Blind people have always put their greatest efforts into access to education, perhaps be-cause it is a little more difficult for them. This is an idea that the ONCE Social Group maintains, in the knowledge that it is the tool that can help people get where their skills may allow them to, and above all, to prevent physical or mental ba-rriers - the hardest to overcome - from destro-ying their ambitions. The normal presence in classrooms of students with disabilities of any kind is the best leverage towards equality we can envision, as well as re-flecting equality in terms of the right of access to a basic service. The work from all areas in this regard, especially from the ONCE and the ONCE Foundation is unceasing: from early in-clusion to university, from blind people to those with an intellectual disability, everyone has the right to try and get where their talent may get them. 4.2 Effort in education Keep reading Keep reading Keep reading The ONCE social services offer educational coverage to 7,187 schoolchildren with visual impairment in collaboration with the educa-tional services of the autonomous communi-ties, achieving 99.5% of classroom integration for these students and with much better con-tinuity data in their studies than the Spani-sh and European average, although access to university continues to be challenging. The Organisation’s professionals work to gua-rantee the accessibility to physical and digi-tal educational resources, as well as to provi-de the technological tools that students with blindness or visual impairment use in the class-room. The ONCE Digital Educational Content Accessibility Group (ACCEDO) carried out the following initiatives during 2023: Collaboration with the British Council for advice on digital accessibility in language learning. Contact with Microsoft. Evaluation of different educational platforms. Continuation of the research “Analysis of the accessibility of educational platforms com-monly used in the classroom for students with visual impairment”, subsidised by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training. In addition to these students, during the 2022/20223 academic year, 621 foreign stu-dents have been aided at the different educa-tional levels (617 in inclusive education and 4 in the ONCE school centre), of 65 nationalities other than Spanish (8.6% of the total school-age population), in accordance with ONCE’s commitment to this inclusive work, which knows no borders. In addition, we maintain and promote the ONCE University School of Physiotherapy, at-tached to the Autonomous University of Ma-drid, from which the best physiotherapists in the world graduate every year, with a level of employment of almost one hundred percent of graduates. Despite the difficulties, a considerable num-ber of students with disabilities set their si-ghts on university, and succeed. The common goal is to get where their talent, effort and work may get them, without being held back by discrimination on grounds of disability. Swipe to read more