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On this week’s episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Grace speak with a member of our California affiliate about her experiences on...

This week, Claire speaks with two of our leaders from our low vision affiliate to discuss a letter sent to the State Department surrounding...

This week, Claire speaks with someone from AFB about potential changes in the Title II website regulations due to come out in April. The two...

This week, Clare and Kolby speak with ACB’s new operations administrator, Grace Hart. The three have a fun conversation to learn more about...

This week, Claire and our advocacy fellow, Nadia, talk about the 2026 legislative imperatives. More specifically, they talk about the commit...

This week, Claire talks with Kolby to learn about her experience at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It is exciting to see a...

Making Transportation More Accessible for All This week, Claire speaks with two colleagues who attended the NCUTCD and Transportation Resear...

On this week’s episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, ACB Executive Director Scott Thornhill speaks about the Randolph-Sheppard Act, which cele...

This week, Claire speaks with Lea Rowe from BVA about their experience at a Meta Wearables Summit in Northern California.

This week, Claire, Kolby, and Scott look back over all of the advocacy work that was done in 2025.

This week, Claire speaks with our intern about two more bills ACB is following closely. Congress has been busy introducing new bills. We wil...

This week Claire speaks with another member of the Consumer Protection and Accessibility Advisory Committee (CPAAC) with the Federal Communi...

This week, Claire speaks with 3 individuals from other advocacy organizations we work closely with to learn about where the 2025 legislative...

This week, Claire and Kolby are joined by Em Whitworth and Dewey Bushaw from Speak4 to discuss how ACB partnered with Speak4 to make the pla...

On the 15th anniversary of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), Claire speaks with three experts, reminiscing...

This week, Claire speaks with the chair of the resolutions committee about the process to complete the 2025, ACB resolutions. The process to...

This week, Claire speaks with two experts on library services and potential federal funding cuts to such services. The two experts outline h...

This week, Claire speaks with two ACB members about their positive experience using the Speak4 platform. They share their thoughts and exper...

This week, Claire speaks with our Advocacy Fellow about several new bills Congress has introduced that will benefit the blind and disabled c...

This week Claire speaks with Doug Powell and Pris Rogers about the Older Americans Act and related legislation. These two experts in service...

This week, Claire talks with Rob Buettner about their experiences at the 2025 VisionServe Alliance conference that was held in Scottsdale, A...

This week, Claire speaks with a colleague from the VisionServe alliance about a new platform. ACB members can use to reach out to Congress....

This week, Claire speaks with Cleo from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to learn more about their involvement in setting ac...

This week, Claire speaks with allies from three other disability advocacy groups to learn more about three bills ACB is supporting. The bill...

This week, Claire chats with ACB’s Advocacy Fellow Mia about her recent visits to House offices on Capitol Hill. From hallway meetings to su...

This week, Claire speaks with two attorneys from Disability Rights Advocates about current disability rights litigation to better understand...

This week, Claire and Scott talk about a “grab bag” of advocacy issues. ACB is busy keeping up with a myriad of new bills that are soon to b...

This week, Claire speaks with an attorney from the Disability Rights Education Fund (DREDF) to better understand the case of Texas v. Becerr...

This week, Claire speaks with a previous chair of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) about what the organization is and...

This week, Claire And Kolby talk about their experience in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronic Show. The conference provided an opportunity...

This week, Claire and Cindy preview the DC Leadership Conference, which will take place March 14-18 at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in A...

This week, Claire had the opportunity to speak with Stephanie Flynt McEben from the National Disability Rights Network regarding the U.S. Ce...

This week, Claire speaks with ACB’s executive director, Scott Thornhill, to learn more about his visit to several state affiliate convention...

This week, we get to know one of our newly elected Board members from the 2024 annual Convention. Claire and Swatha spoke with Peter Heide t...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha reflect on all that has happened in 2024 with special guests Deb Cook Lewis, A...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha speak with ACB’s Audio Description Project Coordinator, Tabitha Kenlon, in add...

This week, Claire speaks with Will Schell from the Disability Rights Office of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about a newly sub...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha provide a smattering of topics and advocacy issues that ACB has been working o...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha preview the 4th annual audio description awards gala with ACB’s Audio Descript...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha revisit the topic of accessible voting with Microsoft's Rylin Rodgers. In this...

On This episode of ACB Advocacy Update, Swatha and Claire speak with Sarah Malaier, Senior Advisor, Public Policy and Research at the Americ...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha recap a series of hearings held by the United States Access Board on AI’s impa...

Join a panel of disability rights attorneys as they discuss an array of issues from current case law that directly impacts the lives of peop...

Scott Thornhill and Claire Stanley Attended the Disability:In conference in Las Vegas Immediately after the annual convention, Scott and Cla...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha speak with Cassie Trosper, President of Veterans of ACB and DKM First Timer Aw...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Swatha speaks with Dania Douglas, Senior Attorney at the National Health Law Program, about the...

On this episode of ACB Advocacy Update, Claire speaks with Heather Ansley from Paralyzed Veterans of America about Congress’s long over due...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha speak with ACB’s Convention Coordinator, Janet Dickelman, and two members of t...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Claire and Swatha go through the recently released rule from the Department of Justice on access...

On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Swatha recaps the California State University Northridge (CSUN) Assistive Technology Conference...