Blogs – Page 33 – LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Flattening the curve graph, two curves increasing and decreasing along x-axis, with braille labels.

What does Flattening the Curve look like?

04/30/2021/in Touching the News/by Naomi Rosenberg

Title: Flattening the Curve. Description: Graph with three lines, x-axis label: Time since first case, y-axis label: Daily number of cases. The first line is a tall curve labeled “Cases...

Access Technology director Erin Lauridsen standing outside LightHouse headquarters with her guide dog Kendall

Has your company made plans for Global Accessibility Awareness Day?

04/22/2021/in LightHouse News/by Sarika Dagar

Save yourself some stress and some money and Learn about real-world accessibility with the LightHouse – San Francisco Did you know Thursday, May 20, 2021, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day? Would you like...

The cover of the LightHouse 2020 Annual Report. LightHouse employees on Zoom hold up pieces of paper spelling out “Thank You” in English, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Polish, Russian, French, and Braille. Staffer Sook Hee Choi signs “Thank You” in American Sign Language

The LightHouse 2020 LightHouse Annual Report is Here

04/21/2021/in LightHouse News/by Caitlin O'Malior

2020 was a highly unusual year for everyone around the world. Despite such unprecedented circumstances, we are proud to present the 2020 Annual Report, documenting how LightHouse supported the blind community through...

A Zoom image of Chris rowing with the English Channel as a virtual background

Did Chris Downey make it across the English Channel?

04/21/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

Last Saturday, April 17, LightHouse held its annual Cycle for Sight fundraiser for Enchanted Hills Camp (EHC). After cancelling Cycle for Sight in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were thrilled...

The SFMTA Safety — It’s Your Turn graphic in English, Spanish and Chinese

Participants Get the Feel of Streets of San Francisco at SFMTA Sponsored Workshop

04/21/2021/in LightHouse News/by Caitlin O'Malior

On April 8, LightHouse, in partnership with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), held a second Tactile Intersections Workshop to promote the citywide campaign Safety—It’s Your Turn. The...

A tactile map with braille of the shipping route using the Suez Canal and an alternate route around Cape of Good Hope

LightHouse Introduces “Touching the News”

04/21/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

Have you ever been reading a news item or watching it on TV, and thought to yourself: “I wonder what that picture is?” Ever witnessed a meme on social media...

LightHouse Staff Shares Her Experience Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine at LightHouse

04/14/2021/in LightHouse News/by Caitlin O'Malior

As I hopped out of my Lyft at 7th and Market Street and turned the corner toward the LightHouse headquarters in San Francisco, I was hit with a wave of...

Chris Downey in a rowboat. Photo by Doug Olson, photographer

Chris Downey Rows His Own Cycle for Sight

04/13/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

Chris Downey, immediate past Chair of the LightHouse board and renowned blind architect, is a bike rider. He has ridden as part of Team Enchanted Hills in Cycle for Sight,...

Pure Bioscience and LightHouse Win FAA Approval

03/24/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

PURE Bioscience and LightHouse announce the approval and use of PURE Hard Surface sanitizer and disinfectant by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Succeeding a vetting process which took several weeks...

LightHouse in Solidarity with AAPI

03/24/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

By Mario Burton, Director of People and Culture Hate crime attacks on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community have grown over the last year both at the local...