Staff and volunteers of three nonprofits recently gathered together Thursday evening to celebrate their unique collaboration to bring words to life for people who are blind or cannot read due to other disabilities at the New England Carousel Museum (NECM). Read more.
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CRISAccess Launches @ Carousel Museum
New England Carousel Museum
Dropping off QR codes at The New England Carousel Museum for installation. What a great place! CRIS Featured with Stubby
CRISAccess is featured alongside Stubby in this month's Connector, the newsletter of the Connecticut State Library. Click HERE find out how CRIS is helping to bring Connecticut history alive. Saturdays with Steve Parker
CRIS volunteer Steve Parker interviews CRIS Executive Director Diane Weaver Dunne during his day job at WTIC. You can hear the interview HERE.
Windsor Journal on Twain Launch
Windsor Journal Feb 2, 2018
CRIS Radio and the Mark Twain House & Museum are working together to offer visitors with low-vision or other print disabilities a new way to access selected artifacts on exhibit at the museum. Read more.
CRISAccess @ Twain House
The Mark Twain House and Museum and CRISAccess have teamed up to provide additional accessibility to the Hartford bard’s old digs. Audio recorded by CRIS volunteers now reads signs from the museum for people with smart devices.
NBMAA, CRIS Installs QR Codes
Hartford Courant Nov 17, 2017
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Now because of a collaboration between NBMAA and CRIS Radio, visitors also can use a QR code and their cellphones to hear a brief description of Benton and an analysis of one of the paintings — “Arts of the City” — and the time in which it was painted.
Museum Launch: New Britain!
CRISACCESS launches @ New Britain Museum of American Art with audio descriptions of exhibits making them accessible to people with print disabilities. Jonathan’s Dream Launches w/CRISAccess
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