Access to Information Services
Our mission is to connect individuals to the visual world they live in by providing access to the printed word.
AIS Programs and Services
AIS Radio
Effective January 1, 2010, our Radio Reading Service program will cease operations. However, we are committed to finding solutions for each individual who contacts us to say they will miss valuable information as the result of the broadcast closure.
Nearly everything that AIS Radio broadcast, local papers included, is available through Newsline, and the IAAIS maintains a comprehensive list of, and links to, all audio information services with web sites.
For more resources check out Accessible Reading.
That said, the Access to Information Services department is not going away. We'll continue to record for clients and customers, offer TV listings and shopping ads by phone, and beginning in early 2010, be producing podcasts on topics of special interest to the blind and visually impaired community.
Television Listings and Shopping Ads
Listen to TV listings and shopping ads by phone! To listen to shopping ads, dial 415-294-3623. To hear TV listings, dial 415-294-3624.
Alternative Formats
Braille Translation and Audio Recording are provided to LightHouse clients, businesses, nonprofit and government agencies. Designed to address gaps left by national recording services such as the Library of Congress and Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, volunteers record print materials provided by Lighthouse clients. Typical client requests include appliance owner's manuals, classroom handouts, magazine articles, etc.
www.lighthouse-sf.org
The LightHouse website is an access to information tool for the community we serve – telling who we are, where we are and what we do. Visitors may peruse descriptions of all our programs and services; access current class schedules; browse Adaptations - the LightHouse store; read The Lantern, our newsletter; and find information on blindness and low vision.
