Three Different Carroll Center Alumni Selected As Finalists For 2019 Holman Prize
...group of finalists. These determined finalists hope to make a real difference on the way blindness and visual impairment is perceived globally. Check out each of their submissions below: Trevor...
Making A Positive Impact for the Visually Impaired
...help her adjust to being blind. She said going from perfect vision to seeing nothing was traumatic, and it took her a long time to reconcile her blindness. Katulak, now...
Walmart Announces Rollout of ScripTalk Service, Providing Accessible Prescription Labels Across U.S.
...retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic eye disease that results in progressive loss of sight and eventual blindness. After a trip to Boston to visit a specialist, the diagnosis was confirmed....
Why Inclusive Cities Start with Safe Streets
...or healthy.” ASLA’s universal design guidelines consider physical disabilities like limited mobility, blindness and low-vision, and Deafness and hardness of hearing; people with neuro-cognitive disorders like dementia and Alzheimer’s disease;...
For the Blind in Massachusetts, a High-Tech Boost
...for the Blind, more than 128,000 state residents report having “vision difficulty,” ranging from total blindness to serious difficulty seeing. Legally blind individuals who register with the Massachusetts Commission for...
Haben Girma: My Disability Has Been an Opportunity for Innovation
...at Lewis & Clark college in Portland, Oregon. “I asked the cafeteria manager to provide something that I as a deafblind student could access,” she says. “Blindness wasn’t the problem:...
Memes Still Aren’t Accessible to People Who Are Blind. What’s Being Done About It?
...front of a determined-looking face. “Success kid” is one of the most popular online memes in history. But for the 2.2 billion people worldwide who report visual impairments or blindness,...
Assistive Technology Device Lab to Empower Individuals with Vision Loss
...blindness. Both free and paid mobile applications like Aira or Microsoft’s Seeing AI provide the ability to narrate the world through your smartphone camera—reading out street signs, printed text, and...
This Blind Gamer Is Fighting for Accessibility in Video Games
...voices become the more people start paying attention.” Saylor’s channel also helps disprove many common myths about blindness…. Read the full story about Steve Saylor fighting for video game accessibility...
Why Reddit Has Become A Favorite Social Media Platform for Many Blind and Visually Impaired People
...strangers to interact with, and a community of users from all over the world who live with blindness or visual impairments. On Reddit, Proulx has been an active user for...
