On a hill overlooking a small airport whose runway stretches into the Ligurian Sea sits the Unit for Visually Impaired People, part of the Italian Institute for Technology (IIT) in Genoa.

People who are blind or visually impaired fall within a wide range of visual acuities. ... “There’s so much technology out now that using the audible format is great,” she says.

Sight Savers America is working to put visual assistive technology into the hands of those who need it. All recipients have severe visual impairments that cannot be corrected with eyeglasses ...

Sight Saver America helped Bay County residents acquire high-tech vision aids, then taught them how to use the equipment.

Children in the Lafayette area with severe visual impairments receive donations of life-changing assistive technology to enhance their vision. News Sports Business Living Things To Do Advertise ...

Globally, assistive technology is a booming sector — yet most of the devices are developed in the Global North, priced in ...

People with deaf-blindness have both hearing and visual impairments. Some deaf-blind people have profound blindness and deafness, while others can use their hearing and vision to varying extents.

A new report explores how to leverage low-cost methods to enable people with blindness, deaf-blindness, visual impairment or low vision to more easily move through public, urban indoor and outdoor ...

Apple Inc. unveiled an array of new features to make its products more accessible to users who suffer from cognitive, visual and speech impairments. In a news release Wednesday, Apple said its new ...

Nearly 30 middle and high school students with hearing loss and visual impairments toured the Westmoreland County Community College’s Advanced Technology Center in East Huntingdon recently to ...

C-Print® is a speech-to-text (captioning) technology and service developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology. The system successfully is ...