Updated as of September 14, 2024. Join us as we learn about a program that can provide accessible versions of college textbooks. Can’t I Get My College Textbooks from My School’s Disability Services Office? Yes, you certainly can. However, the Maryland Accessible Textbook Program (MATP), discussed below, provides you with an additional option to order […]
Spotlight September Our September Spotlight series highlights high-impact projects and resources offered by two consumer organizations of blind people: the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). In this fourth and final installment, we spotlight some resources available from the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). NFB Publications […]
Updated as of October 8, 2024. Join us as we spotlight some informative and entertaining offerings from the American Council of the Blind (ACB). The ACB Media Network In the late 1990s, the American Council of the Blind pioneered something that had never been done before in the blind/low vision community and had very rarely […]
Spotlight September Our September Spotlight series highlights high-impact projects and resources offered by two consumer organizations of blind people: the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). In this third installment, we spotlight some informative and entertaining offerings from the American Council of the Blind (ACB). The ACB […]
Updated as of October 9, 2024. Here are some tips to help access text on inaccessible PDFs. Why It Matters PDFs are everywhere; PDF accessibility is not. To complicate matters, the ability of PDFs to be accessible is widely misunderstood; some have the mistaken belief that PDFs cannot be made to be accessible for blind […]