November 2001 • Volume 2 • Number 6

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Jim Fruchterman, founder of Arkenstone and Benetech, talks about inventing the first PC-based system for reading print aloud, of merging with Freedom Scientific, and of founding Bookshare to swap scanned books over the Internet.

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In This Issue

Editor’s Page—Jay Leventhal—print edition page 3

Organize Your Life: A Review of Voice Mate—Deborah Kendrick and Jay Leventhal—print edition page 5
A Product Evaluation of Parrot SA’s Voice Mate, a Personal Digital Assistant

Choosing a Screen Magnifier—Kevin Dusling and Mark Uslan—print edition page 12
A Comparison of Ai Squared’s ZoomText Xtra 7.06 and Freedom Scientific’s MAGic 8.0

Raising the Bar: An Overview of the ID Mate—Jay Leventhal and Koert Wehberg—print edition page 21
A Product Evaluation of Envision America’s Talking Bar Code Identifier

Fruchterman’s Fantasy Becomes Reality—Deborah Kendrick—print edition page 25
An Interview with Jim Fruchterman, founder of Arkenstone and Benetech

How Shall I Scan? Mainstream Versus Adapted Products —Debbie Cook—print edition page 31
A Comparison of Freedom Scientific’s OPENBook, Lernout & Hauspie’s Kurzweil 1000, and ScanSoft’s OmniPage Pro—Optical Character Recognition Scanners

2001: A Technology Odyssey—Jay Leventhal—print edition page 39
A Lively Summation of the Newest Assistive Technology Conference

News—print edition page 42

Calendar—print edition page 46

Entire Issue

Editor in Chief	Jay D. Leventhal
Senior Contributing Editor	Paul Schroeder
Contributing Editors	Crista L. Earl Deborah Kendrick Mark M. Uslan
Managing Editor	Sharon Shively
Marketing Manager	Sharon Baker-Harris

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