Talking Vision by Vision Australia Radio

A special repeat of Talking Vision's World Braille Day special from ealier this year:

Vision Australia Radio and RPH network veteran Stephen Jolley, catches up with BBC North America correspondent Gary O'Donoghue.

Gary has been totally blind from a young age, and so throughout his later childhood and adult life braille has played a central role in everything he does. 

Tune in to hear more from Gary about braille's role in his ...

This week Sam catches up with Ben Harrington and Elias Labbos from Travellers Aid as they celebrate Travellers Aid's 100th Birthday.

Plus as Sam finishes up on Talking Vision for the moment, he takes some time to say farewell.

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Peter Greco catches up with Vision Australia chief mission officer Chris Edwards to speak about the changes to Vision Australia Radio taking effect on 1 July, including the conclusion of the AM services on the network.

You'll also hear from Anushka Singh, coordinator of the 'Hear and See Me' Program as part of the Speak My Language initiative. Sam catches up with Anushka to hear about who can get involved in the podcast, the langua...

Sam catches up with Anum Ejaz, a researcher from Curtin University who is looking into the accessibility of visual social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok etc.

You'll also hear from Rachael Leahcar, who is set to appear as the ambassador for this year's Adelaide Disability and Workability Expo on 26 and 27 June at the Adelaide Showgrounds.

And finally this week, editor of For Your Information Liz Dalakouras is back to give...

We start off this week with a Vision Australia Library update from community engagement coordinator Maureen O'Reilly. Maureen is back to fill us in on some events members can look forward to over the next two months.

You'll also hear from Sandra George, Sandra is a member of the national committee at Albinism Fellowship Australia. She has a chat with Sam about International Albinism Awareness Day on June 13, the statistics around a...

Sam catches up with Chris Gross, the creator of AVA, a web based AI companion to assist people living with blindness and low vision. You can find out more about AVA by visiting Chris' QualityLife Collective website.

You'll also hear from PhD student Aasha Rose from University of Southern Queensland, she's back to give us an update on her research into adult braille literacy. Her online survey is almost closed but there's still time...

Sam speaks to David Woodbridge, blindness product specialist from Humanware, to get an update on the latest assistive technology available later this year for Windows users who are blind or have very low vision.

David also speaks about his involvement with the Assistive Technology Round Table conference in Adelaide, and gives a preview of some topics coming up in future episodes of his podcast.

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As part of the conversation around Global Accessibility Awareness Day on Thursday 21 May, Sam speaks to Liz Dalakouras about Vision Australia's new awareness campaign "Accessibility Starts at Home".

The campaign highlights the need for home appliances to be more accessible for people who are blind or have low vision, and you can check out a series of videos, podcasts and articles on this topic by heading to the landing page.

You'll...

It's a Mother's Day Special episode of Talking Vision this week as we hear from three different mums who are blind or have low vision.

Sam takes a look back at some of the conversations he's had with mums from the blind and low vision community over the years, including Wanda Egerton and Anna Dal as part of the Mother's Day panel, as well as Deena Morgan.

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Sam catches up with community engagement coordinator from the Vision Australia Library, Maureen O'Reilly, to chat about some upcoming events in May as well as some creative writing workshops the library will be running in June.

You'll also hear from William Chen, a researcher from Monash University undertaking a PhD project around accessible public transport for users who are blind or have low vision.

William is running some worksh...

This week Sam is in conversation with Maximiliano Guerra Morales, a Chilean disability rights activist, mechanical engineer and coordinator of Orquesta Filarmonica Antena, a 380 person orchestra featuring people of all abilities from his hometown of La Serena.

The orchestra is coming to Australia for the first time in July and Maxi would like to encourage members of the blind and low vision community to buy a ticket for their conce...

Sam speaks to Stephanie Amir, spokesperson from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about the upcoming Australian census which is taking place on August 11, 2026. Steph tells us about the ways in which this year's census has been made accessible and confidential for all residents who are blind or have low vision.

You'll also hear from Jason Gipps who caught up with Ben Waechter, founder of Adelaide-based disability support service...

Sam is joined by Peter and Rohan Rickards as well as Kathy Leitch, three of the people involved in Sensaball, an omnidirectional cane tip designed for white cane users to navigate their surroundings with improved sensitivity and feedback from the cane tip.

You'll also hear from the Vision Australia Radio Adelaide team, who recently interviewed Nathan from SANFL at the Adelaide Independent Living Expo about blind footy, how the game...