EBSCO Information Services Partners with The Carroll Center for the Blind to Advance User Research and Design
IPSWICH, Mass. (May 16, 2019) — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and The Carroll Center for the Blind today announced a partnership in which the two organizations will work together to improve and enhance the experience across EBSCO products for users with a varying array of disabilities. The Carroll Center for the Blind, based in Newton, [...]
Carroll Society Award Winners – 2019
The Carroll Center for the Blind and the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind recognize outstanding employees who are visually impaired through the annual Carroll Society Awards Ceremony. These Awards recognize blind and visually impaired employees who have made significant contributions to their companies by their outstanding ability and job performance. Individuals are chosen because, despite [...]
Strategic Partnership to Improve Online Access to Digital Documents for the Visually Impaired
NEWTON, Mass. (April 29, 2019) – The Carroll Center for the Blind of Newton, Mass., and Open Access Technologies, Inc. (OAT) of Hollis, N.H., have entered into a Distribution Partnership Agreement whereby The Carroll Center’s Accessibility Services Department will actively support and sell accessible digital document creation and remediation service offerings of OAT to The [...]
The Coming Web Crack-Up
BY PETER SLATIN | This post is the first in a series on web accessibility. | Remember the bumper stickers that read, If You Can Read This, You’re Too Close? Yeah, danger ahead. Well, as America races down the cyber-highway, we should be on the lookout for a pile-up, because despite warning signs (as in [...]
Blind Japanese Sailor Completes Non-Stop Pacific Voyage
A blind Japanese sailor has completed a non-stop Pacific crossing, reportedly making him the first visually impaired person to do so. Mitsuhiro Iwamoto, 52, sailed the 8,700-mile (14,000 km) crossing with the help of a sighted navigator. His 12m (40 ft) yacht made port in Fukushima on Saturday morning, ending his two-month trip. He left [...]
Blind People Can Struggle to Understand Memes, So They Made Their Own
BY JUSTIN CAFFIER | Screen-reading software allows visually impaired people to use the internet, but it hits a wall when it comes to memes. | In January, a photo of a woman holding a probing cane and looking at a phone went viral on Facebook after the poster implied that the subject was faking blindness given that [...]
Seeing What’s New – Community Conversations on WXLO 104.5 FM
Vicki Greene of WXLO 104.5 FM recently invited the Carroll Center for the Blind to join her in the studio for her Community Conversations segment. Each week, Greene has a 30-minute conversation where guests tell the story behind the story. President and CEO, Gregory J. Donnelly, joined her for a conversation about vision loss. To listen to [...]
Carroll Center President Visits WBZ NightSide with Dan Rea
The Carroll Center for the Blind was invited to join NightSide with Dan Rea on WBZ NewsRadio 1030. The Carroll Center for the Blind President and CEO, Gregory J. Donnelly, spoke to veteran news journalist, Dan Rea, about vision loss. The special show featured a conversation about vision loss, the Center’s mission, and how people [...]
WBZ Cares Selects Carroll Center for the Blind as Featured Non-profit
Each month, Doug Cope and WBZ NewsRadio 1030 select an organization to profile through its public service initiative, WBZ Cares. We're thrilled to announce that WBZ NewsRadio has selected the Carroll Center for the Blind as the WBZ Cares featured non-profit during March. Tune in and listen every Wednesday throughout the month as they highlight [...]
19th Annual New England Regional Braille Challenge Winners
The 19th Annual New England Regional Braille Challenge is officially a wrap! This competition, a national program of the Braille Institute, encourages blind and visually impaired children to hone their braille skills which are essential to success in the sighted world. Regional winners could be eligible to go on to the Braille Challenge finals in Los Angeles [...]
