Month: July 2026

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Access Information News weekly newsletter, introduces readers to Braille Institute and its new initiative, Vision Support America, a free national resource for people whose vision is changing. He opens on a scene that plays out thousands of times a day, the person who is told to “look into the Braille Institute” and thinks, almost reflexively, “but I’m not blind,” and uses it to name the barrier plainly: most people losing vision today are older adults who keep real, functional sight and never identify as blind, so the very name meant to reassure the blindness community quietly turns newcomers away. Aaron frames Vision Support America as Braille Institute’s answer to that “front door problem,” the same century-old institution standing behind a friendlier, lower-barrier door that greets visitors with a simple question, “Changing Vision? You’ve Come to the Right Place.”

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, a lifetime engineer and Publisher of the Access Information News weekly newsletter, reviews The Disability Dividend, the new 2026 book by Dr. Kirk Adams, the former President and CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind. Rather than hand a colleague a glowing blurb, Di Blasi does something rarer, and discloses exactly why up front: because Adams is a Top Tech Tidbits editor, an Access Information News sponsor, and his own co-founder in the PWD Media Distribution Co-op, he doesn’t endorse the book, he audits it. Reading all 182 pages as three people at once, the computer engineer who wants to see the math, the publisher who reaches more than 89,000 disabled professionals every week, and the advocate whose company exists to make information accessible, he puts Adams’s central claim, that hiring people with disabilities isn’t charity but a measurable competitive advantage, on the bench and pulls it apart.