News Categories | Vision Australia. Blindness and low vision services

Australian marriage law postal plebiscite

Find out more about how people who are blind or have low vision can participate in the Australian marriage law postal plebiscite.

Best of the Web

Best stories on blindness and low vision community and culture from the world-wide-web.

Child services clients enjoy hands-on fire safety lesson

Sydney’s emergency services have visited leading blindness and low vision service provider Vision Australia this week to give young children living with vision loss an important and enjoyable lesson about safety and emergency procedures.

ACT Parliament needs to get on board with iVote

Vision Australia is keeping up the pressure for a truly accessible, secret, independent and verifiable voting system for people who are blind or have low vision in its latest submission to the Inquiry into the 2016 ACT Election.

Vision Australia officially opens its doors in Townsville

Vision Australia today officially opened its second North Queensland office in Townsville which features Australia’s first outdoor paediatric orientation and mobility facility.

Vision Australia joins Global Certified Accessible program

Vision Australia’s Accessible Information Solutions, in conjunction with Benetech (US), Dedicon (Holland), and the Royal National Institute of Blind People (UK), today announced Global Certified Accessible. The program is the first third-party ebook verification program for accessible content.

Changes to copyright law to kick-start global information exchange for print disability community

The last few barriers that have been blocking the Marrakesh Treaty from being implemented effectively in Australia have been removed with the passage of the Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill.

When training is accessible, everyone learns more

Vision Australia, in partnership with The Learning Hook and CoTe Software & Solutions, has won the 2017 Platinum Award for Best Accessibility in the LearnX Impact Awards for the development of a fully accessible suite of eLearning courses

Working at Vision Australia

If you are interested in working at Vision Australia you can view our current vacancies here on our website and keep up to date with new positions by registering for our alert.

Australian Government needs to get on board with accessible transport

Vision Australia has responded to an Inquiry by the Australian Government into public transport, ramping up pressure on them to make meaningful changes that improve ‘Whole of Journey’ public transport experiences across the nation.

Subscribe to News Categories