Demystifying technology for blind or low vision users – Vision Australia
Vision Australia’s national assistive technology advisor David Woodbridge has helped thousands of people overcome their technology fears.
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Musician strikes the right chord with his new home – VisAbility
One of the biggest milestones in your life is buying your first home. For Richard, who has Fraser syndrome, it’s an achievement that means more than most. Richard has a rare recessive gene disorder, has just 6% vision and uses a hearing implant (a bone-anchored hearing aid). At 20-years-old, he’s bought an apartment with his […]
The impact of restoring sight – Fred Hollows Foundation
Being a teenager is tough at the best of times, but imagine navigating your way through your teen years while losing your sight to cataract. Alexcis is a 13-year-old boy from the island of Siargao in the Philippines. For two years, he had been going to school, only to sit in class and listen. With […]
CBM Australia Stories of Hope: Seta from Fiji
When he was growing up, Seta did not ever imagine he would one day experience life with a disability. At age 17, he suddenly lost his vision and everything changed. “The world became different to me. More unjust, more unwelcoming, unfriendly, excluding. I had to work twice if not three times as hard,” he says. […]
Global vision loss gender gap remains
As we mark International Women’s Day for 2021, it’s important to be reminded that around the globe, blindness and vision loss continues to impact women at greater rates than men. In industrialised countries this is largely because women live longer than men, but in non-industrialised settings, it is often because women do not get to […]
VisAbility becomes an accessible polling station
The VisAbility building in Victoria Park in Perth is one of seventy venues throughout WA to be selected as a voting station as well as an early voting centre in the WA state general election.
Celebrating 20 years of vision
World Sight Day is on Thursday 8 October, and we’re celebrating our 20th Anniversary. Vision 2020 Australia began in the year 2000, when key organisations from the eye health and vision care sector came together create a united, cooperative peak body to prevent avoidable blindness, enhance eye care delivery and better meet the needs of people […]
Australia’s Long Term National Health Plan
Australia’s Long Term National Health Plan was released in August 2019. Minister for Health, Greg Hunt launched the Plan with a speech at the National Press Club.
Blind Citizens Australia National Convention 2019
On the last weekend of March 2019, the Blind Citizens Australia Convention was held in Hobart, over 100 delegates attended in person, with another 115 from six countries tuning in via the live stream.
Close the Gap for Vision by 2020 National Conference 2019
Vision 2020 Australia Policy and Advocacy Adviser Che Stockley reflects on some of the personal journeys shared and key themes and strategies explored during the Close the Gap for Vision by 2020 National Conference 2019.
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