Living with a disability means you often struggle to do what most people would consider “normal” things. You have to get used ...
About 12 million Americans over the age of 40 are blind or visually impaired, according to the CDC. Because of the variety of visual impairments that exist, it’s difficult to generalize about the ...
A groundbreaking piece of navigation technology that uses the ability to sense information through touch can help people with visual impairment perform a location task as well as sighted people, ...
The Clinton Presidential Library has become the first presidential library in the nation to offer ReBokeh, an emerging ...
The white cane for the 21st century. While many tech companies have increasingly worked to make technology more accessible for the blind and visually impaired, canes haven’t benefited much from these ...
When an optometrist asked Trevor Landurand ’23 to read the letters on an eye chart during the summer following his sophomore year, he responded, “I’m still waiting for the eye chart to go up.” The ...
A University of Texas at Dallas researcher and his collaborators have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tool ...
Researchers at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and Grossman School of Medicine have created an app to help people with visual impairments navigate New York City’s subway system. Commute Booster ...
Older adults with a diagnosis of dementia more commonly have visual impairment (VI), which is associated with negative effects in both the older adult and their caregivers, according to a review ...