Advocacy Talks Episode 19 - Accessing music education with a vision impairment.
In this episode Madeleine chatted with Grace Gavin who is a 2nd year student at University of Limerick. She shared her love of music, both playing the piano and singing. She explained how she learns p...
19 Aug 24min
Advocacy Talks Episode 18 – Gaisce; Ireland’s Youth Awards
In this episode Madeleine spoke to Conor Clifford who is a Gaisce Youth Ambassador. He has achieved the bronze and silver Gaisce medals so far and having a vision impairment has not held Conor back. H...
22 Jul 23min
Advocacy Talks Episode 17 – The Independent Travel Support service
in this episode Madeleine spoke to Fiona Kelty, Independent Travel Support Assistant with Dublin Bus. She explained how this service works and shared some useful tips to help people who are blind or v...
24 Jun 25min
Advocacy Talks Episode 16 – How a blind man used Meta glasses and Be My Eyes to run a marathon.
If you want to be inspired then this episode is for you! Madeleine spoke to Clark Reynolds, aka Mr Dot, about his recent participation in the Brighton marathon where he achieved a world first, by usin...
20 Mai 25min
Advocacy Talks Episode 15 – Traversing 3rd level education with sight loss; the good and the bad
In this episode of Advocacy Talks Madeleine spoke to Wiktoria Kaminska who is studying at Technical University Dublin in Tallaght. She is totally blind and has a significant hearing loss. Wiktoria des...
22 Apr 39min
Advocacy Talks Episode 14 – A deep dive into your digital accessibility rights
In this episode Madeleine spoke to Adela Buliman, Chief Accessibility Officer with Vially, about the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the recent IAAP conference that they co-hosted at the Wayfindi...
25 Mar 24min
Advocacy Talks Episode 13 – The “World Unseen” tactile photography exhibition
In this episode we spoke to Michael Grimes about the recent Canon “World Unseen” exhibition which was hosted in the Photo Museum, Dublin. It offered a tactile and sensory experience through elevated p...
25 Feb 24min
