Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Voice commands, loud tones or beeps and haptic feedback can be overwhelming for people with low vision.

Audio tools, mobile apps, and vision magnifiers can help people with vision loss navigate their lives. Tools and tech options may help read prescription labels, get the news online, or find out what’s ...

Blindness is an eye condition that most of us have heard of, but perhaps you’re not as familiar with “low vision,” despite it being significantly more common. Potentially caused by a number of things ...

A new study offers hope for people who are blind or have low vision (pBLV) through an innovative navigation system that was tested using virtual reality. The system, which combines vibrational and ...

Aira is an AI-powered accessibility platform that provides real-time assistance to help the visually impaired navigate daily challenges. Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and ...

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 ...

Low vision rehabilitation and services constitute a vital domain in ophthalmic care, aiming to maximise residual visual function through a synthesis of clinical expertise, technological innovation and ...

Kathryn Locke is employed as a researcher on the Australian Research Council's discovery grant, "Diversifying audio description in the Australian digital landscape". Tama Leaver receives funding from ...

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 ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. Vision problems sometimes go beyond what can be corrected with a stronger prescription for glasses. That’s more often ...