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Access Information News is the world's leading not-for-profit access information newsletter that reaches over 45,000 blind, low vision, deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, neurodivergent and/or disabled professionals, educators and enthusiasts, all over the world, each week. Subscribe today at: https://accessinformationnews.com/subscribe.

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· 1w ago

Access Information News for Monday, September 28, 2026 - Volume 1086 | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op https://accessinformationnews.com/newsletter-09-28-2026/ ♿️ The Week's News in Access Information A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication #news #accessibility #a11y #disability #blind #deaf #DeafBlind #ain Access Information News. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access information. Email Subscribers: 48,525 🔢️ Social Media: 199,069 🔢️

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Access Information News for Monday, September 28, 2026 - Volume 1086

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· 2mo ago

🔬 Paid Research Opportunity: Wet Macular Degeneration and/or Diabetic Macular Edema | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op https://rarepatientvoice.com/rp/DrKirk Rare Patient Voice wants to hear from you — they'll pay for your time. 👤 Who: Patients & Caregivers, ages 45-99, affected by Wet Macular Degeneration and/or Diabetic Macular Edema 📝 What: 45-minute Web-Assisted Telephone Interview 💵 Compensation: $125 Please share with anyone who may qualify. 💜 #RarePatientVoice #RareDisease

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· 5mo ago

🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #86: Interview with Pam Cusick, Senior Vice President, Driving Growth, Outreach & Patient Voice Integration, Rare Patient Voice
By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-04-21-2026/

Donna J. Jodhan World-Renowned Blind Advocate

Remarkable World Commentary Episode #86: Interview with Pam Cusick, Senior Vice President, Driving Growth, Outreach & Patient Voice Integration, Rare Patient Voice

In this heartfelt episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan sits down with Pam Cusick, Senior Vice President of Rare Patient Voice, to explore how patient-centered healthcare research is reshaping the relationship between people living with medical conditions and the companies developing treatments, products, and services for them. Pam traces her 30-year path in the field back to her first job working on FDA blood-donor screening research, then walks through how Rare Patient Voice

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· 5mo ago

Dignity, Independence, and Choice: Welcoming Air Canada's Newest Accessibility Champions
By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://donnajodhan.com/air-canada-accessibility-champions/

Donna welcomes Air Canada's expanded Accessibility Advisory Committee — Chair Meghan Hines, Vice Chair Robert Cassius de Linval, and four new members — reflecting on three words from Director Wilson the community has been speaking for decades.
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Donna J. Jodhan World-Renowned Blind Advocate

Dignity, Independence, and Choice: Welcoming Air Canada's Newest Accessibility Champions

Here Donna Jodhan welcomes the newest members of Air Canada's Accessibility Advisory Committee, including newly appointed Chair Meghan Hines, Vice Chair Robert Cassius de Linval, and incoming members Ben Almond, Melanie Heroux, Yat Li, and Jim Mann, LL.D., and reflects on the three words spoken by Air Canada's Director of Customer Accessibility, Kerianne Wilson: that everyone deserves to travel with dignity, independence, and choice. These are not buzzwords, Donna writes. They are the very words

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· 5mo ago

🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #85: Interview with Kim Charlson, Global Inclusion And Accessibility Advocate For The Disability Community
By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-04-16-2026/

Donna and Kim trace 41 years at Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library, the Marrakesh Treaty, accessible voting, tactile U.S. currency, and the technologies reshaping blind independence next.

Donna J. Jodhan World-Renowned Blind Advocate

Remarkable World Commentary Episode #85: Interview with Kim Charlson, Global Inclusion And Accessibility Advocate For The Disability Community

In this wide-ranging episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan sits down with Kim Charlson, Director of the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library, to trace Kim's 41-year journey at Perkins, from losing her vision at age 11, to becoming one of the first totally blind people in the United States to earn a master's degree in library science, to leading one of the country's most innovative accessible library programs for the past 24 years. Kim describes how the library has grown far

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· 2mo ago

Accessible Sci-Fi Summer Reading | By Stephen Theberge | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/stephentheberge All four of my science fiction e-books are 50% off through July 31. Most accessible for anyone with screen readers, available in various formats. Open your mind to summer adventure.

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Stephen A. Theberge

I was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1963. Shortly thereafter, I moved to Attleboro, Massachusetts with my parents and my siblings, Denyse and Remy. In 1968, I began attending Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts as a residential student, graduating in 1982. I enrolled at Rhode Island College in 1982. I graduated from there in 1987 with a BA in computer science and a second BA in English literature, with a focus on creative, technical, and analytical writing. In the late 1980s