Steve Kelley, Author at ConnectCenter

VRT Week 2025: Spotlight on Life-Changing Vision Services

Posted on April 8, 2025 - 12:08 pm by Steve Kelley

Anne Sullivan stands behind Helen Keller for a portrait

Editor’s Note: The APH ConnectCenter updated the following blog as of March 2025. We observe Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT) Appreciation Week annually on Anne Sullivan’s birthday (April 14, 1866). This year, VRT Week will occur from April 13 to 19, 2025. Anne Sullivan was the home teacher who taught Helen Keller the skills she later used as […]

Read an eBook Week 

Posted on March 8, 2024 - 10:24 am by Steve Kelley

person sitting on the couch and holding an eReader

March ushers in Read an eBook Week. It’s the perfect time to celebrate how digital eBooks have transformed reading for those who find print difficult or impossible to read. Methods for accessing and reading eBooks vary. Regardless of your blindness, low vision, or comfort level with technology, there is a way to read. NLS One of […]

Raz Mobility SmartVision 3 – An Accessible Android Smartphone

iPhone-size smartphone with a touch screen and tactile keypad

Raz Mobility has tamed the Android smartphone’s screen reader, TalkBack, and packaged it in a phone with a number pad you can feel in a smartphone! The SmartVision3 puts the user back in control of the Android TalkBack screen reader by using navigation buttons instead of gestures and simplifying the menu with up, down, and […]

White Cane Safety Day

White Cane Safety Day in the U.S. was first officially recognized in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. This day is commemorated annually with a presidential proclamation. While sticks and canes had been used for centuries as tools to help blind people navigate safely, James Biggs from Bristol, England, claimed to have invented the white cane […]