In this episode we speak with Graeme Innes and Susan Thompson about a successful move to get acess for blind and vision impaired Sydney travelers, to the AIRA service.  They discuss how this can take the stress out of train travel and how else the service might be used.

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New Horizons - Episode 668, AIRA Access in Sydney

In this week's programme we speak with New Horizons regular, and BCA staff-member, Rikki Chaplin.  Rikki has been working hard on putting together a response paper to submit to the Royal Commission on the abuse, neglect, violence and exploitation of people with disabilities.  Hear about Rikki's paper and the response he hopes to receive from the commission.

New Horizons - Episode 667, Rikki Chaplin, Disability Royal Commission

Thank you to the person who reminded me that I had neglected to republish part II of Padraig Naughton's interview, from 2016.  Padraig visited Australia some years ago from Ireland, and we took some time to discuss the differences, at that time, for blind and vision impaired people, between our two countries.  Also some more good news for watchers of audio described television.

New Horizons - Episode 666, Padraig Naughton part II (RPT)

This week we speak with Belinda O'Connor from Bioptic Drivers Australia.  Hear about Bioptic driving, and the establishment of a legal framework to promote bioptic driving and make it easier to be assessed as a bioptic driver.

New Horizons - Episode 665, Bioptic Driving

We harken back to episode 459 in this week's episode.  Ahead of some news for Sydney branch members, we replay an interview from 2016.  Graeme Innes, no stranger to New Horizons and to BCA generally, published his book around then.  If you've not read it yet, here's a great opportunity.  Graeme tells us of his motivation to write the book, and a bit about the process.

New Horizons - Episode 664, Graeme Innes's Autobiography (RPT)

The focus this week is on the upcoming edition of Blind Citizens News, Blind Citizens Australia's quarterly magazine.  Ahead of an interview with editor, Jonathan Craig, we bring you this edition's editorial.

New Horizons - Episode 663, Blind Citizens News

Audio description is again our feature on New Horizons this week.  We speak with Will McRostie from Melbourne, about Description Victoria, and a really interesting partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

New Horizons - Episode 662, Description Victoria

In this week's programme we speak with returning guest, and BCA staff-member, Angela Jaeschke.  Angela discusses her new role, and informs us of the impending commencement of a long awaited service!  Also, Angela discusses some issues papers which BCA is currently formulating a response on.

New Horizons - Episode 661, Audio Description on Australian Television

We speak, in this week's episode, with Dianna Kube, and Tim Haggis, both of whom joined BCA two weeks ago - Dianna as Policy and Advocacy Team Leader, and Tim as Membership Development Coordinator.  Find out about their background, and their views for the roles they have taken on.

New Horizons - Episode 660, Two New Staff for BCA

This week we speak with Philip and Tess from the Australian Network on Disability.  The describe an interesting opportunity for blind or vision impaired students, and an ongoing mentoring programme.

New Horizons - Episode 659, Mentoring and internships with the Australian Network on Disability

This week brings us the second part of our discussion from Global Accessibility Awareness Day.  Andrew Arch, principal consultant with Intopia, talks about changes he's noticed, and what it has taken to get where we are in terms of digital access.  Apologies for the audio dropouts, despite these I thought it was well worth bringing to you.

New Horizons - Episode 658

This is the audio edition of Blind Citizens News, for April 2020.  It has been broken up into chapters for your convenience.  It is narrated and produced by Glenn Morrow.

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In this, the first episode to come out of our recently held Happy Hour on Global Accessibility Awareness day, we hear what the day is about, and we hear from David Vosnacos, Access consultant, and Assistive Technology Coordinator with VisAbility.  David reminds us where we've come from, where we are now, and where to from here; in terms of digital accessibility.  In coming episodes, we'll hear from Andrew Arch from Intopia, and Blind Citizens News editor, Jonathan Craig.

New Horizons - Episode 657, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, part 1

In this episode, we revisit Episode 471, from late 2016.  We hear from padraig naughton who discusses some of the differences between blindness services in Ireland and Australia.

New Horizons - Episode 656, Blindness services in Ireland - repeat

This week we revisit episode 439, from 2016.  Steve Richardson wrote the New Horizons theme-song, and talks about the programme, themes which have been used throughout the years, and how he came to write and sing a tune that New Horizons listeners have heard for over four years now.

New Horizons - Episode 655, New Horizons Theme

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