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What is IRIS?
Founded in 1982, Indiana Reading and Information Services (IRIS) is an around-the-clock communications link for the print-impaired. More...
Who Uses IRIS?
Persons who cannot read normal print due to blindness, low vision, physical impairments, learning disorders or illiteracy keep in touch with local news and information as presented by IRIS volunteer readers.
IRIS Supporters
Partial funding for IRIS comes from the Cable Franchise Board/City of Indianapolis, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Guidant and an annual membership effort.
Every day, IRIS broadcasts the regional newspapers and many other Indianapolis publications. Listeners are provided with special radio receivers FREE of charge to use as long as they are needed. One must live within 45 miles of Indianapolis to receive the broadcasts and there is an application requiring medical or social certification of print impairment.
Partial funding for IRIS comes from the Cable Franchise Board/City of Indianapolis, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, and an annual membership effort.
Nina Mason Pulliam Statewide Dial-Up
Persons with print-impairments who live anywhere in the state of Indiana can access the Nina Mason Pulliam Statewide Dial-Up and hear sections of the Indianapolis Star read by IRIS volunteers via a telephone voice message system. All you need is a touch tone phone and there is even toll-free access available for those who live outside of the Indianapolis calling area. More than 1,000 calls are received each month! Each listener is assigned a private password enabling access to the system. Just follow the voice prompts to hear the front page, TV listings, sports, obituaries, columns or selected store sale advertisements.
Medical or Social Certification of Print Impairment is Required. Contact awortman@wfyi.org for more information.
IRIS is made possible in part by Guidant.
Funding for the Nina Mason Pulliam Statewide Dial-Up is provided by the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
IRIS Home Dial-Up
Service Listener
Application
Volunteer Application Reading
Schedule
Enhanced IRIS site WFYI