We are the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people with sight loss. Our pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem – not just with braille and Talking Books, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges.
We also provide information and services for professionals who can make a difference to the lives of blind and partially sighted people.
We offer training, consultancy services and practical online support for professionals in the following areas:
health and social care
education
accessible and inclusive design - signs, maps, buildings, streets, websites, software, packaging, products and more.
We also provide information for employers on what you need to know about employing someone with sight loss.
Specialties
accessibility; blindness; partial sight; products; books and magazines; consultancy services; employment; education; technology; commercial services.
RNIB Activity on LinkedIn
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RNIB Developers! Find out what happened at the RNIB Hackathon, where Android, iOS and HTML5 developers came together to collaboratively build accessible mobile apps that could make a difference for blind and partially sighted people. -
RNIB has a new Narrator
Greg Wagland is now Narrator
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RNIB RNIB needs your help! Do you have a smartphone and access the web through it? If so, and you'd be interested in taking part in some research to help RNIB to identify opportunities to develop in this area, we'd love to hear from you... -
RNIB Are you a customer of the Royal Bank of Scotland, or you do your business banking with them? Then we need your help! We're targeting the banks that are refusing to offer their blind and partially sighted customers equal access to their own finances. Use our simple online tool to put in an official complaint about the lack of talking cash machines at RBS… -
RNIB has a new HR Database Management
Asad Iqbal is now HR Database Management, was Line Manager at The Body Shop
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RNIB Software Developers - Just 4 more sleeps till the RNIB Hackathon - find out more about the accessibility challenges faced by blind and partially sighted people using smart phones - Android and Iphones. Book your place now! -
RNIB Are you a software developer? Come along to our overnight Hackathon, and find out about the accessibility challenges faced every day by blind and partially sighted smart phone users... -
RNIB Are you a member of the Co-operative bank, or does your organisation use them to do their business banking? Use our simple online tool to put in an official complaint about the lack of talking ATMs... -
RNIB One of the calls in our Twitter marathon was from an employer wanting to find out how to make the workplace accessible. Find out more about our Access Consultancy Services -
RNIB Twitter marathon!!! #RNIBinaday Find out more about our helpline on Twitter TODAY...
