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In This Issue

… is not yet fully accessible. This is disappointing and discouraging, especially considering the length of time this … Thanks to smartphones, we have a bevy of options at our fingertips to learn of the latest happenings. Since news stories by their nature are mostly text-based, many apps …
AccessWorld May 2014

Chapter XXIII

… to my happiness! Some of them would be found written in our literature and dear to the hearts of many, while others … sweetened and ennobled by it. Those are red-letter days in our lives when we meet people who thrill us like a fine … I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying and doing …

Inform & Connect Season 2: Gabby Mendonca, Student and Blindness Advocate

… to know they are not alone. Gabby thrives on sharing her journey as a college student, navigating her passion … Gabby says. “We all have the ability to create and own our dreams.” “Gabby is a brilliant and passionate student … about my experiences with blindness and talking about my stories and sharing those moments with people that I also …

AFB Town Hall #3: Education Across the Lifespan

… one of the adaptations Dr. Wild has come out with to show our students what COVID-19 is all about. And then we have a … So, those were American Council of the Blind, AER, which is our professional organization, AFB, Aira, American Printing … data as well as the teacher data. And I will say that the stories that the families told really resonated with me. …

The AFB Leadership Conference with FAER: Sunburned, Well-Fed, and Educated

… it was hard to get back behind my desk after returning from our beautiful location at the Tradewinds Island Resort. I … : "The session really highlighted what is happening with our professional preparation programs. I am encouraged by … uses water propulsion to launch participants up to three stories into the air), we still had a great time at the …
Joe Strechay

'Tis the Season

… Guide: From Free to Extravagant, Something for Everyone on Your List , and Janet Ingber provided information on options … and mortar shopping in her article, Holiday Shopping with Your iOS Device . In this issue, Janet also offers even more holiday gift ideas for the people on your list who experience vision loss. There is still time to …
AccessWorld December 2015

Editor's Page: AccessWorld Celebrates the Birthday of Louis Braille

… the birthday of Louis Braille on January 4th with our annual braille-focused issue. If you would like to learn more about Braille or refresh yourself on his story, please visit our online Braille Museum . When I was young, I learned …
Aaron Preece
AccessWorld January 2021

Nothing 'Wimpy' About Including Customers with Vision Loss

… accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. Our dollars work just as well as any other person's! The … and great moral. Remember, my dollar is worth the same as yours! …
Joe Strechay

CSUN 2015 Exhibit Hall: 3D Printing Is Coming to People Who Are Blind

… for this month's lessons. American Thermoform , one of our long-established companies selling braille and tactile resources (braille embossers, swell-paper technology, and so …
Crista Earl

Helen Keller's First Experience of the Ocean

… as a whiff of salt air; but I had read in a big book called Our World a description of the ocean which filled me with … From "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, 1903 Image: Courtesy of the Perkins School for the Blind Recommended …
Helen Selsdon

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