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RNIB 2025 Media Accessibility Symposium
RNIB’s Accessible Media Symposium brings together broadcasters, streamers, technology companies, creatives, researchers and people with lived experience to explore the future of accessible media. As storytelling, platforms and technologies evolve, so too must the ways we think about access. This two-day event is a chance to share ideas, highlight innovation, and shape what accessible media looks like in the years ahead.
Oban blind man could voice Lidl's new self-checkouts
An Oban man who lost his sight is a finalist in Lidl’s competition to find the new Scottish voice for its self-checkouts. Alan MacDonald volunteers with RNIB, is among over 5,000 entrants.
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.
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 this August.
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 the updated NHS England Accessible Information Standard is fully implemented, leading sight loss charity Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has warned.
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 is not being turned into a reality.
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 sought to significantly cut health and disability benefits but, thanks to disabled people’s relentless campaigning, we are in a much better place now than when the bill was first introduced.
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 platform edge, the Department for Transport (DFT) has confirmed that it has completed a programme of installing tactile paving on all platforms across Great Britain.