage complex information and work with many professional applications more independently than ever before. But presentations have always been different. A presentation is not […]
Catching Up With Leasey Series 2.
The practical training course for making the most of Leasey 11.5. Leasey has had an extraordinary year. In 2025, we celebrated Leasey's tenth birthday with Catching Up with Leasey Series 1, a training course designed to help users get to grips with the powerful features introduced in Leasey 10. That course was created because Leasey […]
What’s New in Leasey 11.5: The September Update, Part 2.
Release date: 1 September 2026. In the first post about the September update, we looked at the rewritten Leasey Texts application, the new Clipboard History feature and the many improvements to Leasey Media Centre. This second post continues the tour. As before, this is not a complete list of every change. The documentation will provide […]
What’s New in Leasey 11.5: The September Update, Part 1.
Release date: 1 September 2026. Before we talk about the new features, we want to say a very sincere thank you. The response to Leasey 11.5 has been quite extraordinary. We knew that the Summer update contained a large amount of work, but we could not have predicted the level of enthusiasm and practical feedback […]
The Ultimate Guide to StationPlaylist with JAWS for Windows
You may have a collection of music and an idea for a radio programme, but feel uncertain about how to bring the two together. Perhaps you have been invited to record a show for a station from home, or already present regularly and would like to understand more of the software you use. The Ultimate […]
Chrome Plated Revisited: Using Google Chrome with JAWS for Windows
Fast, flexible and ready for the modern web. Google Chrome is one of the most widely used web browsers in the world. It is used for shopping, banking, email, education, social media, streaming, research, work portals, online meetings, cloud services, document editing and almost every other kind of web-based task. Many services are designed and […]
Leasey 11.5 In Depth Part 12. Little Things Mean a Lot
We have reached the final post in this detailed Leasey 11.5 series. Over the past posts, we have looked closely at individual features. Each of those deserved its own space. But a major update is not only made from the features which can easily carry a whole blog post. Sometimes the smaller things matter just […]
Leasey 11.5 In Depth Part 11. LeaseyConnect
There are only two posts left in this detailed Leasey 11.5 series. We have already covered some of the largest and most ambitious parts of the update. LeaseySocial, LeaseyMedia Centre, LeaseyWord, LeaseyNotes, LeaseyDiary, Leasey File Manager and the other features we have explored are all substantial in their own ways. This time, we return to […]
Leasey 11.5 In Depth Part 10. Leasey Start Menu and Leasey Main Menu
In this series of detailed posts about Leasey 11.5, we have looked at some very large features. We have looked at LeaseyWord, LeaseyMedia Centre, LeaseySocial, Leasey File Manager, LeaseyNotes, Leasey Database Manager, LeaseyCuts, LeaseyDiary and Talk to ChatGPT. Each of those features has its own identity. Each one helps with a particular kind of work. […]