I have made it to sunny California the night before the conference - very exciting!  Two things are on my mind.  The first is to find my dear friend Jayne Cravens who I don't get to see much of since she moved to Germany...but she will be here at the conference - yay! 

 And the other very exciting thing is that I have had some great exchanges with people in anticipation of the sessions - and specifically the idea of getting some input and brainstorming around the issue of disability access to these new technologies.

A volunteer for Knowbility, the org I represent, has sent a number of copies of the open source screenreading software that he developed as his senior project as a University of Texas engineering student.  Most screenreading software costs thousands of dollars and so most of us don't get to play with it often (although you can download a demo version of JAWS )

But this is a fully functional screenreader that doesn't shut down after 40 minutes. (The truth is that 40 minutes of most screenreader's mechanical voice is plenty) But, if you are interested in this brand new, open source version, drop me a line, we can meet up in the next two days and I'll get you a copy of Charles Chin's free screenreading software.