Opinion pieces

An innovative toolbar that revolutionises the ease and speed of creating accessible documents in Microsoft Word has been launched, on International Day of People with Disability.

For 78 years, people have been gathering in Melbourne to sing carols on Christmas Eve at Vision Australia's Carols by Candlelight. The money it raises goes towards Vision Australia's Children's Services. Tickets are currently on sale now from Ticketmaster.

Vision Australia client and advocate, 15-year-old Connor McLeod, jointly won the Emerging Leader in Disability Awareness Award for campaigning for the introduction of tactile features on Australian banknotes.

With early voting now underway, voters who are blind or have low vision can register to access a telephone voting service for the 2015 North Sydney by-election.

Has Braille been left behind in this digital age? Have smartphones and tablets replaced this old-fashioned reading and writing tool? I, an avid and passionate braille user, am here to assure you that braille is not only just as important as it ever was, but that it has kept up with developments in technology and even enhances it.

Vision Australia has today announced Woolworths as its new Carols by Candlelight presenting partner for 2015.

Max’s family have high hopes for his future, but there are many other children who will need our help in the coming year.

Vision Australia is celebrating another advocacy success with the Queensland Government’s announcement of the introduction of an upgraded permanent go access Vision Impairment Travel Pass (VITP).

Vision Australia Connect, our newest app, is now available.

Congratulations to Maryanne Diamond for being selected as the winner of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind’s Dayton Forman Award for 2015.