Speaking Out for the Blind

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 227 - Web Browser

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 227 - Web Browser

September 12, 2020
Carroll Center for the Blind Technology Instructor David Kingsbury will talk about his new book titled: When One Web Browser Is Not Enough: A Guide For Windows Screen Reader Users. The new book is a timely resource for blind and visually impaired Windows Narrator and JAWS users who surf the Internet.

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 226 - Covid Support

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 226 - Covid Support

September 10, 2020
IFB Solutions has created the People First Fund to help the organization’s blind and visually impaired employees during the coronavirus pandemic. The People First Fund helps employees receive assistance, including financial help. Joining us to talk about that fund will be IFB Solutions’ Sewing Machine Operator Roderick Wilson. He is a recipient of the fund and a blind COVID-19 survivor. Also joining us will be IFB Solutions’ Senior Director of Corporate Communications Nicole Ducouer.

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 225 - Summer Camp

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 225 - Summer Camp

August 21, 2020
It may be hard for blind and visually impaired kids to attend summer camp during this current pandemic. But WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina that says that a group called S.E.E. or SEE is teaming up with the YMCA at Lake Norman so that visually impaired children can interact with non-visually impaired kids through games, activities, and exercises. The YMCA Lake Norman Executive Director Matt Fitzwater and S.E.E. Charlotte Youth Program Director Alli Romero join us to tell about this special free summer camp.

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 224 - Spoken RX

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 224 - Spoken RX

August 14, 2020
Fierce Healthcare says that CVS Pharmacy is rolling out a special new feature on its mobile app to help visually impaired patients with reading their prescription information. Joining us to talk about this development will be Eleanor Wong, CVS Health’s District Leader for the San Francisco, California area.

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 223 - Computer Circuits

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 223 - Computer Circuits

August 1, 2020
According to Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, the college is taking on a research project, aiming to help blind and visually impaired people learn computer circuit design. Joining us to talk about the work will be the project Senior Researcher and Dartmouth Assistant Professor of Computer Science Xing-Dong Yang.

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 222 - Audio Journal

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 222 - Audio Journal

August 1, 2020
Worcester Magazine reports that the Coronavirus pandemic is causing some unique issues for regular listeners of Audio Journal. Audio Journal is a nonprofit organization whose mission in Central Massachusetts is to connect individuals with a visual impairment, or an inability to access print material, to their communities through broadcasting of local news, information, and entertainment. To talk about these issues will be Audio Journal’s Executive Director Mary Frandsen.

Speaking out for the Blind Episode 221 - Vocational Rehabilitation’s Past, Present, and Future

Speaking out for the Blind Episode 221 - Vocational Rehabilitation’s Past, Present, and Future

July 13, 2020
The Muskogee Phoenix Newspaper says that June 2nd marked the 100 th anniversary of vocational rehabilitation for the United States. The U.S. Vocational Rehabilitation program is the program that helps the blind and all people with disabilities get jobs. Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services specialists will join us to talk about the U.S. vocational rehabilitation program’s historical success and future for the blind and disabled.

Speaking out for the Blind Episode 220 - Care Packages

Speaking out for the Blind Episode 220 - Care Packages

June 29, 2020
According to CBS46 Atlanta, a Madison, Georgia non-profit is giving away care packages, full of basic necessities to rural blind and visually impaired residents. The non-profit is called Living Life Team, Inc. Joining us to talk about Living Life Team, Inc will be its President and Founder Rita Harris.

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 219 - Curio

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 219 - Curio

June 29, 2020
The top international journal called Nature reports that technology is essential for the lives of blind, even though many computer devices and programs aren’t universally accessible. While attending Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands to pursue his Master’s Degree in Integrated Product Design, Krishna Rajagopal developed a special tool to address this serious problem. He’ll talk about this tool.

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 218 - Social Distancing

Speaking Out for the Blind Episode 218 - Social Distancing

June 16, 2020
The coronavirus is an especially difficult time for the blind and visually impaired. According to the Miami Herald, the rules of social distancing are hard to follow when you can’t see. So what can be done about this major challenge? Joining us to answer this question are Miami Lighthouse for the Blind Chief Executive Officer Virginia Jacko, their spokesman David Stiefel, and also blind motivational speaker Mike Lance.