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Introduction - what we do and why we do it

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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.

Infosound Noticeboard.

UK's biggest Exhibition for Vision-impaired People at New Venue. QAC Sight Village moves to a new location in Birmingham this year to improve accessibility.

New RNIB Product Catalogues. Hot off the press, in a variety of formats, up-to-date details of RNIB's fast-expanding range of daily living aids and other products.

Blind Gardener of the Year Competition. Not long to go now to enter the competition that encourages anyone who lives with sight loss to enjoy growing things - irrespective of experience or size of garden (if any!).

COMMENT
From John in Warlingham, Surrey:

"Excellent! A very professional presentation of useful facts and information. I like to download the briefings to CD so that my wife and I can listen in the car as we drive. Wishing you all every success."

Info-Twitter! Follow the ramblings of the Infosound team in text. Access link.

COMMENT
From Gordon in Stirling:

"Given that it is quite hard to find one source of information on everything affecting blind people like myself, Infosound appears to be offering all the best content and information and I also appreciate the clarity of the recording and ease of use of the internet service. I tend to prefer to get information provided in a neat, 'here's the facts' type of way, so the web-edition style was very good."