Assisting Musicians: On Digitizing Music Sheets Published in Braille
State Library For The Blind is creating a digital music score archive for visually challenged musicians.
Articles
Traveling Around Russia: The Accessible Nizhniy Novgorod
Vladimir Vaskevich continues to inform us about the Russian cities which are most accessible for sightless tourists.
The City Of Opportunities: How To Become A Blogger And Join An Inclusive Blog Tour
Vladimir Vaskevich, Special View portal correspondent, interviews an inclusive team of bloggers from Samara who created a project for training bloggers with disabilities.
Off-Road Races: Extreme Sport For The Sightless
Motorsports are now becoming available for visually impaired persons. Special View interviews sightless off-road races participants.
Traveling Around Russia: The Accessible St. Petersburg
In this article, you will learn about the most interesting sites of Russia’s Northern Capital.
A Virtual Tour Around the Tropical Butterflies Room in Moscow State University’s Apothecary Garden
Anna Demidova, Ph. D. in Biology, staff scientist and tour guide with Moscow State University Botanic Garden, tells about the Tropical Butterflies Room.
The Cryptology museum: Adapting a Science and Technology Exhibition for the Sightless
The Cryptology museum curator for accessibility and inclusion tells about exhibition adaptation and most interesting pieces of the museum's collection available for tactile examination.
Inclusive balls in Russia: Samara teaches the whole country how to dance
Vladimir Vaskevich talked to sponsors, choreographers and participants of the project “Inclusive balls of Russia”.
Travel across Russia: accessible Ekaterinburg
Vladimir Vaskevich talks about places of interest and cultural event, that are accessible for people with visual impairments.
Teaching Stylists to Work With Sightless Persons While Teaching the Sightless to Be Stylish
Yulia Vasilyeva tells about the BlindFashion project which helps stylists and sightless persons to find each other.
Walking Around Tsaritsyno Memorial Estate: How to Create Accessible Routes for Sightless Visitors
Vladimir Vaskevich, Special View's correspondent, interviewed the activists of the Walking around the Park project
An alien in aquarium: aromas of life
Deaf-and-blind actress, painter and writer, Irina Povolotskaya talks about aromas, that New York and Moscow, autumn, winter and theatre have.
“The road chose me”. Sergey Alekseev – a visually impaired traveler – talks about his walking trip from Armavir to Baikal.
Sergey Alekseev, a traveler with Group 1 vision-impairment disability, covered more than 5200 kilometers on foot.
“Where eyes won't lead you”: how the first Russian travel-show, featuring visually impaired host, was shot
Vladimir Vaskevich told us, how the show was filmed and what issues he had to face.
Touching the mountains: how the visually impaired and sightless people conquer the heights
Andrey Gostev – the leader of “Scale Plus” tourist club – talks about the trips for sightless travelers and crossing the Alps by touch.
