Dan Tolva has written a book on the history of Washington State School for the Blind, published in large print, Braille and audio book. Tolva attended the Vancouver school from 1955 until 1967, when ...

MIT fellow Elizabeth Goldring works with scientists and produces art to help the nearly blind see more than light and shadows. Images: Visuals for the nearly blind In a software-driven world, it's ...

ASHEVILLE – The last thing Joseph Rehmatullah wanted to do when he immigrated to America was to be reliant on government assistance. Despite becoming blind after contracting measles as a 5-year-old, ...

Smart glasses that use a technique similar to a bat's echolocation could help blind and low-vision people navigate their surroundings, according to researchers. ustralian researchers have developed ...

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 ...

Nothing makes you appreciate your vision more than getting a little older and realizing that it used to be better and that it will probably get worse. But imagine how much more difficult it would be ...

The case marks the first time sight has been partially restored using optogenetics, a type of biological research aimed at controlling nerve cells via light. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, ...

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 ...

This article is the first in a series on “Tech that Unites Us," which explores emerging technologies that help people connect on a deeper level. Imagine waking up one morning to find yourself blind ...

In some forms of blindness, certain parts of the eye still work but damage to light-sensitive cells disrupts vision. Now, researchers at a company called Nanoscope have used gene therapy to bypass ...

Imagine what suffering from retinitis pigmentosa is like. Imagine gradually losing your vision over the course of forty years, waking up every morning with a tiny bit more of your peripheral vision ...

Adults with a hereditary form of childhood-onset blindness experienced dramatic improvements in night vision within days of receiving an experimental gene therapy. The corresponding study was ...