Celebrating the 2024 AFB Leadership Conference

Barbie® announced its first blind Barbie Fashionista doll, created and designed to help more children find a doll that represents them and inspires all children to tell more stories through play. Barbie partnered with AFB to ensure all details accurately depict an individual with blindness or low vision.

In 2024, AFB honored filmmaker Shawn Levy, actor Marilee Talkington, and Lucasfilm for their dedication to promoting inclusion in media for people with disabilities. The event ended with a screening of AFB’s documentary, Possibilities, which included a surprise introduction from past award recipient Stevie Wonder.

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Following the Barriers to Digital Inclusion Survey released in April 2023, AFB conducted a second study, Barriers to Digital Inclusion 2, to take a more in-depth look at blind and low-vision people’s digital experiences in real time.

In response to AFB’s study last year on the challenges job seekers who are blind or have low vision face toward closing the opportunity gap, our Public Policy & Research Institute has prepared a helpful toolkit for HR professionals and hiring managers.

AFB’s Public Policy and Research Institute (PPRI) has prepared a wide range of research summaries and fact sheets intended to convey AFB’s research to a broad audience. These helpful tools are intended to further knowledge on issues impacting people who are blind through spotlighting AFB’s extensive research over the years.

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