McDonald's will add assistive technology for blind customers at all company-owned restaurants in the U.S. by the end of this year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The technology will ...

Screen reader software converts text to audio for people who are blind. Imagine that you have low vision and you’re completing an online job application using screen reader software. You get through ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to the Optometrists Network, one in six adults older than 45 years and one in four older than 75 has ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new assistive technologies for the blind based on advances in computer vision that have emerged from research in robotics. A ...

eSight Announces Newest Generation of Assistive Device for the Legally Blind, eSight Go Previewing at CES 2023, the wearable device marks a new generation of versatile assistive devices for people ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A standard textbook for primary or secondary school students is a robust learning tool rich with photographs, illustrations, charts, maps: visual images that bring the words to life.

TALLADEGA — The Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind on Friday, May 30, played host to an all-day technology symposium titled, “Driving Innovation: advancing accessibility for individuals with ...

Mike Fish puts a bill on the table and places his iPhone on top of it. Within seconds, a money reader app announces: “Five dollars, five dollars, five dollars!” “I’d like the money maker application, ...

If you have advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), you may have some challenges in living independently. But there are tools to make life with low vision from AMD easier. Today, assistive ...

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 ...