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Welcome Dark Room Ballet: Fine Arts Taught by Blind Artists, Free to Blind StudentsThe new Dark Room Ballet logo, in black on a white background. Text reads: 'DARK ROOM BALLET', in thin, wide capital letters, with the first O in 'ROOM' drawn as a moon: a solid black crescent on its left side and an open outline on its right. Beneath it, smaller, widely spaced capitals read: 'BALLET WITH KRISHNA WASHBURN'. Under that runs a row of round black dots set out like braille cells. At the bottom, a thin horizontal line is broken in the middle by small capitals that read: 'AN ARTS SPACE BY AND FOR BLIND ARTISTS'. The logo is centered with wide white margins.

Welcome Dark Room Ballet: Fine Arts Taught by Blind Artists, Free to Blind Students

Published November 6, 2026 by Aaron Di Blasi

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Access Information News weekly newsletter, welcomes Dark Room Ballet with C. Krishna Washburn and Company as the publication’s newest Sponsor. Founded by C. Krishna Washburn, a professional blind ballet dancer and ballet teacher, Dark Room Ballet is a grant-funded, tuition-free, pre-professional fine arts program for blind and visually impaired adults, taught online at a collegiate level by a faculty of twelve blind and visually impaired teaching artists, with ballet, Simonson jazz, choreography, dancer’s anatomy, vocal training, studio and dramatic arts, and audio description among its courses. Blind and visually impaired students never pay to attend. Washburn describes the program as, in its nascent form, the blind people’s Gallaudet, and Di Blasi explains the comparison, lists the classes readers can register for this season, and describes how Dr. Kirk Adams made the introduction.

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Announcing the Most Requested Sponsor Benefit of All Time: Introducing, ‘When You Publish, We Publish’ by Top Tech Tidbits and Access Information NewsWhen You Publish, We Publish. A new Sponsor benefit from Access Information News. Blog, YouTube, Podcast and Event Calendar: we monitor your news channels each week. On a white background under a blue stripe, the Access Information News logo, a blue globe above the letters AIN, sits above the title, with We Publish in blue. On the right, four light blue cards labeled Blog, YouTube, Podcast and Event Calendar, each with a blue icon, send blue arrows into a card showing this week's Access Information News issue, one of its lines highlighted in blue.

Announcing the Most Requested Sponsor Benefit of All Time: Introducing, ‘When You Publish, We Publish’ by Top Tech Tidbits and Access Information News

Published October 19, 2026 by Aaron Di Blasi

Today I am incredibly happy to announce ‘When You Publish, We Publish’, the most requested Sponsor benefit of all time, for Top Tech Tidbits and Access Information News.

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Welcome, National Organization on Disability: A Sponsor Worth Forwarding to Your EmployerA diverse group of people, including a young woman with Down syndrome, sit together around a table in a bright meeting space, appearing engaged in a collaborative discussion while reviewing documents. A bold orange diagonal graphic overlays the lower half of the image, featuring the white logo and text 'National Organization on Disability'.

Welcome, National Organization on Disability: A Sponsor Worth Forwarding to Your Employer

Published September 28, 2026 by Aaron Di Blasi

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Access Information News weekly newsletter, welcomes National Organization on Disability as the publication’s newest Sponsor, effective Monday, September 28, 2026, and argues that this one is a genuinely different kind of Sponsor. Nearly every Sponsor comes to reach the newsletter’s blind, low vision, deaf, deafblind, neurodivergent and disabled readership directly. NOD does not. Founded in 1982 by Alan A. Reich out of the United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons, and led since May 2024 by President and CEO Beth Sirull, the Washington, DC nonprofit sells to corporate human resources departments and works what Sirull calls the demand side of disability employment, changing how companies hire, onboard, accommodate and promote disabled workers. Rather than paper over that distinction, Di Blasi names it plainly: there are hundreds of organizations working on making you ready for the job, and very few working on making the job ready for you.

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