Volume LVI - December 2017 - No. 6
Published by the American Council of the Blind
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© 2017 American Council of the Blind
Eric Bridges, Executive Director
Sharon Lovering, Editor
1703 N. Beauregard St., Suite 420, Alexandria, VA 22311
Table of Contents
- President’s Message: Visiting Affiliates – It Makes Me Proud, by Kim Charlson
- Eatsa Agrees to Make Its Cutting-Edge Technology Accessible to Blind Customers
- 2018 Convention Tidbits, by Janet Dickelman
- Audio Description in Your Community, by Joel Snyder
- Medicare and Diabetes, by Danielle Kunkle
- Reaching Blind and Visually Impaired Seniors, compiled by the ACB Membership Committee
- I Love to Fly, by Larry P. Johnson
- Phoebe Catlin: A Humble Centenarian, by Greg Lindberg
- Amy Salmon Seemingly Does the Impossible, by John M. Williams
- Holiday Season at the ACB Mini Mall, by Carla Ruschival
- Here and There, edited by Sharon Strzalkowski
- Separate, by Ann Chiappetta
- ACB Officers, Board of Directors and Board of Publications
- Accessing Your ACB Braille and E-Forums
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Blind show hosts offer a plethora of musical genres atwww.acbradio.org/interactive.
Corrections
Due to an editing error, the telephone number for the ACB Mini Mall was listed incorrectly (“Mini Mall Mayhem,” November 2017). The correct number is 1-877-630-7190.
Due to an editing error, the date of Redbox beginning to provide quarterly reports listing the locations where the kiosks have been modified during the preceding quarter was listed as 3018 (“Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action Lawsuit,” ACB E-Forum, August 2017). It should have been 2018.
In an item about blind pen pals and blind singles listservs in “Here and There” (ACB E-Forum, June 2017), the email addresses listed were incorrect. The correct address to subscribe to the blind penpals group is [email protected]; for the blind singles group, it is[email protected].
We regret the errors.
