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Blindness and visual impairment

July 2024

  • Liberal Democrat MP Steve Darling and Jennie<br>Undated handout photo issued by the Liberal Democrats of Steve Darling, the Liberal Democrat MP for Torbay, with his guide dog Jennie, aged four. Issue date: Sunday July 28, 2024. PA Photo. Mr Darling has a genetic eye condition called Stargardt disease, so his "world is a bit like looking through frosted glass", so furry frontbencher, Jennie, assists the MP for Torbay when he's in the Palace of Westminster, and at home in Devon. See PA story POLITICS Darling. Photo credit should read: Liberal Democrats/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Watch out Larry: how Jennie the golden retriever is taking Westminster by storm

    The guide dog of Liberal democrat MP Steve Darling has her own press officer after becoming a social media sensation
  • Lucy Edwards, disability activist and broadcaster, holds the first blind Barbie doll.

    ‘A positive step forward’: Mattel launches first blind Barbie

    Toymaker created the doll, which carries a cane, to create a ‘sense of belonging’ for children with vision impairment

    • Why I'm obsessed with...
      I’m obsessed with ocean sounds: ‘I can’t see but I can hear the whole reef, like an orchestra’

    • Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive

    • Tories criticised for saying Lib Dem candidate pretending to be blind

June 2024

  • The guide dog Max and Mar Gunnarsson crouch in front of a plane

    ‘Max is my eyes’: Paralympian says post-Brexit rules stop him flying with his guide dog

  • Two people in voting booths at a polling station

    Make this the last inaccessible election for blind people in UK, campaigners demand

  • Performers on stage

    New Zealand Opera to provide braille surtitles for live performances

  • Lucy Webster

    There should be over 100 disabled MPs, but there are barely any. UK politics has a huge accessibility problem

    Lucy Webster

May 2024

  • Ben Harrington uses the Navilens app on a Melbourne tram

    Route to independence: Ben identifies his Melbourne tram by sound – but a new app means he won’t have to

    Exclusive: Navilens will change how vision-impaired people ride the city’s trams, using large text and audio to provide tram location, live arrival information and next stops
  • A floating bus stop on the CS2 cycle route in Mile End, east London: a red London bus is stopped and people are getting on from an area which is separated from the main pavement by the cycle lane

    Transport secretary considers ban on floating bus stops in UK cycle lanes

    Exclusive: Cycling campaign groups warn such a move could preclude building of segregated bike routes

    • Adapted NHS bowel cancer test developed for blind and partly sighted people

    • How to pair up with blind people for walks and holidays

    • How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath

      Adrian Chiles

April 2024

  • Illustrations from The Twits Next Door.

    Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting

    Promotional video for a Twits spin-off book by broadcaster and his colleague Chris Smith is criticised by charity for the blind

March 2024

  • A teenage girl standing under a tree

    The fight to cure South Sudan’s mysterious neurological disorder

  • Terry Quinn and his Guide Dog Spencer

    Blind people in England at risk from ‘shocking’ social care delays, finds report

February 2024

  • Dr David Squirrell, Christina and their guide dog, Viking, at home in Hallett Cove, South Australia. David - has been fighting the NDIA for 6 years now. He is deafblind and can't find a suitable carer in the Adelaide region to meet his needs. His wife has the qualifications but because they are married the NDIA won't fund her.

    Inequality reporting
    David relies on Christina for 24/7 care, but the NDIS won’t fund her help – because she’s his wife

    The deafblind advocate is unable to find another carer and NDIA says it only funds family members in ‘exceptional circumstances’

January 2024

  • Anne Dicks with her melodeon and dog Sasha.

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: my puppy made a friend at the pet shop – and life was never the same again

    Anne Dicks was walking her black lab Sasha when they met some Guide Dogs fundraisers. She ended up making music for Britain’s only partially sighted morris troupe

December 2023

  • ‘I’ll never take the joy of Christmas for granted again’ … Irenosen Okojie, right, with her mother at Christmas.

    A Christmas that changed me
    A Christmas that changed me: My love for the season was dwindling fast – but my Mum saved it

    Last year, my mother’s sudden loss of vision made me despair. But I had underestimated her strength – and her determination that we would all have a good time
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