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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY | Technologies often hit roadblocks because the information they are designed to work with – documents, websites and software programs – don’t work with them. Imagine that you have low ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long-time advocate for tāngata whaikaha Māori, Mrs Christina (Chrissie) Cowan, has been appointed an Officer of the New ...

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 ...

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 ...