The American Council of the Blind’s Director of Development Tony Stephens joins us to talk about ACB’s 2021 Audio Description Awards Gala and how the event will honor major achievements that paved the way for creating the audio description standard.
To listen to this week’s “Speaking Out for the Blind,” go to: https://www.acbmedia.org/home/streams/, and choose one of the links under the heading “ACB Media 1 – Mainstream,” or call 1-518-906-1820, and when prompted, press “1” for ACB Media 1. You may also listen to the program live on the ACB Link mobile app. For more information, go to http://link.acb.org. Show archive page is at https://speaking-out-for-the-blind.pinecast.co/.
How to access ACB Media 1 on Amazon Alexa:
From your Alexa-enabled device first Enable the skill by saying:
1. Approach your Alexa device and issue this command: “Alexa, Delete Everything I’ve Ever Said on this device”
Please Note: This will need to be done on each Alexa device in your home.
2. Wait 30 seconds and then say: “Alexa, Open ACB Media”
The new ACB Media skill will launch.
As a reminder, ask for the name of the stream that you would like to hear. The list below are the names for each of the ACB Media stream designations:
- ACB Mainstream is now ACB 1
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