Vision Australia has joined calls for the Australian Government to include initiatives in the 2017 Budget to increase the participation of people with disability in the Australian Public Service.
Mary Dillon has received assistance to access My Aged Care via Vision Australia.
Since walking into VAR less than two years ago with no knowledge about how a radio station works, Sandy Harris is now a regular behind the microphone and at the editing panel as she helps produce and host numerous shows from the Adelaide studio each week.
She has been a long-time supporter of Seeing Eye Dogs Australia (SEDA), but Suzanne Hopkins never envisaged herself as the jack-of-all trades volunteer she has become.
Each week Keith Rutherford draws on his own experiences living with low vision to help other Vision Australia clients to get the most out of technology.
It might have been a case of the right place at the right time in the beginning, but Peter Greco has become an integral part of Vision Australia Radio (VAR) over the past 25 years.
As National Volunteer Week begins, Vision Australia is set to embark on an extended period of celebration in recognition of those who give up their time each year to support the blind and low vision community.
Even the most common daily tasks could soon be off limits to people from the blind and low vision community unless serious accessibility improvements are made to touchscreen devices.
Vision Australia is hosting a fundraiser, Dinner in the Dark, that aims to educate the sighted community about the challenges for people who are blind or have low vision face when eating out.