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The thinking behind Infosound
There are over 2 million blind and partially-sighted people in the United Kingdom, where someone starts to lose their sight every 15 minutes.
With this in mind, our aim is to bring free, accessible, impartial and relevant information to vision-impaired people across the UK. This rolling information service is equally relevant to those who may have lived with sight loss all of their lives and those who are newly diagnosed as vision-impaired.
We neither sell nor promote any particular service, product or opinion. Infosound is strictly impartial, non-commercial and is a free public service and a registered charity.
What Infosound offers
We produce information in short (2 to 7 minute) audio features about the practical issues encountered by someone who lives with sight loss. We cover subjects such as finance, leisure, mobility, products, health, employment, training, services, travel, hobbies, daily-living advice and support and, importantly, we talk to those who have something to say on the subject.
Everything we produce is made available just as soon as it has been produced and anyone can browse our current selection of audio features and choose what they want to hear at any time. Individual audio features are also podcast.
Infosound also "twitters" - offering short, informal text updates on what we're doing and highlighting interesting information we've come across.
We don't produce a regular, such as monthly, audio magazine but, from time to time when enough new features are ready, we update our compilation of current features. This selection normally lasts for roughly 15 minutes. The latest compilation is 'broadcast' on Internet radio services that make our service available to their listeners.
All of our audio material can be played and downloaded from this web site and listened to on a computer or transferred to cassette, CD, mp3 player or memory device.
Information services, such as talking newspapers and magazines, radio stations and other information providers can download what we produce and relay it to their listeners and clients. Again, this is free.
If you need to know any more about Infosound, please do contact us.
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