Connect Voices Round Up 9 February 2022
Season 1, Episode 1114, Feb 09, 2022, 10:00 AM
Charlotte Jones, RNIB's National Involvement Coordinator, shares the latest opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to get involved in.
Opportunities highlighted this week included:
Share your experiences of help from the RNIB’s Technology for Life team
The RNIB Stories Library Team is keen to hear from anyone who is age 50 and over, who has received help from RNIB's Technology for Life team - this could include help with your laptop, mobile phone, or tablet to share your stories about how the Tech for Life Team have helped you with your technology.
Join a focus group around the See Sport Differently project and help to change the public’s understanding of sight loss at the same time
See Sport Differently is a new Sport England initiative delivered in partnership with RNIB and British Blind Sport (BBS). Together, we want to break down barriers in sport to increase opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to participate in physical activity and experience truly inclusive sport in lots of different ways.
If you are between 35 – 65 years old, have a desire to increase your social activities, create a step-change in the public’s understanding of sight loss and help shape our exciting new campaign? Then this focus group could be for you!
Help make TV on demand services more accessible with audio description
The RNIB would like video on demand services such as All4, ITV Hub, BBC iPlayer, My5, Discovery+ and others to be more accessible for their blind and partially sighted customers.
The RNIB would like video on demand services such as All4, ITV Hub, BBC iPlayer, My5, Discovery+ and others to be more accessible for their blind and partially sighted customers.
The RNIB will be asking the Government to make the provision of audio description a legal requirement for on demand TV services.
To help us, we would like to hear from you if you have struggled to use any of the video on demand services recently. This could be because of a lack of audio description, the app being inaccessible or any other reason.
Please share your experiences and support our up-coming campaign on audio description.
Can your friends and family help with developing our RNIB website
Our website is the main go-to place for information and access to services and advice around sight los and after consulting with blind and partially sighted people we are now looking for friends and family to give their feedback on using our website.
To find out more about these items and how you can get involved with RNIB Connect Voices do visit - https://www.rnib.org.uk/rnibconnect/connect-voices.
(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)