Prevent Blindness, the nation's leading patient advocacy organization dedicated to preventing blindness and preserving sight, ...

Vision impairment poses an enormous global financial burden, with the annual global cost of productivity estimated to be US$ 411 billion. Vision loss can affect people of all ages; however, most ...

Assistive technologies like screen readers go a long way toward closing the gap between people who are blind or have low vision and their sighted peers. But the technologies often hit roadblocks ...

Science is giving sight, sound, and speech a second chance. How might it change the way we age?

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 ...

With the squeal of a whistle and a call for quiet, players at the Washington State School for the Blind in Vancouver faced off in a silent gymnasium. They wore blacked-out goggles and crouched in an ...

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 ...

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 ...