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 ...

Approximately 7 million people in the United States have vision impairment, including about 1 million people with blindness. As of 2012, 4.2 million Americans aged 40 or older have uncorrectable ...

East Hanover, NJ – May 23, 2023 – New data show that while individuals with visual disabilities were slow to recover employment because of the effects of the COVID-2019 lockdown, they have made ...

Experts have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in the United States and other industrialized nations.

Editor’s Note: The following column was previously published Jan. 16, 2021. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase ...

MadAbility, run by Yuhang Zhao, is developing access technology that relies on machine learning to fill information gaps for people who are blind or have low vision.

Academic publishing company Wiley recently added interactive visualization tools to its college chemistry courseware to make the subject more accessible to vision-impaired students. According to a ...

PHOENIX — The Arizona prison system was found to have discriminated against inmates with vision disabilities, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The determination was the result of a ...