Colin Wong, a blind Ph.D. student, can’t forget having to pay US$100 for an Uber when he needed to take a standardized test. There was no testing center in San Francisco, where he lived, that could ...

Cathy Tuton started working at NewView, a small manufacturing facility in central Oklahoma City, over three decades ago — after she began losing her vision as a result of glaucoma and hereditary ...

The annual number of new cases of blindness and low vision among people aged 45 years and older is estimated to double during the next 30 years, suggests a study published online November 2 in JAMA ...

Blind and low-vision students at the University of Minnesota have the same concerns as students without disabilities in navigating their academic and social lives in addition to the unique ...

Blindness is completely or severely reduced vision. Contrary to popular belief, most people who are blind have some vision—only about 15% of blindness results in total vision loss. Blindness can occur ...

Imagine that you have low vision and you’re completing an online job application using screen reader software. You get through half the form and then come to a question with drop-down options the ...

Cheryl Wade has a passion for helping people who are adjusting to low vision or blindness, and she's taking a big step in that direction by restarting regular Blind and Low Vision Support Group ...

Envision's smart glasses offer a feature that, once activated, continuously describes the user's surroundings without ...

Perkins School for the Blind is launching a virtual academy to share, with educators located anywhere, techniques for teaching students with rare disabilities. Perkins Academy will kick off this ...

Recently, I attended a dinner where I was the only blind person. I decided to walk towards some voices and introduce myself. I greeted the group with a comment intended to be amusing. My comment was ...

A proliferation of new apps designed to help blind and low vision people could prove useful for everyone. By Amanda Morris This article is part of our series on the Future of Transportation, which is ...