Across SeeAbility we maintained our focus on accessibility, developing our external accessibility offering, and continuing to innovate with our video and screen reader accessible Easy Read guides to ensure everyone can access the information.

Our headline accessibility work in 2024-25 was our innovative partnership with the Eurovision Song Contest and official partners Baileys in 2024, providing lived experience expertise and recommendations to enhance inclusivity. This included audio descriptions for each act, which were shared on Spotify alongside the live broadcast. All our recommendations were driven by lived experience from our internal experts and our Patron, Amar Latif.

We are thrilled that our Marketing, Digital and Communications team won the Accessible Comms Award at the Inspiring Communicator Awards 2024 for their accessibility work over the last year.

Alongside the flashier displays of accessibility was our continued work to make information more accessible to everyone. Our accessible resources were downloaded almost 60,000 times in 2024-25, transforming information for people on a range of topics. We produced a number of new Easy Read guides covering a range of difficult topics – ranging from how to stay safe on the internet, to an explainer of dementia, to what happens at the end of your life.

Supporting people to access good quality, clear information is so important to us. Each time someone can read information in a format that works for them, we take a step closer to inclusion.

We follow this ethos and work towards a more inclusive community within SeeAbility. We do this with our accessibility training, our colleague accessibility learning hub including guides and videos on improving accessibility, and with our work to make our policies screen reader accessible, with Easy Read versions. Accessibility at SeeAbility isn't optional!

We have two new trustees with lived experience of sight loss, lawyer Michael Smith and Fight for Sight CEO Keith Valentine. Michael and Keith bring diversity and invaluable insights to our Board of Trustees. At SeeAbility, we are always striving for lived experience of disability to have a greater influence on our decision-making and for our charity to benefit from the richness that diversity brings.  

We continue to produce a screen reader accessible version of our Annual Report, so people with visual impairments can read the complicated financial information it contains.

We also ensure that our fully digital Impact Report is accessible for screen reader users and people with sensory processing issues. As always, we also have our Easy Read Impact Report, so people can choose the format that works best for them.

In 2025-26 we will continue to push the boundaries in our accessibility work and encourage others to do the same.