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Network Rail gets some initial funding to install tactile paving at stations
After months of campaigning, Network Rail has received an initial £10 million from the Department for Transport to install tactile paving at up to 200 priority…
RNIB delivers Disability Awareness training to MPs
It’s essential MPs understand sight loss and accessibility to service their blind and partially sighted constituents. We’ve been working hard in Parliament to …
RNIB backs report recommendations to improve low vision services
RNIB is adding its voice to calls from across the sight loss sector, to review the commissioning and provision of low vision services in England. This follows …
National Disability Strategy: Too early to tell
The new National Disability Strategy is out today, promising to improve the lives of disabled people as part of the Government’s “levelling up” agenda.
Campaign success: blind women invited to local GP consultation panel
Steve Hyde, RNIB’s Regional Campaigns Officer for the South West, has helped a woman with visual impairment get access to a previously inaccessible consultatio…
RNIB guidance update: sighted guiding after 19 July 2021
Following the relaxation of coronavirus rules, we’ve issued revised guidance on sighted guiding, agreed with Guide Dogs and Thomas Pocklington Trust.
RNIB and RNID call on Government to make on-demand TV content accessible
We have partnered with RNID (The Royal National Institute for Deaf People) to write to the Minister for Digital Infrastructure, Matt Warman, urging the Governm…
MPs hear how blind and partially sighted people still cannot vote in secret
More than 30 MPs recently joined RNIB to share the experiences blind and partially sighted people have of inaccessible voting. They also heard a solution now e…
Legal challenge success: DWP to end cold-calling of disabled claimants
The Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) has agreed to re-write its policies and guidance and to retrain officials following a successful legal challenge to …
Voting still not accessible for blind and partially sighted people finds RNIB research
Nearly 150 years after the Ballot Act – which guarantees the right to vote in secret – blind and partially sighted people still face unacceptable barriers to e…