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Working with Blind and Partially-sighted Colleagues

Sometimes it can be difficult to understand how someone with sight loss is able to do certain things in the workplace, for example, read documents or share written information. What do you do if you want to ask someone about their sight loss, but don’t want to offend? How can you better understand how a … More

Welcoming Your Blind and Partially Sighted Customers

By RNIB

We have written this fact sheet especially for the tourist industry to give a better understanding of how to make holiday services more accessible to blind and partially sighted customers.

Understanding the Needs of Blind and Partially Sighted People

By RNIB

Understanding the Needs of Blind and Partially Sighted People: their experiences, perspectives, and expectations.

Inclusion Traffic Light System

By Peter Bates, NDTI (National Development Team for Inclusion)

Framework to show different levels of inclusivity for people with disabilities in social settings, with a view to improving opportunities and training care providers to think differently about outreach

An Accessible Arts Marketing Guide

By Shape Arts

Explore 20 simple ways to make your marketing more accessible. Accessibility most directly helps disabled and older people but, in fact, all audiences benefit from inclusive design: people watching videos on noisy trains need subtitles, simple use of English helps those who don’t use it as their first language, and clear design aids readability for … More

Accessible Communication Formats

By GOV UK

To reach all your audience, you need to make effective use of accessible communication formats (also known as alternative formats). A guide to developing and reviewing strategy for producing information in accessible formats.

Guidance on Making Websites Accessible

By WAI

When websites and web tools are properly designed and coded, people with disabilities can use them. However, currently many sites and tools are developed with accessibility barriers that make them difficult or impossible for some people to use. Making the web accessible benefits individuals, businesses, and society. International web standards define what is needed for … More

Equality Act 2010: guidance

By GOV UK

Information and guidance on the Equality Act 2010, including age discrimination and public sector Equality Duty.

Guiding a Blind or Partially Sighted Person

By RNIB

Practical advice and information to help you feel confident about guiding people with sight problems. A how-to-guide to support meeting, greeting and guiding.

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Stats

One in two people aged 90 and over are living with sight loss.
Nearly two-thirds of people living with sight loss are women.
People from black and minority ethnic communities are at greater risk of some of the leading causes of sight loss.
Adults with learning disabilities are 10 times more likely to be blind or partially sighted than the general population.
Only 17 per cent of registered blind and partially sighted people were offered any form of emotional support at the time of diagnosis.
In the year after registration, less than 30 per cent of people who lost their sight say they were offered mobility training to help them get around independently.
Almost half of blind and partially sighted people feel ‘moderately’ or ‘completely’ cut off from people and things around them.
Older people with sight loss are almost three times more likely to experience depression than people with good vision.
Only one in four registered blind and partially sighted people of working age are in employment.^[1]

^[1] RNIB

Organisations

Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UK’s leading charity supporting blind and partially sighted people.

Vocal Eyes provide opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to experience the arts at UK’s theatres, museums, galleries and heritage sites.

Scope exists to make this country a place where disabled people have the same opportunities as everyone else.

LOOK-UK supports young people and families living with a vision impairment.

CVI Society is a UK charity that raises awareness of Cerebral Visual Impairment providing education and support to families and healthcare professionals.

VICTA supports children and young people who are blind or partially sighted and their families across the UK.