ACB Tuesday Topics

Tuesday Topics explored ACB governance and the relationship between the national organization and its state and special interest affiliates. Members of ACB’s Constitution and Bylaws Committee joined the discussion about how individual and affiliate votes shaped decisions, how responsibilities were shared, and what changes might serve ACB in the future. Questions included whether to reconsider … Read more

20261027 – Tuesday Topics on ACB Governance Tuesday Topics takes a deliberately detailed approach to understanding where ACB governance is currently. ACB is half way through a process that will define our committees. We are building a new structure and a new hierarchy within which our committees will operate. We get a clear picture of … Read more

20261006 Tuesday Topics – The Importance of Affiliates Tuesday Topics continues its exploration of what makes ACB tick! We look at what may well be an endangered species! Some special-interest affiliates are growing but most state affiliates are not! They either remain where they are or get smaller! We explore why this happens! Obviously as … Read more

20260629 Tuesday Topics: The Future of the ACB National Convention This episode of Tuesday Topics explores what the ACB convention could be like in 5 years. Topics discussed includes: Will it be totally remote? Will it be shorter or longer? Will special interest affiliates operate differently? Will we hold elections in a different way? Will … Read more

20260922 Remembering Terry Pacheco Tuesday Topics focuses on remembering Theresa (Terry) Pacheco who has been active in ACB much longer than Paul Edwards, which is really saying something. Terry died in September, 2026 and in this episode of Tuesday Topics, people who knew and loved Terry share about her life! She was in at the … Read more

20260915 Tuesday Topics on diabetes and ACB Diabetics in Action (ACBDA) This episode of Tuesday Topics focuses on diabetes and the work of ACB Diabetics in Action (ACBDA), a Special Interest Affiliate of the American Council of the Blind. Over the past three years, ACBDA has made significant progress on issues that many once considered … Read more

20260908 Tuesday Topics revisits Employment of people who are blind or have low vision It was the day after Labor Day in the US and so it’s appropriate to talk about the employment of people who are blind or folks with low vision. We explore some history, some recent information and some of our own … Read more

Occasionally Topics likes to ask questions with no right answers and our first September show does that! All of us are story tellers whether we know it or not! Most, if not all of the folks who listen to this program have visual impairments! We ask the team and you to think back over your … Read more

20260825 – Tuesday Topics – All things Internet Radio For the last two episodes of Tuesday Topics, we explored podcasts in great detail. Internet radio is sort of a companion to them. Everybody knows about the ten ACB Media stations but there is a huge number of stations folks can listen to if they choose. … Read more

20260818 – Tuesday topics, Podcasts Part 2 Topics once more considers podcasts. Last week we described what they are and how they work and explored many of the accessible devices where they can be retrieved. This week we spend some time talking about ACB podcasts: how many people have found them and how we can … Read more