One area in which the RNIB is urgently seeking help is with the "talking books" which are sent out to keep blind and partially sighted people in the news.
The RNIB Group (Royal National Institute of BlindPeople) was one of the organisations that did sign on to help big companies to get the visually impaired into work.
After ten years of research, David Martin, a materials scientist at the University of Michigan, came up with a polymer that could help deaf people hear and blindpeople see.