Despite the availability of haptic, or touch, devices for visually impaired supporters at the Africa Cup of Nations, none ...

The session was a reminder that providing accessibility doesn’t necessarily mean rebuilding from the ground up ...

The term "blindness" describes a wide range of vision loss, ranging from low vision quality to total blindness. The way blind people see the world depends on the type, severity, and duration of their ...

A multi-university research team, including the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has developed A11yShape, a new tool designed to help blind and low-vision programmers independently create, inspect ...

In the early 19th Century, a French teenager at the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris wanted more access to books ...

A heartwarming yet thought-provoking story of Gary, a man who lost his vision, experiencing the joy of "driving" again ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has a range of benefits and discounts available to people over State Pension age - ...

The tobacco industry rebranded a brutally addictive drug from deadly to desirable—and the longer-term health consequences may ...

Introduction Visual Hallucinations (VHs) (seeing things that others do not, or visions) are a common feature of psychosis, causing significant distress and disability. Services rarely ask about these ...

The actual use-value of smart glasses remains keenly debated—but less so among blind people, who are increasingly relying on ...

Sighted people may not realize when their help is inappropriate. One common type of inappropriate help is motivated by ...

Blind people have used label makers to print labels in Braille for some time, but they're expensive, costing upwards of ...