Sound Prints – May 14, 2017
Sound Prints 15th anniversary – a look back; the Kentucky School for the Blind celebrates 175 years; Countdown to 175 Essay Contest winners
Building Better Tomorrows Today for Kentuckians with Vision Loss
Sound Prints podcast by KCB
Sound Prints 15th anniversary – a look back; the Kentucky School for the Blind celebrates 175 years; Countdown to 175 Essay Contest winners
Lyft guide dog policy; more visual impairment among children; successful fundraiser from the Alabama Council of the Blind; more accessibility for airline passengers; VFO acquires another company
Imagine Blind Players Theater Troupe with Darren Harbour; new ways to listen to ACB Radio with Jeff Bishop; tips for raising money for the 2017 ACB Walk and the Kentucky e-Racers team
Continuing saga of accessible online audio and video from University of California Berkeley; interview with Allison Flanagan, retiring Director of Kentucky Office for the Blind; new scholarships, VFO tech sessions at the 2017 ACB convention, runner uses technology as a guide in Boston Marathon, and proposed law in Texas related to service and guide dogs
Cooking with Bill Deatherage, new principal at KSB, personnel changes at OFB and OVR, visually impaired runners in the Boston Marathon, web inaccessibility with Vint Cerf and more
Articles and announcements from around ACB; 175th anniversary Founders’ Day dinner at the Kentucky School for the Blind; Seeing Eye puppies at the Newark airport, a special project at the Kentucky School for the Blind, and an art exhibit of paintings by artists with low vision
Events at the American Printing House for the Blind museum; free eye screenings for service and guide dogs; cooking with the senses; a new low vision chapter in KCB
Blind and low vision customers can’t order food at new high-tech restaurants; court cases against inaccessible high-tech restaurant and vending machines; Supreme Court decision helps disabled students; technology industry for the disabled expected to mushroom in the coming years
resources for accessible on-line books, including Kindle and Kindle app; American Printing House for the Blind Braille Reader’s Theater; UC Berkeley decides to remove free video and audio from iTunes U rather than make files accessible
Cooking with an air fryer; legislation and advocacy in 2017; First-timer and Leadership Fellows Awards available for the 2017 ACB Conference and Convention in Reno