In this episode, Aaron and Tony welcome AFB's new manager for outreach and community engagement, Haley Linville.

This fall, AFB marks 25 years in West Virginia, which served for many years as the home for AFB Tech and continues to be the home of AccessWorld Magazine. They reflect on how Huntington continues to punch above its wait for a small city along the Ohio River, and discuss the rise of tech in the region anchored out of Marshall University. Tony learns the expression "Silicon Holler," which AFB is proud to have supported over the past 25 years.

They share details on the upcoming season for both internship opportunities through the Digital Accessibility Bootcamp and the AFB Scholars Program. Applications for the bootcamp opened up on Oct. 5th, and you can visit www.afb.org/internships to learn more on how to apply.

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In this episode of AccessWorld, a podcast on digital inclusion and accessibility, Aaron and Tony sit down with Sriram Ganesh, CEO and developer of the AI app Lumin. Lumin offers a voice controlled solution for managing your inbox and calendar. It offers a hands-free way to tackle that cluttered inbox, and was born out of Sriram's own lived needs for greater accessibility after losing his sight to cone-rod dystrophy.

Sriram shares how his love for video games and past success as an AI developer lead him to creating such a user friendly approach toward bringing together multiple AI models into an app that focuses on making the user experience as simple as possible. (Note: there are a couple moments of brief silence as they demo the app in-between AI responses, so don't worry, it's not your headphones.)

You can learn more about the app at www.trylumin.ai.

Aaron also shares what's in the latest issue of AccessWorld Magazine, which dropped last week. You can check it out at www.afb.org/AW.

AccessWorld is a production of AFB Studios at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). Feel free to like and subscribe to the podcast, and even consider visiting our site to make a donation to support our work creating a world of endless possibilities for people who are blind or have low vision.

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In this episode of AccessWorld, Tony and Aaron welcome Dr Arielle Silverman and Sarah Malaier from AFB's Public Policy and Research Institute (PPRI). Dr. Silverman is the Director of Research at AFB, and Malaier is the Senior Advisor for Public Policy & Research. They share the latest report released from AFB as part of its series on AI attitudes and perceptions. This report focuses on AI and assistive technology.

To access the report and other reports in the series, visit: https://afb.org/AIResearch2

To vote on AFB's AI related panels for the South By Southwest Conference this spring in Austin, visit: https://afb.org/VoteSXSW27

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