A genetic eye condition pushed biochemist Kamini Govender to develop coping strategies that serve her well in the lab and help her to avoid burnout. Now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of the ...

ReBokeh's platform at work. “Have you met Dr. Bonnie Swenor?” According to Rebecca Rosenberg, the founder of ReBokeh, the partnership between her assistive technology startup and Johns Hopkins ...

Kathryn Locke is employed as a researcher on the Australian Research Council's discovery grant, "Diversifying audio description in the Australian digital landscape". Tama Leaver receives funding from ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) -- February is low vision awareness month. WDRB's Keith Kaiser found a clinic helping people with visual impairments. The Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation (KLEF) Low Vision Clinic ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—With renewed support from two major national grants, Mississippi State University’s National Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision, or NRTC, will continue changing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

The SANFL Blind Low Vision (BLV) League will begin in March. It will offer participants the chance to play modified competitive football in a supportive and inclusive setting. The League is supported ...

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, ...

The Canadian drama about a homicide detective who experiences sudden vision loss explores the relationships that blind people have in community and with technology. By Abbey White Associate Editor & ...