Making every document an accessible document
October 19th – The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is jointly hosting the General Assembly of the International Council on English Braille (ICEB) with UKAAF (UK Association for Accessible Formats) from 18 – 22 October.
The Assembly was originally scheduled to be held at the Google Academy in London in May but had to …
COVID’s been tough for us all, but it’s been even more so for the disabled, vulnerable and the blind. The difficulties faced by people who are blind and visually impaired as they adapt to a world of social distancing, have not been widely understood, as often these guys are just so stoic they don’t want …
Back at the start of the year, we were busy promoting UKAAF’s upcoming Annual General Meeting but ‘you know what’ rendered that impossible so we decided in the end to go ahead and do this on Zoom, which was certainly the first time I’d been at an AGM this way.
We had about 30 people successfully …
I’ve been really concerned about the impact of the global Pandemic on the more vulnerable, especially the partially-sighted or blind community that UKAAF was set up to help support in terms of accessibility. And when I opened a recent article in The New Yorker that dared ask the question playing at the back of my mind… I knew I …