Title: BLINDSIDED

2 hour pilot, 8 episode guarantee

BLINDSIDED is a crime drama following police detective, Emma Bardovi, who is having to relearn how to do her job after an accident causes her to lose her vision. 

Shooting Locations: Vancouver and Los Angeles

Seeking: Female, early 30s to mid 40s, Any Ethnicity, MUST BE visually impaired. Seeking an actress who can play an intelligent, wry-humored, confident, strong-willed, stubborn, first-rate Los Angeles police detective. Someone with presence who can…

Today, ACB President Dan Spoone sent a letter to the Biden-Harris Administration to request immediate action be taken for accessible rapid testing options for our community. This is as direct result of the challenges raised by our ACB Members and the inaccessibility of current testing options. 

American Council of the Blind
1703 N. Beauregard St. Suite 420
Alexandria, VA 22311

January 21, 2022

Kimberly Knackstedt
Director of Disability Policy
Whitehouse Domestic Policy Council

Dear Dr. Kimberly Knackstedt:

As the President of the…

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Clark speaks with Steven Ewell, Executive Director, Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Foundation, and Matt Ater, Vice President, Vispero, about the accessible tech innovations at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). ACB attended CES as a guest of the CTA Foundation as part of the organization’s tenth year inviting accessibility leaders to CES. Tune in to hear about how consumer companies, both big and small, are making their products more accessible and useable for…

On Sunday, January 16th, the American Council of the Blind Board of Directors unanimously voted for the 2022 DC Leadership Meetings to be held virtually on March 12th – March 15th.

Details to come:

• Online registration for the 2022 DC Leadership Meetings is planned to open next week – date to be confirmed. 
• The 2022 DC Leadership Meetings event agenda and schedules are currently in development and will be shared at the beginning of February through a…

Here’s a way to celebrate all we’ve done in 2021 as part of our community. This twelve hour event will include: a focus on different events each hour, entertainment, opportunity to give back to ACB, prizes, fun, fun, and more fun. This is an event you won’t want to miss. Ring in 2022 with your friends in our ACB community!

Make your donation here: https://tinyurl.com/2021-community-athon or call 888-444-8320 and a volunteer will assist you (please do not leave credit card information on a voicemail). For every $25 donated, your…

The Elf on the Shelf® and Elf Pets® have fast become holiday mainstays, appearing in a wide variety of popular books, toys, and videos, and loved by children of all ages all around the world. Audio description is an added soundtrack that describes visual images for the benefit of people who are blind or have low vision.

Once again, the American Council of the Blind (ACB), VITAC, and The Lumistella Company are proud to offer a special radio broadcast of the animated holiday special, “Elf Pets: A Fox Cub’s Christmas Tale,” on ACB Media to make holiday cheer more widely available to all…

The American Council of the Blind and our affiliate Guide Dog Users Inc. have received multiple complaints from members that rideshare drivers are refusing service to blind and low vision passengers and claiming that they were not wearing a mask to avoid disciplinary action. If you believe this has happened to you, please share your experience with ACB by answering this short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZBSM6WC…

The American Council of the Blind has defeated a summary judgment motion in federal court in California that sought to dismiss ACB’s claims that the self-service kiosks at Quest Diagnostics’ Patient Service Centers are inaccessible to blind patients in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case will now be able to proceed to trial, and has been certified as a nationwide class action on behalf of all legally blind individuals who visited Quest in…

Paramount is seeking actors who are blind or visually impaired to play the supporting role of Suzy for the film Need My Eyes.

The character Suzy is female, 11-14 years old to play 12 years old, open ethnicity. Suzy has a close friendship to her older sister Ash, who babysits her and orchestrates fun games of hide-and-seek while their parents are out of town. Having been blind since she was born, she inspires her sister Ash to sign up for an app called See For Me that helps blind individuals complete tasks.

Filming takes place March-April 2022 in…

Spoken Rx is the first in-app prescription reader to be developed by a national retail pharmacy

WOONSOCKET, RI, November 30, 2021 – CVS Pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is now offering Spoken Rx™, its proprietary audio prescription label solution, in all its nearly 10,000 pharmacy locations nationwide, including more than 1,700 CVS Pharmacy locations within Target. Developed in collaboration with the American Council of the Blind, Spoken Rx is a technology that allows patients to have their prescription information read aloud, designed…