About Us

Visual Independence is a newly established Australian not for profit charity whose aim it is to:

"bring happiness to the blind and low visioned Australians through the use of assistive / adaptive technology"

In recent times, technology has developed to empower the blind and low visioned live a more independent life.

The sad thing is that this technology costs and many potential beneficiaries are low income Australians managing on a blind pension who have no means of affording assistive technology.

The founder of Visual Independence, living with a blind person, recognised the need for the establishment of an organisation to assist needy individuals obtain this technology.

Through your generous support, Visual Independence in conjunction with the various State and Territory based blind and vision organisations will assist in bringing this technology, such as the talking bar code scanner (ID Mate Omni) to those in need.