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HiVis 2026: 1-14 June 2026

As in previous years, Share the Vision has produced a range of social media digital assets and poster templates to support you with your promotion of HiVis activities in 2026.

To help ensure that posts are accessible; and please remember to add Alt Text to any photos you post during the fortnight.

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NEWSLETTER No. 373

An upcoming Portsmouth Libraries webinar focuses on co-creating inclusive collections within the GLAM sector. The premiere of Nyla’s Story, a short film by RNIB and the Motability Foundation, reimagines safe and accessible future transport systems for visually impaired individuals. A featured news story highlights a blind teenager who had to travel a 140-mile round trip just to find a cinema equipped with audio description headsets. Details are provided on Fight for Sight’s “Digital Inclusion” grants, which fund four specific projects aimed at unlocking employment opportunities for the blind. Finally, the text highlights scientific research showing that people with cortical blindness from birth seemingly never develop schizophrenia, revealing insights into how the visual brain functions.

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Reading Sight Resource Pack

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Share the Vision, in partnership with the Ulverscroft Foundation, The Reading Agency, and Libraries Connected, have developed a FREE Reading Sight resource pack aimed at supporting people working in libraries to better support people with vision and print impairments. 

Hard copy packs have been sent to each library service in the UK and digital versions of all the embedded resources are yours to freely download from this website.

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The Vision and Print Impaired People’s Promise

blind reader

‘I can’t see to read books anymore. The library staff know what authors I like and request items for me, it is a lifeline to me.’
Talking with Readers quote from library user, Libraries Connected

The Vision and Print Impaired People’s Promise sets out the experience that people with blindness, sight loss and other print disabilities should have through public library services. We want everyone who visits a public library to be inspired by an exciting accessible environment which makes reading and seeking information a pleasure.

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