Posts tagged with VI

Braille and tactile materials to support Vision-Impaired students – workshop reflections

To celebrate World Braille Day (4 Jan), we’re releasing this blog post about a workshop that we ran in October 2025, introducing staff to braille and ways to support our blind students who use braille at the University. Despite the prevalence of digital technologies, braille is still very important for literacy, to support multiple modes … Continue reading Braille and tactile materials to support Vision-Impaired students – workshop reflections

Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 3

Tactile resources are useful to supplement the digital versions of resources, enabling a student to use multiple senses to understand the data, patterns and connections. In Part 1 of our Tactile Graphics blog series, I was just starting to tackle the heatmap resource shown below. Lots of digital tools are good at providing data through … Continue reading Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 3

Reflections on the Braille in Focus event, Nov 2024, Edinburgh

The Braille in Focus event in November 2024 was organised by the Scottish Sensory Centre to celebrate the 200 years since braille was created by Louis Braille in France. Apart from learning about the history of braille, it was an opportunity to meet with other people supporting blind students and to try out some of … Continue reading Reflections on the Braille in Focus event, Nov 2024, Edinburgh

Reflections on our Supporting visually impaired students workshop.

Alice Bennett, Lilian Joy, Digital Accessibility Unit, University of York. Context Over 55 participants attended two workshops on Supporting Visually Impaired (VI) students held in September and October 2024. These workshops were the first of their kind run at the University of York, so were a little experimental. The workshops were instigated by a simple … Continue reading Reflections on our Supporting visually impaired students workshop.