Stories
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Navigating in a connected world
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
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The joys and failures of audio description
Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.
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The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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Bringing Braille back to the modern world
For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.
Catalogue
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Vision in the dark.
Date: 1992- Archives and manuscripts
Vision Research Working Party meeting papers, 7 October 1987
Date: October 1987Reference: WT/C/1/9/8Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Vision and work / by Freeland Fergus.
Fergus, A. Freeland (Andrew Freeland), 1858-1932.Date: 1907- Archives and manuscripts
Vision Research Working Party meeting papers, 24 May 1989
Date: May 1989Reference: WT/C/1/9/13Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Vision Research Working Party meeting papers, 4 February 1998
Date: February 1998Reference: WT/C/1/9/43Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive