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5 easy ways to make your content more accessible this Pride month

Pride Month is celebrated in June every year as a tribute to the trailblazers involved in the Stonewall Riots. Whether your Pride Month includes hosting or attending events, sharing information online, or connecting with other community members, it's important to...

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Brinda’s journey – Volunteers Week

Vision Foundation wouldn’t be able to achieve everything it does without the wonderful and generous volunteers who give their time to support the visually impaired community. From helping out in our shops and donation centres, to cheering along marathon runners,...

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What it’s like to volunteer with Vision Foundation…

Vision Foundation wouldn’t be able to achieve everything it does without the wonderful and generous volunteers who give their time to support the visually impaired community. From helping out in our shops and donation centres, to cheering along marathon runners,...

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Screenshot of Love Island's YouTube preview of Molly Marsh's self-description. Molly, a young, petite blonde woman, is perched on an inflatable flamingo.

ITV ‘couple-up’ with accessibility, offering self-descriptions for Love Island participants

Ahead of the start of series 10 of Love Island next week, the Islanders have recorded self descriptions for blind and partially sighted audiences. In addition to the usual "Meet the Islanders" feature, where viewers hear about their lifestyle, relationships...

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Seb, an 18year old white man with brown hair, sunglasses, a white shirt and shorts sits next to his father, Alan wearing a navy blue shirt and blue trousers. Who is in his 50s. They are sat in the sun behind trees and purple flowers.

Father-son duo share their epic journey to the RideLondon-100

Cycling for charity is a family affair! If you were about to undertake a gruelling 100-mile cycle through and around the nation’s capital, how would you be feeling? We caught up with the cycling dream team, a.k.a. father and son...

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Gemma Owen becomes Young Ambassador for Fight for Sight

We are delighted to welcome Gemma Owen to our organisation as Fight for Sight's Young Ambassador. Gemma is passionate about using her platform to raise awareness of sight loss. Gemma is an international dressage rider, business owner, and TV personality. Her...

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Trustee to triumph in peloton to save sight and change lives!

Fundraising assistant, Olivia caught up with Trustee and Team Vision cyclist, Elizabeth Honer to discuss the upcoming and historic RideLondon-Essex event she will be taking part in this Sunday, 28 May. Elizabeth will be cycling a whopping 100 miles around...

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An insight into assistive technology…

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is the annual awareness day focusing on digital access and inclusion for disabled people around the world. It takes place on the third Thursday of May each year. Everyone deserves a first-rate digital experience on...

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Rabia, Maliha and Muna stood arm-in-arm for a photo in the newspaper.

Mum and girls tackle marathon to save sight and change lives!

Full credit to Simon Woodings at the Stratford Herald for the below story, which was originally posted in print. We have reposted it here to display it in a format that is accessible to visually impaired screen-reader users. Listen to...

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The moving story behind the youngest male runner in the London Marathon this year…

This Sunday, 23 April, Fight for Sight runner, Jude will be 18 years and six days old, and he’ll be taking on the iconic London Marathon to raise money for groundbreaking research into sight loss. Running alongside around 50,000 other...

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