Sun Sounds of Arizona is a nonprofit organization doing business in the Greater Phoenix area. I posed ten questions to a representative of Sun Sounds of Arizona in an effort to familiarize Phoenix area residents with the organization. Here are the responses I received.
What is the name of the organization?
Sun Sounds of Arizona (a radio reading and information access service)How long has the organization been operating in the Phoenix area?
Since October 1979Does the organization serve a particular geographic area?
Sun Sounds serves the entire state of Arizona.Who is most likely to benefit from services provided by the organization?
Anyone who cannot use printed material because of a disability. This includes people with vision loss, cognitive impairments, and even arthritis that makes holding a book or turning pages painful.Are there requirements or prerequisites for people to access your services?
Anyone can access Sun Sounds’ broadcast at sunsounds.org. Eligible listeners (those with print-disability) can receive a special radio at no charge.Three things about Sun Sounds of Arizona that people might not know.
- Sun Sounds partners with Clean Elections during Election season to provide voter information.
- Sun Sounds telephone system, “Sun Dial,” provides access to the radio broadcast and archived programs via a touch-tone telephone – and a way to surf text-to-speech websites like nytimes.com.
- Sun Sounds serves 49,000 Arizonans from broadcast studios in Flagstaff, Tempe and Tucson. It takes 500 volunteer readers to produce all the content for a 24-hour radio station!
