Updated as of February 4, 2024. Join us as we spotlight some informative and entertaining offerings from the American Council of the Blind (ACB). The ACB Media Network In the late 1990s, the American Council of the Blind pioneered something that had never been done before in the blind/low vision community and had very rarely […]
Author: Carlton Walker
Spotlight September Our September Spotlight series highlights high-impact projects and resources offered by two consumer organizations of blind people: the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). In this third installment, we spotlight some informative and entertaining offerings from the American Council of the Blind (ACB). The ACB […]
Updated as of February 4, 2024. Here are some tips to help you access text on inaccessible PDFs. Why It Matters PDFs are everywhere; PDF accessibility is not. To complicate matters, the ability of PDFs to be accessible is widely misunderstood; some have the mistaken belief that PDFs cannot be made to be accessible for […]
Updated as of February 4, 2024. Here are some tips that can help you get access to text that is shared in online classes. Why It Matters People who are unfamiliar with blindness/low vision often assume that any text that is in electronic and/or digital form is automatically accessible. For instance, they may take a […]
Updated as of January 28, 2024. History of the White Cane In older literature and in written accounts of daily life, it is common to read that a person who was blind/had low vision used a long object such as a branch or metal pole while walking to give them information about the ground in […]