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 ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new technical assistance document (“TAD”), “Visual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” addressing how the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In an effort to be more inclusive, Lego is rolling out a first-of-its-kind set designed to help those with vision disabilities learn to read. The company said this month that it will make Braille ...

A global program aims to help visually impaired New Yorkers access eye care. Data show more than 5% of adult New Yorkers have a vision disability, as the World Health Organization reported visual ...

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 ...