Reports and Insight
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Creating accessible learning materials
Modifying learning materials takes skill and a knowledge of how it will be used. But with practice a straightforward literary text can be downloaded and changed into the required font size in just 90 seconds.
Handwriting: trial or triumph?
Children with vision impairment can face challenges when learning handwriting. This article explores those issues and some practical solutions.
Aiming high for children with low vision
Good quality low vision assessments are vital to help children to make the best use of their vision. It is important, not just for learning, but for their overall wellbeing and independence too.
Vision, accessing information and accessing benefits
This report is a longitudinal research study tracking the process of transition for blind and partially sighted young people from age 14 for five years, identifying the roles of professionals involved and the factors that improve or reduce a young person’s chance of gaining employment.
Finding Your Feet - Next steps project: Strategic impact evaluation
This final report presents the overall findings of the evaluation of RNIB Finding Your Feet - Next Steps Project. Two programmes are included in the Finding Your Feet programme suite: Striding Out and Steps into Work.
Tackling Digital Exclusion: older blind and partially sighted people and the internet
Whilst the use of the internet has grown dramatically in recent years, particular groups of people in society are less likely to be online than others. This includes older people with sight loss. In 2011, BT supported RNIB to investigate the barriers preventing older people with sight loss from using the internet.
A survey of the social activity of blind and partially sighted young people
This is a report commissioned by RNIB to investigate the experiences of blind and partially sighted young people in using social networking sites and mobile phones.
Do we need 3D Audio Description Guidelines?
The success of 3D cinema and the launch of 3D televisions and 3D programming in the UK prompted RNIB to hold facilitated focus group discussions with blind and partially sighted people to find out whether they felt 3D visual effects should be incorporated into the AD of a film or television programme.
Evaluation of partially sighted people's viewing experiences of 3D relative to 2D TV
As 3DTV evolves and changes the way we watch television in our homes, RNIB challenges the industry to take responsibility for researching the impact of long term viewing of 3DTV on partially sighted people. We must ensure that people's viewing experience is not diminished when compared to 2DTV.
