Colin Wong, a blind Ph.D. student, can’t forget having to pay US$100 for an Uber when he needed to take a standardized test. There was no testing center in San Francisco, where he lived, that could ...

Nathan Koenig was articulate, with an impressive vocabulary. As early as age 3 in preschool, he showed a knack for storytelling, creating detailed characters and plotlines. But once he started school, ...

East Hanover, NJ – May 23, 2023 – New data show that while individuals with visual disabilities were slow to recover employment because of the effects of the COVID-2019 lockdown, they have made ...

Approximately 7 million people in the United States have vision impairment, including about 1 million people with blindness. As of 2012, 4.2 million Americans aged 40 or older have uncorrectable ...

In her childhood bedroom, Maxine Collard had a PC connected to a cathode-ray tube monitor so massive it bowed her desk into a smile that grew deeper every year. Collard has oculocutaneous albinism, ...

Despite more than 7 million Americans having some form of vision loss, many places in our communities are still not accessible for people who cannot drive and rely on public transportation. Recently, ...

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Hartford has integrated dental and vision coverage with its group disability and life insurance enabling brokers to create comprehensive benefits packages for ...

Born with a rare vision disability called achromatopsia, Zacharczenko is severely near- and far-sighted and completely colorblind. Still, he has managed to turn himself into a solid sprinter, on the ...

But more than 30 years since its passage, people with disabilities, like advocate Catarina Rivera, say there is still more work to be done—both in the way we accommodate people with disabilities and ...