The chair of Sechelt’s accessibility advisory committee says with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) getting out of audio books, visually impaired people are looking to the province and local governments to step in.
Bill Conway made the comments after the district proclaimed Feb. 4 to 10 as White Cane Week at the Feb. 7 council meeting.
Conway is also a provincial director of the BC/Yukon division of the Canadian Council for the Blind.
Conway said one of the initiatives he’s involved in through the council is lobbying for local governments and the province to step in to fill the gap left by the CNIB’s change of policy.
“We realize that local governments do not support the audio book programs properly or equally. As of Jan. 31, 2018, the CNIB no longer funds the audio book program, so we now have to push toward local and provincial governments,” he said.
