Audio Description ... and Zombies!

[From the announcement e-mail by ACB]

This Sunday, October 31 is Halloween 2010! Celebrate the horrific holiday (as well as the passage of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act) with ACB Radio as the web-based radio station streams the full movie
Night of the Living Dead
(George Romero's original 1968 film)
completely audio described!

Tune in at 8:00 pm EDT at
http://www.acbradio.org/world
for the film with all of the classic film's spooky horror described in full by the
American Council of the Blind's
Audio Description Project.

Produced in collaboration with VITAC, the nation's largest captioning company, it's also available for free at VITAC's website:
http:// VITAC.COM - Night of the Living Dead
and on VITAC's YouTube channel:
VITAC - You Tube - Night of the Living Dead

Adding accessibility features to Echo Bazarre?

A week or so ago Alexx posted about
a Web game called Echo Bazaar
http://alexx-kay.livejournal.com/297897.html
and how he thought it could be made accessibile with relative ease.

I encourage blind readers interested in accessible games to follow the link to the game's forum and either add your comment or vote up Alexx' suggestion (I found this latter task to be kind of confusing myself but I did add my own comment to the thread's vote).

Also, don't bazaar and bizarre sound almost identical with a screen reader?

NASA internships for blind and disabled students

[From the announcement e-mail]

NASA is looking to increase the number of blind and disabled students, pursuing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers through our internship programs. We have a two-percent hiring goal. Students can
>apply between November 1 and February 1. They can register for an account and look for internships anytime at
http://intern.nasa.gov/ .
Internships run for ten weeks from May 31, 2011, through August 5, 2011.
( more information below cut )

News and information about braille

American Foundation for the Blind publishes a newsletter called Dots, and the fall issue recently came out
http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=6&TopicID=19&DocumentID=5348
which includes an article about prison braille transcription programs. As it turns out, one of the major providers of braille is prison programs which train inmates to become braille transcribers.

There is also a phone number regarding National Braille Press's program to provide free braille books to young blind children and their families.