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www.vipnews.org.uk is an open source project bringing blindness and visual impairment in the news within easier online reach. The UK sub-topics are Arts, Assistive Technology, Blind & V I Writers, Campaigns & Legal, Charities, Crime, Education / Employment, Environment, Guide Dogs, Miscellaneous, Positive Achievers, V I P (meaning Blind & V I People) Sports, Vision Research and Web Accessibility. This is followed by a one link per day "Global Hop" to an international blindness news story.
To navigate links from the keyboard use your TAB key. Links are in "headline, Source publisher, date" format, and open in the same browser window.
Thanks for stopping by / Enjoy reading! V i p news dot org dot u k supports the RIGHT TO READ ALLIANCE.
The Editor.
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Links to articles are in bulleted lists in each topic with articles in reverse date order through the month. Archives go back from the present month on a near daily basis back to September 2002. Although I cannot do much about the accessibility of external pages I am endeavouring to keep this site as accessible to screen reader users as possible and apart from the information it connects to I would appreciate feedback on it's usability. If links don't work or if there's anything I have missed please let me know...
This project was recognised by the National Library for the Blind in 2006, where it was a Visionary Design Award nominee. It is 100% independent, run by an individual on a non-profit basis and is now in it's sixth year. LINKS, IDEAS & FEEDBACK always welcome & your support is appreciated. Research enquiries welcome.
Thanks for visiting/enjoy reading! LEON GILBERT, EDITOR.
A photo of "The Editor" holding the IT4 Communities
"Best Accessible IT Project" Award 2007, for voluntary
work with
The Accessible Friends
Network.
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Where possible each individual article link on this website includes 1 the Title, 2 the Name of the SOURCE Publisher and 3 the Date Published. This hyperlink format is copyright www.vipnews.org.uk 2002-2009. Recent link journal archives (2005-7 period) are sorted by sub topics and older ones (2002-4 period) are sorted by region, for each calendar day since September 2002, comprising over 30,000 access links. Disclaimer here. Research Assistance free to v i p's via EMAIL. Please report errors & make direct enquiries to the Editor & Site Owner
Screen reader accessibility & server response times of external pages vary. Apologies for any spelling or regional errors and broken or moved URL's. Where possible, non-working links are marked [DOWN], time allowing - but all links worked at the time of posting. Further information about link sources e g domain names & country codes may be obtained by pressing the context menu key on any link and selecting "properties" from the menu. Most articles have a home page link to lead you to the publishers homepage & contact details. All articles have also been available online for more than 24 hours. www.vipnews.org.uk Hopes you enjoy reading! All the best & have a great day. LINKS, IDEAS & FEEDBACK and your support is always WELCOME.
N B: Updates are ongoing! All links are hand built, and in reverse date order through the month in each sub topic. Hope you find this site a useful resource. THE EDITOR.
Leon Gilbert is the former editor of the "Stories Making News in the Blind Community" RSS feeds for ACB Radio, on assistive technology, guide dog, blind sports and blind arts news. He is also former day reader for the blindnews at blindprogramming dot com news service (voluntary) and a co-founder of The Accessible Friends Network, a UK group providing support training & social activities run by and for blind & visually impaired people via the internet.
Links are in each category are in reverse date order through the month.
One per calendar day links to blindness related news stories from around the world, with all countries except the UK and USA included.
MORE COMING SOON!! PLEASE CONTACT THE EDITOR of this page IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LIST A FUTURE EVENT (FREE!)
PR Services, Online Research, Content Distribution, Information Networkiing, Technical Support, Editing, Proof Reading or accessible format transcription - All enquiries welcome.
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Here's
a picture of www.vipnews.org.uk
site owner & visual impairment
awareness trainer Leon Gilbert at the 1st
International Bioptic Driving Conference in Chelsea, London, in
June
2004. My invited presentation "Blind people
and The Multi Sensory Experience of Cars" was selected as one of the outstanding
papers of the conference by the Journal of Visual Impairment
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(NB This search will find the page that a relevant link is on. Then Use CTRL F to search the page. Some expired articles may be available from my private archive on request. TIP: For a Geographical search enter any place name, or From the main Google home page, enter the name of any place in the world along with the keyword VIPNEWS. Then check your search results and select the link that says "More results from www.vipnews.org.uk"
Part time home assistants wanted for reading and link-checking work, and I could especially do with some DATABASE support. Are you interested in committing to a few hours each week to helping this website to keep running, from home? If so please send a brief bio/intro via email, to the editor at editor@vipnews.org.uk.
My special thanks for his help in this site's early days to Rod Carne, who was also the founder of NBCS. Rod if ever you read this, it's still going my friend.
T A F N - The Accessible Friends Network
B C A B's "Guide Cats for the Blind" CD page.
Describe Online, an excellent site run by a blind person describing the environment
Insight Radio, Europe's 1st radio station by & for v i p's
White Stick, one of the the web's most useful sites for v i p's
Sues Kitchen, a great online resource for all blind & visually impaired cooks
Looking at You: A first class website made and run by blind & visually impaired children
The Audio Network - A great UK audio website that talks with lots to explore!
The BBC. The best website on Planet Earth!
This Site is active and under continuous construction. Listen to this space!
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The editor is not liable for the contents of external Internet sites or pages linked to at vipnews.org.uk. Nor does he necessarily endorse any commercial product, political/religious viewpoint, service or attitude mentioned, or language used. No responsibility taken for errors or omissions. Non- profit making, intended to be assistive & for accessibility, awareness, education and leisure purposes. Produced and edited on a voluntary basis. This site is fully compliant with the UK Copyright ( Visually Impaired Persons Act 2002), readers are advised to seek permission from the SOURCE publishers for reproduction rights if required, which may vary internationally.
This news link service, its directories & all pages at www.vipnews.org.uk Copyright editor Leon W Gilbert, 2002-2009. All rights reserved.
"For up-to-date daily links to blindness and visual impairment related news stories from around the world, go to the English web site www.vipnews.org.uk. Each item has a brief description of the story and a geographical location. Items are presented in a screen reader friendly way, and the site is a first-rate collection of links to world media." (New York State Talking Book & Braille Library)
"I am a big fan of your site, which I think provides a very valuable service." (Mark Drury, National Library for the Blind U K).
"Thanks for everything you folks do to get the blind news online to us. I know how it feels to work on something and not get feedback, and I want to insure you that what you do is appreciated" (Michael McCarty, Fred's Head Database Coordinator, American Printing House for the Blind.)
"I love your service!" (Mike Calvo, Freedombox Inc.)
"Leon has raised the action of finding news articles of interest to our community to a high art." (Chris Hofstader, Blind Confidential)
"Your postings appear throughout our programming, because they fit into so many different genres... I love it. Thanks for all you do." (Stuart Holland, Manager, Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network)
"..a valuable resource for me professionally and personally" (Allan Russell, broadcast producer, Insight Radio)
"I couldn't hope to locate a fraction of what you've found over the past years. With grateful thanks from the teachers of the visually impaired in China (some of whom *are* VIPs) , & the English end of China Vision" (Chris McMillan, ChinaVision.org.uk )
"I've used VIPNews on and off many times over the past few years and have found it to be an interesting and informative source of stories of general interest to VIPs" (P. Callus)
"Just wanted to say that I think the newsletter is fantastic. At present I have google set up to almost search for articles I might find interesting but I will not need it now as you have it all in one place. Keep up the great work, I shall look forward to reading more of these newsletters." (Diane.F)
"I've always had a rather blinkered attitude to news about VI people in general, and my opinion has generally been that if it is worth hearing about then I'll hear about it at some point. However, having read your newsletter, and as a consequence, reviewed your site, I'm glad to be able to say that it has changed my attitude radically" (Dave.R)
"Obviously it is incredibly useful and I am promoting it around the WBU." (Chris Friend, World Blind Union)
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In 2009 I'm hoping to develop it further and upgrade both the hosting & services offered.
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