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 ...

Ana Moss overcame vision loss and health challenges to earn a spot on the U.S. women's blind cricket team competing in the ...

Delaware's Shannon Britt is making history, heading to the first Women's T20 Cricket World Cup for the Blind on Team USA.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mammogram results. Credit: Shutterstock Practical lessons at a tactile medical examiner training. Discovering Hands is training blind and low vision women to leverage their sense of touch to conduct ...

A group of blind women have created a nude calendar to challenge the stigma surrounding vision loss and to show they are ...

Passwords remain the go-to authentication tool in everyday life, says CISPA researcher Alexander Ponticello. At the same time, passwords are often a security weak spot: too short, too simple, and ...

First developed in 1983, the Blindness and Low Vision Studies (BLVS) Department offers four master’s degrees and certificate programs in Low Vision Rehabilitation (LVR), Orientation and Mobility (O&M) ...