Donated by Keri Bishop
This lovely doll is a repurposed craft item with all the fabrics cut from other items. She has a medium complexion, hand embroidered face with hazel eyes and heart shaped dimples at the tips of her smile, and hair made of brown knobby yarn. She wears a light sage green paisley printed dress, darker sage green solid color bloomers, and black denim shoes.
Donated by Debbie Hazelton
Join ACB on November 9th at 12pm EDT as we recognize National Diabetes Awareness Month. This live event will be the first part of a ten-part series, Diabetes: Where We Are and Where We’re Going. Diabetes has rapidly become one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. Learn about the challenges to health management and opportunities on the horizon as several members of ACB’s Diabetics in Action affiliate share their stories and discuss what barriers stand in the way of independence.
ACB and our state affiliates, are eager to collect as much information as possible concerning your voting experience surrounding the 2020 General Election. This information includes more than just what happened on November 3, if you decided to vote in person that day. Rather, we want to know your entire experience from when you registered to vote to when you received an absentee ballot in the mail to when you went to the polling site. In other words, please share any voting-related facts with us.
Court Decision will Dramatically Remake NYC’s Streetscape by Making Pedestrian Safety Accessible to People with Disabilities
October 19, 2020 - In a landmark agreement, advocates for people who are blind have obtained WarnerMedia’s pledge to increase the accessibility of HBO Max—the much-anticipated online streaming platform that was launched earlier this year. Among other commitments, the agreement provides that WarnerMedia will provide audio description on at least 1,500 hours of new and existing programming on HBO Max by the end of March 2021, increasing to 3,000 hours by the end of March 2022, and doubling again to at least 6,000 hours in total by the end of March 2023.