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FOCUS on AFB: Fall 2022

… Her Husband Leave a Lasting Legacy An $8 million planned gift from Lou and Noah Alonso provides significant support … date and is expecting $8 million total, thanks to a planned gift from their estate – a generous donation befitting the … the development of the Michigan Special Education Outcomes Guide and Assessments: Visual Impairment, and a member of …

"Action Is Our Watchword"

… books, the only remaining recourse was to seek voluntary gifts for this purpose. The year 1927, as it happened, was … president of United Cigar Stores when he made his initial gift of 100 radios in 1931. In the course of the next ten … had made rate concessions to blind travelers and their guides under a "charity" classification, which was the only …

AccessWorld's 2017 Online Shopping Guide

… and it's time for the AccessWorld online shopping guide. This year, Hickory Farms, Macy's, ThinkGeek, and … way to navigate a page. Hickory Farms Hickory Farms sells gift baskets and specialty foods. When the home page loads, … home page has an extensive list of categories including Gifts with Wine, Military Gifts, Personalized Gifts, and …
Janet Ingber
AccessWorld November 2017

Focus on AFB: Spring 2021

… we were all going through,” says Melody Goodspeed, a major gifts specialist at AFB and host of the podcast. “I thought … drive advocacy and policies to create a world of no limits. Guide Dogs for the Blind In October 2020, AFB began a … Amir Rahimi joined AFB in August 2019 as a major gifts specialist. He chose the job, in part, because after …

Chapter 5: Let’s Talk Nondriving and Low Vision Driving for Teens and People in Their Early 20s

… to be free. So if I have packages and my cane or my dog guide that I'm not tying one of my hands up with a … okay because you have two options. You could go buy a gift card for whichever company you want to use and you can prepay that gift card so then you can load it in to the app or they have …

Criticism, Praise, Questions, and Additional Reader Comments

… advertising afforded them in articles such as the Holiday Gift Ideas for People with Vision Loss article. AccessWorld … Electronics Dear AccessWorld Editor, As I observe many guide dog users, two things happen that, in my estimation, … the thinking and all these wonderful things they think guide dogs can do. My two examples are these: First, I can't …
AccessWorld January 2012

Thoughts from the 2011 M-Enabling Summit

… And, within a few years, TV equipment controls and program guides are supposed to be made accessible to people with … phone, voice-controlled dialing might be considered a great gift. But this "joy of something" quickly evaporates when …
Paul Schroeder

Smartphone GPS Navigation

… your way around your neighborhood or city using a cane or guide dog. These are skills you will need to learn and … been before. Perhaps you want to buy your spouse a surprise gift. Maybe you need to pick up some cash from the nearest … Both are accessible, but as you will discover later in this guide, if you are going to spend money on a GPS navigation …

Amazon and Target Offer One-Stop Shopping Apps for Holiday Gifts

… there were 29 pages of links including many to find general gifts or cool tech gifts. Even with this much content, information was clearly … by Jamie Pauls AccessWorld 's 2017 Online Shopping Guide by Janet Ingber More by this author: The iPhone X for …
Janet Ingber
AccessWorld December 2018

Solutions For Seniors with Age-Related Vision Loss: Products under $100

… Turn it on and immediately hear an onboard recorded user's guide. Six buttons, easily identified by sight or touch, … this article . Related articles: AccessWorld 2018 Holiday Gift Guide by Deborah Kendrick Holiday Gift Guide for the Last-Minute Shopper by Deborah Kendrick …
Deborah Kendrick, Aaron Preece
AccessWorld February 2019

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