Opinion pieces

Kangaroo Flat and South Bendigo under-18 boys football teams will face off once again this weekend to support people who are blind or have low vision.

Applications for the 2020 Vision Australia Further Education Bursaries are now open.

Vision Australia has enjoyed a long association with the National Braille Music Camp (NBMC), held each year in June at Frensham School, Mittagong.

The business case for more diversity in the workplace is becoming evident. A recent study from the Boston Consulting Group study found that companies with more diversity in their management teams reported revenue from innovation that was 19% higher than companies with below-average leadership diversity.

Portable document format files, or PDFs, are as much a part of our lives as the internet itself. Sometimes they cop a bit of flak for being inaccessible, when in reality, if they are tagged correctly they can meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

We are living in a golden age of assistive technology for people with vision loss. With advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence there are now apps using image recognition technology that can describe people, objects and the physical environment.

Parts of the Web Content Accessibility Guideline 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) can be difficult to understand, especially if you're rapidly trying to get your head around it and apply it before your website or article is launched to the public.

A group of Vision Australia clients recently got busy in the kitchen thanks to a cooking masterclass with Chef Daniel. Held at Chef Daniel's At Baker Street restaurant in Gosford, the TV personality chef provided clients with a range of different tips to help them overcome the challenges that living with blindness or low vision can pose to being active and independent in the kitchen.

Children aged eight to 12 years old who are blind or have low vision took part in an exciting school holiday program run by Vision Australia in Melbourne.

When Geraldine lost her vision, she initially felt as if all of life’s doors had closed on her. But, as the saying goes; when one door closes, another opens. And for Geraldine, life is full of open doors.