Technology Today News Digital Inaccessibility Blind And Low Vision People Have Powerful Technology But Still Face Barriers To The Digital World

New assistive technology device communicates facial expressions to people who are blind

GOLDEN, Colo. — An innovative, new device is helping people who are blind or low-vision feel facial expressions. HapWare uses haptics or vibrations on the wrist to relay visual cues like gestures. It ... Read More

Solos is equipping its smart glasses with an AI for the blind and low-vision community

Solos is teaming up with Envision, a company that makes assistive technology for the blind and low-vision community, to add an AI called Ally to its AirGo smart glasses platform. This chatbot was ... Read More

North Texas nonprofit transforms lives by bringing technology to the blind

In a world driven by screens, one North Texas nonprofit is making sure no one gets left behind. Computers for the Blind, based in Dallas, is opening doors for people across the country who are blind ... Read More

Ally Solos Smart Glasses Use AI To Act As Eyes For Blind And Low-Vision Users

Envision, a smart glasses manufacturing company, recently launched its Ally Solos Glasses, which promise to use AI to help the visually impaired navigate the world more safely. To that end, Envision ... Read More

Bionic eye restores vision in 95% of blind patients

The advent of bionic eye technology has revolutionized the way we perceive possibilities in medical science. With this technology, an astounding 95% of blind patients have regained some measure of ... Read More

How blind and low-vision users manage their passwords

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 ... Read More

Do we need to see to gesture? How blind people express concepts without vision

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how ... Read More