Living with sight loss news

News and updates for people living with sight loss, or for anyone supporting someone with sight loss.

Meet us at Sight North East

We will be attending Sight North East in Newcastle on Wednesday 12 September, 10am to 4pm, at St. James' Park Football Stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre.

Royal Mail collections

More of our Talking Book readers are reporting delays in receiving and returning their CDs even though they have been posted.

New films with audio description on DVD

Published: 16 July 2012 Paramount Pictures has released two new titles on DVD and Blu-ray with audio descripton (AD) this month.

Panasonic receives RNIB Inclusive Society Award

Published: 16 July 2012 Panasonic has been commended in the RNIB Inclusive Society Awards 2012 for their decision to incorporate Voice Guidance.

Your rights in employment

Find out about your legal rights in employment with our new factsheet.

Book Quiz - July 2012

We have teamed up with audio book publishers AudioGO (home of BBC audiobooks) to offer you a fantastic opportunity to win an audio book of your choice worth up to £25 throughout 2012. Most titles are available in both CD and download format.

More books, more choice

Last year, RNIB National Library Service sent 1.5 million books in audio, braille and giant print to over 41,000 readers across the UK.

Satisfied reader requests

What would you like to see in the library? We are always happy to hear which books our readers would like to see us add to the library. Because of limited resources we can't promise that it will get chosen, but all requests are considered.

Dagger in the library shortlist

The Dagger in the Library prize shortlist is Belinda Bauer, S.J. Bolton, Susan Hill, Peter May, Steve Mosby and Imogen Robertson.

Reading rewards

Would you like to try reading something you have never tried before and get rewarded for it? Reading rewards is an adult challenge running in north west public libraries during summer and autumn 2012.

BlackBerry Screen Reader has arrived!

Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry smartphones have released a free BlackBerry Screen Reader making BlackBerry handsets a great alternative to touch screen phones for blind and partially sighted people.

Waterstones to stock Amazon Kindle

High street bookseller Waterstones has announced that it will, in the Autumn, be launching new e-reading services and will be offering Kindle eBook reading devices through its UK shops.

Book Quiz - June 2012

Win an audio book (download or CD) a month. We have teamed up with audio book publishers AudioGO to offer you a fantastic opportunity to win an audio book of your choice worth up to £25 throughout 2012.

Contribute to research into reading

We thought you would be interested to know about this online survey from the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University (LISU), to find out what reading for pleasure means to blind and partially sighted adults.

36 month update on PTX1

Some PTX1 model DAISY players have developed an annoying habit of announcing that: "36 months have elapsed since the player was serviced" when the device is turned on.

Last updated: 11 July 2012

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