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Celebrating World Braille Day

It took Louis Braille nine years to develop the tactile reading and writing system that bears his name centuries later.

A guide to canes and cane tips

The white cane has become a symbol of blindness and low vision. A lesser known fact about it, however, is that there are a variety of them, intended for a variety of situations. This extends to cane tips too, with a number of different tips available for people, depending on terrain, technique and more.

Telelink summer webinars are back in 2023

Three exciting speakers have been lined up to lead our summer webinar series for 2023.

November's top 10 reads from the Vision Australia Library

The Vision Australia Library is back again with its members’ most downloaded books in November! Genres include fantasy, historical fiction, mystery and thriller, autobiography, and more.

This week on Talking Vision: Celebrating International Day of Peo...

Talking Vision is Vision Australia Radio’s flagship program, discussing the latest news and issues from a blindness and low vision perspective. It’s a special episode of Talking Vision this week, as we celebrate International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD) on December 3.

Gabriel's advocacy efforts earn him the 2022 Vision Australia You...

Gabriel Gervasoni's incredible passion and efforts to support the blind and low vision community have seen him awarded Vision Australia's Youth Award for 2022.

Accessible Santa mail is back for 2022!

Australia Post is assisting Santa by enabling children to write him letters, and helping his responses get back to them in accessible formats.

This week on Talking Vision: Speak My Language podcast series

Talking Vision is Vision Australia Radio’s flagship program, discussing the latest news and issues from a blindness and low vision perspective. Sam is joined this week on the program by Loc Tang, a participant in Speak My Language, an online podcast series which features hundreds of Australians with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Swinburne journalism students to host live state election broadca...

Swinburne University of Technology students will be reporting on the Victorian state election with a live radio broadcast on Saturday 26 November. Journalism students will host the broadcast on the Vision Australia Radio network across Victoria including on the digital radio station IRIS in Melbourne.

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