Blindness
Alternative labels
Blind
Video
The young entrepreneur: a successful story of microenterprise
This video features Luca Weber, blind since childhood, who runs a microenterprise. Luca and his mother share insights into creating and managing the business. Microenterprises are simple, low‑cost ventures built around a person’s strengths, offering community connection and viable employment pathways for people with disability, as Luca’s journey demonstrates.
Report
Inclusive juries — access for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision: report
This report recommends ways to remove barriers from current law and practice that prevent Victorians who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision, from serving as jurors.
Discussion paper
Inclusive juries – access for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision: consultation paper
The Victorian Law Reform Commission has released this consultation paper as part of their consideration over what changes to legislation and practices should be made to enhance access for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision who wish to serve as jurors in Victoria.
Report
Smartphones and equal access for people who are blind or have low vision
This research report finds that that while around 80 per cent of the country’s blind and low vision community own a smartphone, many users are finding limitations with the technology, such as general features being inaccessible or unaccommodating.
Evaluation
Co-designing a peer support platform for people with low vision and blindness
This report evaluates the design and development of a prototype Peer Support Platform that aimed to address the information, linkages and capacity (ILC) building needs of people with low vision and blindness.