Events Database

52 historical macro events · 2010–today

Filtered by:blindness✕ clear
DateEvent
Sep 3, 12Brian Allan obituary
Aug 31, 12Fleksy keyboard app targets visually-impaired and sighted users alike
Aug 18, 12Digital books may not be for everyone. But for blind people, they're a true revolution
Jul 30, 12US and EU blocking treaty to give blind people access to books
Jul 23, 12Roger Duclaud-Williams obituary
Jul 18, 12Sightsavers water projects in Tienfala, Mali – in pictures
Jul 12, 12Havana blind cinema: 'This helps us to have the desire to live' - video
Jun 29, 12Guatemala launches braille version of national freesheet newspaper
Jun 28, 12Blind people: cuts, coping... and rude bus drivers
Jun 17, 12Cathy Urwin obituary
May 28, 12Blind musicians lose their fear of the dark
May 6, 12Blindness prevention drug could save NHS £84.5m, trial results show
May 4, 12Eye implants restore 'useful sight' to two blind patients
Apr 28, 12Experience: I can't see or hear
Apr 18, 12Transplanted cells allow mice with night blindness to see in dark
Apr 18, 12Night blindness corrected in mice using transplants of photoreceptor cells – video
Apr 16, 12Meet Simon Wheatcroft, the blind ultramarathon runner
Apr 1, 12Sightless in Cairo
Mar 1, 12After interviewing David Rathband, I can honestly say I feared for him
Mar 1, 12David Rathband BBC transcript: 'I'm not in a place where I enjoy being blind'
Feb 17, 12Video games improve sight in adults born with a rare eye disorder
Feb 14, 12Braille comes unbound from the book: how technology can stop a literary crisis
Feb 5, 12Benefit cuts are fuelling abuse of disabled people, say charities
Nov 25, 11Will I still get Personal Independence Payments if G4S can't talk to me?
Jul 1, 11Sightseeing for blind people
Jun 28, 11Doctors vote against cutting abortion time limit from 24 to 20 weeks
Jun 16, 11Groundbreaking eye disease treatment trials to begin
May 28, 11Performances in the dark
Feb 19, 11Experience: I first saw my wife 10 years after we married
Feb 17, 11Blind people will lose £30 per week under new benefit regime, says RNIB
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