Live rooms where accessibility work happens.
ACB Events is a working archive of streamed gatherings connected to blind and low vision advocacy. Its episodes carry the texture of live rooms: roll calls, standing rules, banquet prayers, panels, award clips, and candid convention business.
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ACB Events functions as a living record of gatherings streamed through ACB Media. The feed captures rooms where blind and low vision advocacy is conducted in public, with all the formalities and side remarks that come with real meetings. It is not built around one central host. Instead, the microphone passes among board members, presenters, award chairs, committee leaders, gala hosts, and attendees. Some episodes are deeply procedural. RSVA sessions move through introductions, attendance, minutes, legislation, fundraising, awards, and business training. A panel on innovative business in the BEP Program arena brings in company stories, vendor relationships, and practical services. State convention recordings have a different atmosphere. The California Council of the Blind opening session begins with disclaimers, thanks to streamers, technical housekeeping, and standing rules before the weekend’s work begins. Florida Council of the Blind banquet audio mixes prayer, awards, scholarships, head table introductions, and affectionate room humor. Iowa convention recordings catch the looser end of community life, including door prizes, quiz questions, and presentations shaped by lived experience. Stacey Cervanka’s talk, for example, connects personal vision history with misconceptions about blindness, public education, consumer organizations, and department goals. The audio description episodes add a broader media-access thread. The awards gala material includes described visuals, award recognition, nominee clips, industry acknowledgments, and credits for the people and partners behind accessible media. A preview episode gives more context on the Audio Description Project, its committees, its directory of described titles, and the work of making description consistent and high quality. Across the feed, the style is direct, live, and lightly messy in the way public events often are. That messiness is part of the evidence. Listeners hear not just polished outcomes, but the mechanics of inclusion: remote attendance, streaming acknowledgments, access codes, rules, recognitions, and shared institutional memory. ACB Events is strongest for people who want proximity to the organizing work itself. It offers civic texture, community continuity, and a front-row seat to advocacy in motion.
Made for: For listeners interested in blind and low vision advocacy, accessibility policy, audio description, council conventions, and community governance. It also suits members who want to revisit streamed events or follow gatherings they could not attend live.
What sets it apart: The feed stands out because it preserves full live-event context rather than trimming everything into interview highlights. Its value comes from hearing the process: introductions, rules, awards, prayers, panels, technical notes, and unscripted community moments.
The ACB Events feed brings you events that have been streamed live on ACB Media.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A conversational gala preview that treats audio description as working infrastructure.
This conversational preview keeps its attention on the Audio Description Awards Gala, with Claire Stanley and Swartha Anandakumar in conversation with Tabitha Kenlan and Ali B. Ghori about the gala, the ADP, and the work that supports it.
A polished awards gala that makes audio description feel central, not auxiliary.
This gala episode treats audio description as both access work and a real craft, with attention on the awards, the honorees, and the gratitude that threads through the speeches.
Disability talk after the polite version ends.
Practical access, lived experience, real independence.
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Shankar Vedantam unpacks the psychology behind relationships, careers, and money through researcher interviews.
David McRaney interviews researchers on cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, and why minds change.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
The 2025 Audio Description Awards Gala, hosted by Allie B.
This episode is a participatory session where blind individuals share practical household management tips and tricks based on their lived experiences.
Stacey Cervanka introduces herself at the Iowa Council of the United Blind convention, sharing her personal background with optic nerve hypoplasia and her vision for the department while discussing misconceptions about blindness.
This episode features a lighthearted quiz about mammals that go through menopause during a convention presentation.
This episode is a preview for the 2024 ACB Audio Description Awards Gala, hosted on November 14th.
This episode records the opening of the 2026 RSVA board meeting in Las Vegas, where attendees introduce themselves and begin with administrative tasks like approving minutes.
This episode features a panel discussion at a business training conference where entrepreneurs from Dreamy Cookies and Her Food share their startup stories and involvement with the RSVA BEP program.
This episode is a recording of the Florida Council of the Blind Convention Awards and Scholarship Banquet, featuring opening remarks, a prayer, and introductions.
This is the opening session of the 2025 California Council of the Blind Conference and Convention, addressing technical setup, acknowledgments, and procedural rules.