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Five people wearing pink RNIB t-shirts and holding signs protesting railway stations ticket office closures, stand outside the Department for Transport.
Five people wearing pink RNIB t-shirts and holding signs protesting railway stations ticket office closures, stand outside the Department for Transport.

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Time Addressable Media Store (TAMS)

BBC R&D have been working on a way to speed up the content creation process which may also give audio describers more time to work on AD tracks.

Posted Wednesday, 16 July 2025 News type: Article

I Dream in Colour: Blind artist brings show to Edinburgh Fringe

Jasmine Thien is a blind actor, writer, poet, and stand-up comedian who is bringing her one woman show ‘I Dream in Colour’ to the Edinburgh fringe Festival thi…

Posted Tuesday, 15 July 2025 News type: News story

Let us have our health information in a way we can read, say patients with sight loss

Blind and partially sighted people will continue to face serious risks to their safety because information received about their health isn’t accessible, unless…

Posted Monday, 14 July 2025

NHS Accessible Information Standard: find out what's changed in England

Blind and partially sighted people have a legal right to receive accessible health and care information and communication support, but far too often this right…

Posted Monday, 14 July 2025 News type: News story

Revvv It Up Festival set to become new family event of the year

The people of Dungiven and the surrounding areas are eagerly anticipating the return of the action-packed family festival roaring into Ballyguddin Road, Dungiv…

Posted Friday, 11 July 2025 News type: Press release

Welfare Reforms Bill: RNIB response

Posted Thursday, 10 July 2025

What was the outcome of UK MPs final vote on the welfare bill?

It’s been a turbulent few weeks in Parliament, as the UK Government has brought forward its welfare bill, now re-named the Universal Credit Bill. The bill soug…

Posted Thursday, 10 July 2025 News type: News story

Camden Council challenged over coloured crossings

Posted Wednesday, 9 July 2025 News type: News story

Campaigning works: Tactile paving on train platforms completed across Britain

Five years after the tragic death of Cleveland Gervais, a man with sight loss who fell from a train platform that lacked tactile paving to warn him of the plat…

Posted Tuesday, 8 July 2025 News type: News story

RNIB response to the publication of the NHS 10 Year Plan

Posted Monday, 7 July 2025 News type: Press release