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Two ladies in a visually impaired reading group meeting

The new Vision and Print Impaired People’s Promise

In 2020, Share The Vision, a coalition of UK organisations that work together to improve the quality, availability and accessibility of library services for people with a vision or print impairment, revised the ‘Six Steps’ Promise, which sits alongside the Libraries Connected Universal Offers. Fundamentally, the core pri...

New Strategic Partnership

On 8 June 2020, Share The Vision and The Ulverscroft Foundation announced a new and exciting 3 year strategic partnership, with the aim to highlight and develop accessible library services - Great news to coincide with #HiVIS2020, for all visually-impaired library users, and those working in the sector. The two organisati...

Hi VIS Fortnight – Celebrating the word in all its formats

Same aim; different name ‘Make A Noise In Libraries’ is changing into ‘Hi VIS’ from this year. The celebration of accessible library services and alternative formats will be taking place during the first two weeks of June, as before (1-14th June 2020); it will still be aiming to champion and raise awareness of the range o...

Hi VIS 2020 digital resources

New Reading Sight website launches during Make a Noise in Libraries

Readingsight.org.uk is the newly updated, one-stop shop for a range of professionals to find information that will help them to support visually and/or print impaired readers. The website relaunch comes during the annual Make A Noise in Libraries fortnight which ends on Friday. The theme of this year’s celebration is ‘Get...