News & Updates
Walking blind in Sebastopol
This is how rumors get started: last week hundreds of people driving through downtown Sebastopol saw councilmember Michael Carnacchi walking down the sidewalk with a long white cane tap, tap, tapping ahead of him. When he came to a busy intersection, a companion took...
KSRO Interview Brew Ha Ha podcast
KSRO radio hosts Steve Jaxon and Mark Carpenter interview with Earle Baum Center in September 2018. Martin Voigt, the only beer blogger in Austria, is our first guest today, and Dr. Hoby Wedler is also here, together with Bob Sonnenberg and Jeff Harrington from the...
Earle Baum Center opens new labyrinth
Lake County News, California, October 1 2018 SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Featuring gentle looping spiral paths specially designed for people with vision loss and mobility challenges but fun for all ages, the new labyrinth at the Earle Baum Center celebrated its grand opening...
In the fire-scarred Wine Country, new help for the blind in disasters
The San Francisco Chronicle June 3 2018 / Reporter Lizzie Johnson / Photo credit to Jessica Christian. The classroom was full of students, all of them blind or visually impaired. Their canes were propped in the corner, their guide dogs asleep under a table. It was...
Ballot Booth Breakthrough
KENT PORTER / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Jeff Harrington, Earl Baum Center's Director of Facilities and Technology, tries a voting machine from Hart InterCivic of Austin, Texas, on Thursday during a demonstration of new voting technology at the Santa Rosa Veterans Hall....
Hulu: Audio Description & Screen Reader Access
Disability Rights Advocates is investigating complaints from blind individuals who report that the Hulu website and mobile applications are not accessible, and from blind individuals who want audio description tracks to be made available on Hulu. We would greatly...
Owner of Santa Rosa’s Morris Heating and Sheet Metal overcomes blindness
JAMES DUNN / NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL MARCH 20 2017 John Morris can see quite well - just not with his eyes. The owner of John Morris Heating and Sheet Metal in Santa Rosa routinely beats out competitors for duct work on construction projects in Sonoma County and...
How gene therapy can fight blindness
MAX SAVAGE LEVENSON / HOLMAN PRIZE COORDINATOR Greetings! I'm writing to let you know that submissions for the Holman Prize, LightHouse for the Blind's annual series of three $25,000 award for blind adventurers and creators, are just around the corner! Submissions...