ACB Tuesday Topics Podcast
Tuesday Topics – Scholarship Winners and Grandparents June 9, 2026 Tuesday Topics once more takes to the internet with a double feature. First, we have some more ACB scholarship winners to get to know. We had our first three and I truly enjoyed exploring in some detail how their experiences had been. Two of our … Read more
On June 2 Tuesday Topics will try another new thing! As we take to the internet we will create a platform for some of our ACB scholarship winners to tell us a little about who they are and what they are doing. Amanda SELM, current chair of the ACB Scholarship Committee, is the prime mover … Read more
At a convention of the Florida Council of the Blind a speaker from Vispero mentioned Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) which happens on May 21, I think. It occurred to me that this might represent a good topic for us to look at. There are huge differences in accessibility even among developed countries. Some of … Read more
It is graduation season and we wonder how that goes for people who are blind. When you graduated from high school or college was that a good experience? Were you treated in a special way as a person with visual impairment? Was the experience memorable for you? Were there problems? Find out more at https://acb-tuesday-topics.pinecast.co
In the past we have done programs on autonomous vehicles. Recently several folks have had the chance to ride in vehicles with no drivers and we thought it would be fun to ask them about their experience and their impressions. We also want to explore where we are in the process of regularizing their ability … Read more
We will be continuing the discussion begun on our latest podcast concerning the state of the blindness nation today and tomorrow. We have essentially finished painting what we think is a fairly accurate picture of how the blindness system has changed over the last couple of decades and what some of the characteristics of the … Read more
People who are blind have access to more information than they have ever had before! There is more technological choice for this population than there has ever been. Consumer organizations are advocating and so are organizations like the American Foundation for the Blind, the Vision Serve Alliance and the American Printing House for the Blind. … Read more
On April 21, from 7 to 9 PM Eastern time, Tuesday Topics will once more take to the internet and other devices with a first look at the ACB convention coming up toward the end of July. We will be hearing about a new program aimed to attract young people to our convention. We will … Read more
We are excited about this program because we will get the chance to have three guests who we will get to know better. All of them are ladies who have recently begun working for the American Council of the Blind. The first of them that I met was Caitlin Lee who was waiting for a … Read more
Tuesday Topics continues its exploration of devices available to purchase for less than a thousand dollars. We will look at several sets of ear buds and explore what makes them worth talking about. We will look at telephones. Some of them actually have buttons you can use to dial! We will explore players. These days … Read more