Jun 28, 2024 | Braille, Featured, Kentucky, Lifestyle, News
Each year since 2003, Ex Officio Trustees (EOT’s) throughout the United States nominate those who they feel have provided outstanding service in the blindness or low vision field in their region. Members of the Trustee Advisory Committee (TAC) are then challenged with...
Jun 28, 2024 | Creator, Kentucky, Media, News, YouTube
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Jun 27, 2024 | Braille, Featured, Kentucky, Lifestyle, News
One of the most fascinating treasures at The Dot Experience is the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Helen Keller Archival Collection. The single largest holding of Keller related letters, speeches, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, architectural...
Jun 26, 2024 | Braille, Featured, Kentucky, Lifestyle, News
We celebrated a very special woman at the Saint Matthews Eline Library on June 15. Born on June 27, 1880, Helen Keller is arguably the most recognizable DeafBlind figure in history. Her ferocious activism paved the way for many underrepresented groups of people, and...
Jun 25, 2024 | Braille, Featured, Kentucky, Lifestyle, News
APH’s Monarch has flown into the hearts of many professionals. We recently spoke with Seth Leblond, the Assistive Technology Coordinator at the Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix, Arizona, about discovering this new device and how it would be useful to him and...
Jun 24, 2024 | Braille, Featured, Kentucky, Lifestyle, News
Technology is constantly changing, opening a whole new world of possibilities that were unimaginable even ten years ago. Rendering braille and tactile graphics on the same surface, APH’s Monarch fits into that category. The Monarch’s multiline braille display is...