Thursday November 20, 2008
Donate to the Danijela Christmas appeal!
Help Danijela sing her little heart out.
Like most children, seven year old Danijela loves Christmas carols. Being blind since birth, Danijela relies on Vision Australia's braille training to read the lyrics and experience the joy of Christmas.
Your donation will help thousands of people who are blind or have low vision to live their lives to the full - people just like Danijela.
Vision Australia website is a web accessibility champion!
Vision Australia’s website is one of only two in the world to achieve the highest level of conformance to the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0).
On 3 November the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).announced that Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are now a Proposed Recommendation. This is the last stage in the approval process before they are signed off in early December.
Vision Australia has played an important role in this work. First as a member of the Working Group and, most recently, by trying to implement the new Guidelines before they become official.
A new era of service delivery for young people
Vision Australia has recently reviewed the role it will play in supporting children who are blind or have low vision as they grow and develop into young adults.
The review has taken into account our desire, as a national organisation, to offer a broad range of consistent services to as wide a group of children as possible, ensuring our limited resources can be focused on delivering the best possible outcomes for them.
