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For students who may be low vision or blind, learning about the eclipse has to include accessible materials, like tactile images. Last week, Reporter Holly Kirkpatrick visited Williamsville Central Schools to speak to Gail Vaughan, the district's teacher for students with vision disabilities and Mark Percy, the district’s planetarium director about the need for more accessible eclipse education materials and how they developed their curriculum.
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WBFO’s Disability Reporter Emyle Watkins speaks with Thomas Ess, the Vice President for Emergency Management at People Inc, a disability-services agency in Western New York. We discuss why plain language communication matters, how organizations have adapted existing materials for the people they serve, as well as how the eclipse is changing operations for group homes and programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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WXXI's Scott Fybush was fortunate enough to travel to the total solar eclipse in 2017. In part 3 of our series, "What to Expect When You're Expecting an Eclipse," he explains the difference between totality - and absolutely anything else.
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New York state’s weather monitoring and data collection system has launched a website to provide access to real time weather information and photos during the April 8th total solar eclipse.
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WXXI's Scott Fybush was fortunate enough to travel to the total solar eclipse in 2017. In part 2 of our series, "What to Expect When You're Expecting an Eclipse," he shares the difference between a "me" eclipse and a "we" eclipse
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Tonight, the sky will be busy with a penumbral eclipse, a Jupiter and Mercury sighting, a comet, and possibly the Northern Lights.
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The upcoming solar eclipse, which is occurring in two weeks, will be fully visible in 29 counties in western and northern New York and at least 88% visible in the rest of the state.
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A list of events and locations in Western New York and Southern Ontario where you can experience the Solar Eclipse.
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Join 1 million other eclipse viewers and help NASA photograph the eclipse.