Sir Elton John has a “new respect for sight-impaired people”. The 77-year-old ‘Rocket Man’ singer has been suffering severely deteriorating vision after he recently contracted an eye infection that ...

During the men’s gymnastics pommel horse finals at Saturday’s Olympics, pommel horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik abandoned his glasses before he stepped up to the apparatus. He stuck the landing, ...

Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Andrea Bocelli. If you were to ask a random person to name a blind musician, one of those three would almost inevitably come up. Ask that same person about up-and-coming ...

Academic publishing company Wiley recently added interactive visualization tools to its college chemistry courseware to make the subject more accessible to vision-impaired students. According to a ...

You won’t catch me backing off the edge of a 10-story building and rappelling 120 to the ground. Just considering it makes me tremble, but that’s just what Cindy Lou Altman did recently in Lancaster.

FARGO — A local support group for people who are blind and sight impaired in the Fargo area has scheduled its next monthly meeting. The Insight meeting is set for 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, in ...

A University of Texas at Dallas researcher and his collaborators have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tool that makes it possible for visually impaired computer programmers to ...

During the men’s gymnastics pommel horse finals at Saturday’s Olympics, pommel horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik abandoned his glasses before he stepped up to the apparatus. He stuck the landing, ...

Filling in the gaps Vision is an important part of an Olympic athlete competing in their sport, but when vision is impaired other senses step up to the plate, according to Sarlegna. “When you lose one ...