Opinion pieces

West Australian Vision Australia clients now have access to the latest assistive technology - and the chance to try before they buy - through the Independent Living Centre WA.

Welcome to another Best of the Web - a selection of stories, news and information about blindness and low vision from across the World Wide Web.

As a blind kid, I never imagined that technology would one day threaten to block my participation in the world.

Telelink clients have had a taste of the great Australian outdoors and how to incorporate that into their day-to-day cooking thanks to bush tucker man Vic Cherikoff.

It’s the conversations that keep Bendigo man Colin Magee volunteering for Vision Australia.

Vision Australia has joined calls for the Australian Government to include initiatives in the 2017 Budget to increase the participation of people with disability in the Australian Public Service.

Mary Dillon has received assistance to access My Aged Care via Vision Australia.

Since walking into VAR less than two years ago with no knowledge about how a radio station works, Sandy Harris is now a regular behind the microphone and at the editing panel as she helps produce and host numerous shows from the Adelaide studio each week.

She has been a long-time supporter of Seeing Eye Dogs Australia (SEDA), but Suzanne Hopkins never envisaged herself as the jack-of-all trades volunteer she has become.

Each week Keith Rutherford draws on his own experiences living with low vision to help other Vision Australia clients to get the most out of technology.