Training and Consultancy

There are two million people with sight problems in the UK – potential customers and employees for your business.

We provide local and national training, support and information to help make your services and products accessible to people with sight problems. We can also help you make the most of the skills and abilities of your employees and clients who are blind or partially sighted.

Training

• Visual awareness courses give you an understanding of sight loss and its impact.
• Our education courses help professionals support the learning and development of children and adults with sight problems
• We offer courses for companies and organisations including disability awareness, built environment, web and information sessions.
• We run employment related training to support employers to recruit, select and support individuals who are blind or partially sighted.
• Our health and social care training courses provide development opportunities for professionals working in this sector.
• The Eye Clinic Support Studies Course is a professionally accredited course leading to a qualification aimed at staff working in eye care, social and voluntary sectors.
• Leisure industry training helps improve facilities and services and supports blind and partially sighted people's access to them.
• We offer training for professionals about using technology with individuals with sight loss.
• We include training and ongoing technical support for the range of access technology products we supply to our customers.

Consultancy

• Our work on website accessibility includes a range of services to help organisations ensure their websites are accessible.
• We offer bespoke advice, document auditing, presentations and seminars on creating accessible documents in various electronic formats such as Word and PDF. Contact infoaccess@rnib.org.uk for further details.
• Our product design consultancy can work with your company to ensure that finished products or services are inclusive.
• JMU Access Partnership is one of the UK's leading pan-disability access consultancies. It offers a range of activities from training and research through to tailor-made audits and publications on best practice.

Successes

• Staff at the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) have received our training in disability awareness and are now putting their skills to good use.
• Our training services in accessible e-learning have helped guide colleges, universities and other course providers on procurement, implementation and content development.
• Since 2001, over four hundred people have been awarded our Certificate in Grade 2 English Braille. This is an accredited qualification in reading and writing grade 2 English literacy braille.

Content author: webeditor@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 06/03/2008 15:41