VOICEcorps reading service

11/29/2025

This year is flying by! Thanksgiving and Black Friday are already behind us and Giving Tuesday is now only 4 days away! ❗❗❗

Keep VOICEcorps in mind while you are planning your holiday gifts and donations. VOICEcorps provides audio access for FREE to thousands of Ohioans with print disabilities. We are 50 years strong, and your generous donation will help keep us on the air for decades to come! 💙

💙Visit here to learn more about us ➡https://voicecorps.org/about/
💙Visit here to support us➡ https://tinyurl.com/VCgivingtuesday25

11/28/2025

VOICEcorps had a little helper today!

"Z" acted as our own personal office elf, helping around the studios and learning all about VOICEcorps! 💙

Future volunteer? 🙂

11/28/2025

Not only is it Black Friday, but we are just 5 days away from Giving Tuesday! 😮

Tuesday, December 2nd is Giving Tuesday, a great opportunity for you to show your support for VOICEcorps and to help ensure we are able to maintain our reading service for those who are blind, have low vision or who have any kind of print disability. 📖

Please consider showing your support TODAY while you are doing your online shopping! 💻🛒

Click the link on the graphic or click below ⬇
https://tinyurl.com/VCgivingtuesday25

11/27/2025

“Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”- Amy Grant 🧡

VOICEcorps wants to wish you and your loved ones a wonderful Thanksgiving! 🦃 While our studios are closed, we have special programming throughout the day.

We start at 7AM with American Heritage: the early colonists. At 10AM we are airing American Heritage: Thanksgiving readings. Tune in at 1PM for a fun Airwaves show on famous Thanksgiving TV shows. We end our Thanksgiving offerings at 4PM with a 2-hour Bill Cooper Thanksgiving Special. ⭐

Listen in on our website or tell Alexa to play VOICEcorps on your smart speaker!
🦃➡https://voicecorps.org/listen/ ⬅🦃

11/27/2025

We are bombarded with advertisements from the time we wake up to the time we finally stop doom-scrolling on social media platforms before we fall asleep.😴Interestingly, advertisers seem to be missing large populations of people with disabilities, underestimating and overlooking the economic impact they have.

Two of Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences professors discuss the word-heavy advertisements that folks with vision loss and vision impairment are typically subjected to and how they really aren’t the most effective way to reach print disabled consumers. 🙅

Access to information (whether it be news, books, or even grocery ads) is key in helping to restore independence for those with a print disability. If you are a listener, be sure to click below to check out our programming schedule so you know when to tune in to get the information you need!
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http://voicecorps.org/programming/

MSU researchers explore how advertisers can design more inclusive, accessible ads for blind and visually impaired consumers using purposive audio descriptions.

11/26/2025

Traveling for the holidays can be stressful and trying to find the best flights and even the best hotels to stay in can be challenging, especially if you experience low vision or blindness. However, there is some good news for anyone thinking of booking with the Hilton family hotels! 🤗

Hilton is partnering with the app Be My Eyes which uses volunteers and AI to help people with visual disabilities. Specifically with Hilton properties, the app will connect hotel guests with trained customer care employees to help navigate features of the hotel and in their rooms. 🏨

Doubletree and Hampton by Hilton among other hotels in the Hilton family are included. Click the article and/or visit the Hilton website for information on this offering.

VOICEcorps invites anyone with low vision, no vision, dyslexia, MS, Parkinsons and many other print disabilities to use our service.
Find out how to listen here ➡https://voicecorps.org/listen/

One of the biggest names in the hotel industry is taking new steps to make its properties easier to navigate for people with disabilities.

11/25/2025

VOICEcorps listeners, log in to that Netflix account of yours (when you aren't listening to VOICEcorps...😏)

Just in time for the holidays, Netflix has added some new AD titles! 🥳

Click the link in the article for the full audio descriptive collection offered by Netflix.

Netflix Fans: Check out new titles with Audio Description!

A Merry Little Ex-Mas [2025 Movie, rated TV-PG, Romance]
A Royal Date for Christmas [2023 Movie, rated TV-G, Romance]
Being Eddie [2025 Movie, rated R, Documentary]
Firestarter [2022 Movie, rated R, Horror]
Harriet [2019 Movie, rated PG-13, Drama]
In Your Dreams [2025 Movie, rated PG, Kids & Family]
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life [2025 Movie, rated R, Romance]
MARINES [2025 Series, rated TV-MA, Documentary]
No Sleep 'Til Christmas [2018 Movie, rated TV-14, Comedy]
NOUVELLE VAGUE [2025 Movie, rated R, Comedy]
Orphan Black: Echoes [2023 Series, rated TV-MA, Sci-Fi]
Sesame Street [2025 Series, rated TV-Y, Kids & Family]
The Beast in Me [2025 Series, rated TV-MA, Thriller]

https://adp.acb.org/adp-search?provider_filter%5Bnetflix%5D=netflix

11/25/2025

The more you know: The wear and tear on an astronaut’s body has been, and continues to be, extensively studied. Space travel takes a toll on an astronaut’s muscles, bones, and even their eyesight. 👨‍🚀

According to this article written by Carter Lou and Kimberly Mann Bruch of University of California San Diego, “In 2017, scientists first used the name Spaceflight Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome (SANS) to describe this vision degradation caused by space flights.” There is now an effort being made to predict who might be more at risk of experiencing visual changes, and even vision loss, after space travel. This research is being supported by NASA. 🌌

We at VOICEcorps believe that it’s very important to focus on visual changes you may be experiencing, whether or not you are an astronaut. 😉 If you or anyone in your life has found it difficult to access information due to vision loss, please visit our website for ways to get in touch with us!
⭐https://voicecorps.org/ ⭐

Scientists have carefully studied the effects of space and microgravity on astronauts. One truth is certain: space is brutal on the human body. Muscles atrophy, bones lose mass, limbs stretch and — more unknown — eyesight can degrade in ways not yet fully understood.

11/24/2025

The countdown to Giving Tuesday has officially begun! 💙

While you are preparing for Thanksgiving festivities and Black Friday sales, be sure to keep VOICEcorps in mind! Support us today so that we may continue to support our print disabled listeners with our 24/7 365 broadcast service! 😃

Visit here to give early! ⬇️ https://voicecorps-bloom.kindful.com/?campaign=1391723

11/24/2025

Need something to do next weekend that has a classic holiday feel? 🎄

CAPA will present their take on “A Christmas Carol” on Sunday, November 30th at 2PM at the beautiful Ohio Theatre. The best part? Audio Descriptions will be available at this showing! 🗣

You can purchase tickets on their website www.capa.com or in person at the Ohio Theatre located at 39 E. State Street. 🎫

VOICEcorps believes in equity and access for all, and we will continue to update our listeners on these great entertainment opportunities happening around the city on- air and on our social media pages!

Visit our website to learn all things VOICEcorps: how to listen, how to volunteer, and ways to support us. 💙 https://voicecorps.org/ 💙

November 28–30, 2025 Buy Tickets Plan Your Visit A beloved Columbus holiday tradition returns for 2025, as CAPA presents A Christmas Carol live on stage in the…

11/21/2025

The wild and wonderful: Mice, eyedrops, and RP are three things that don’t immediately seem connected. However, researchers at the NIH (National Institute of Health) have developed an eye drop they then tested on mice that has shown great promise in treating RP. 🐭

What is RP? It is actually a group of diseases that negatively affect the retina. The mice being treated with this short peptide containing eye drop have a condition similar to RP. The researchers note that this is not a cure, but has slowed the cell loss and vision decline substantially. With more research, these drops may one day be used to treat RP patients. 👀

For more health and wellness news, be sure to tune in to VOICEcorps on Fridays at 12:30PM for our “Here’s to Health” program!

What else is on VOICEcorps? 🤔 ⬇
https://voicecorps.org/programming/schedule/

Treatment shows potential to slow the progression of human degenerative eye diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa.

11/20/2025

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: We are all about reading here at VOICEcorps (we are a reading service after all) 😅 and would love to know what books you are currently reading! Are you up on the latest releases, sticking to the classics, or enjoy a mix of both? Are you more of an audio book kind of guy or gal? Let us know down below! 📚⤵
VOICEcorps incredible volunteers donate their time every week to read books of all genres for our listeners to enjoy. Get cozy, grab a warm drink and tune in to VOICEcorps on our website or on your Alexa smart speaker!

Listen 👂 https://voicecorps.org/listen/
Volunteer 👋 https://voicecorps.org/get-involved/volunteer/
Support us 💙 https://voicecorps.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/