Sound Prints

Presentation of the Paul J. Langan Distinguished Service Award from the Kentucky School for the Blind; overview of technology sessions from Microsoft, Google, Charter Communications, Sprint and more at the upcoming convention of the American Council of the Blind in Reno/Sparks, NV

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