Are you ready to start gearing up for the 2019 ACB Brenda Dillon Memorial Walk? “100K Photo Finish” is this year’s Walk theme. The Photo Finish is in line with the overall convention theme of Picture the Future. What does the 100K part represent? Yes, you guessed it! Our goal is to raise at least $100,000 for ACB and its affiliates this year, and with your help, we can do it.

Thank you to everyone who helped, in any way, make the 2018 Walk a success. We raised more than $93,000.

So start thinking about how you can get involved in this year’s Walk, even if you are not coming…

“Dots and Dashes” is a short newsletter featuring a variety of topics and ACB stories. This issue features a reminder on membership updates, the results of the World Blind Union’s Audio Description Survey, the USA is the 50th signer to the Marrakesh Treaty, information about the next board of publications meeting, WBU Audio Description Survey results, and the latest Advocacy Updates.

Membership Updates Reminder

A reminder to all affiliates: March 15th is the last day to submit AMMS additions, deletions, or changes until May 1, 2019. …

Select the link from the list below for the BOP meeting minutes you would like to read.

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via conference call
 
The meeting was called to order by Chair, Denise Colley at 9:05pm EST.
Members present:  Denise Colley, Ron Brooks, Tom Mitchell, Judy Wilkinson, and Doug Powell
Ex Officio members present:  Bob Hachey (IOC), Nolan Crabb (PR), Berl Colley (Oral History), and Kim Charlson (President)
Editor:  Sharon Lovering
Contractors:  Annette Carter (Website), Larry Turnbull (Internet and ACB Radio)
Guests:  Sue Ammeter, Dan Spoone, Carla Ruschival, Ken Stewart, Rod from Oklahoma
 
The agenda was approved as…

The meeting was called to order by Chair, Denise Colley at 9:04 pm EST
Members present:  Denise Colley, Tom Mitchell, Judy Wilkinson, and Doug Powell
Absent:  Ron Brooks
Ex Officio members present:  Bob Hachey (IOC), Nolan Crabb (PR), Berl Colley (Oral History)
Editor:  Sharon Lovering
Contractors:  Annette Carter (Website), Larry Turnbull (Internet and ACB Radio)
Guests:  Ken Stewart, Carla Ruschival, Dan Spoone, Malaina VanderWal
 
The agenda was approved as distributed.
The October 6, 2014 meeting minutes were…

The meeting was called to order by Chair, Denise Colley at 9:02pm EDT.
Members present:  Denise Colley, Ron Brooks, Tom Mitchell, Judy Wilkinson, and Doug Powell
Ex Officio members present:  Kim Charlson (President)
Absent:  Nolan Crabb (PR), Bob Hachey (IOC)
Editor:  Sharon Lovering was present.
Contractors:  Annette Carter (Website), Larry Turnbull (Internet and ACB Radio) were present.
Guests: Carla Ruschival, Berl Colley, Ken Stewart,…

ACB Joins all of its U.S. partner organizations in celebrating the final diplomatic step for the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland on February 8, 2019. ACB President Kim Charlson is a member of the Board of Directors of the Accessible Books Consortium, the WIPO entity working on implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty with the fifty member countries. She is also working with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped/Library of Congress in planning for the implementation of the…

After some freeconferencecall.com technical difficulties, the meeting was called to order by Chair Denise Colley at 9:20 pm EDT.
 
Members present:  Denise Colley, Ron Brooks, Tom Mitchell, Judy Wilkinson, and Doug Powell
 
Ex officio members present:  Berl Colley, Bob Hachey and Kim Charlson
 
Ex officio absent:  Nolan Crabb tried to get on, but was not successful.
 
Contractors present:  Annette Carter and Larry Turnbull
Staff present:…

The meeting was called to order by Chair Denise Colley at 9:05pm EDT.
Members present:  Denise Colley, Ron Brooks, Tom Mitchell, Doug Powell
Members absent:  Judy Wilkinson
Ex officio members present:  Berl Colley.  Bob Hachey and Kim Charlson arrived after roll call.
Ex officio absent:  Ron Milliman (resigned),
Staff and contractors present:  Sharon Lovering, Annette Carter, Larry Turnbull
Guests:  Sue Ammeter, Marcia Dresser, Kevin & Becky Frankeberger, Ken Stewart and Carla Ruschival
 
The agenda for the meeting…

A new international survey reveals that audio description (AD) is an important assistive technology worldwide providing access to people who are blind or have low vision to the arts and many other visually-rich events.

The new international AD survey (69 countries and the Pacific Disability Forum) finds that:

• 67% of respondents said that AD is available in the respondent’s country;
• cinema, television, live performing arts, and DVDs lead the list of the type of AD experiences available (followed by museums, the web, smartphones, in educational settings and in…