Blind News
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Microsoft has publicly launched an app that narrates the environment around its user to help blind people "see." Using artificial intelligence, it identifies people, documents and images in the surroundings and narrates their details, empowering the user.
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Virtual reality is beginning to make progress in the field of medicine. Two recent examples are helping visually impaired users navigate and with easing phantom limb pain.
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In a major breakthrough scientists from University of California San Diego and the company Nanovision Biosciences Inc., are on the cusp of developing nano-sized implants that can restore sight to a blind person.
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The campaign to eliminate the bacterial blindness disease trachoma has received a boost with a $11.7 million donate from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The funding, for research, will be handled by The Carter Center among other bodies.
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The NHS, England's national healthcare system, will pay for 10 blind patients to have bionic eyes. The eyes will treat them for an inherited form of blindness.
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While many sociologists raise concerns about the excessive playing of video games, for the visually impaired the active engagement with video game may actually be a good thing, helping vision to improve.
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Newtownabbey -
Lena Lupari, 26, from Northern Ireland, is slowly going blind after she consumed an average of 28 cans of Red Bull every single day.
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Chicago -
One of the biggest ongoing advocacy efforts by anyone in the disability community is employment awareness. Activists promote the message that disabled people are just as competent, sometimes better, workers than their non disabled colleagues
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Auckland -
A New Zealand woman who hasn't been able to see since she was 11 can see again after she hit her head on a coffee table.
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A team of researchers in Denmark has compared the dreams of sighted and blind individuals. Their findings show that the blind have four times as many nightmares as sighted individuals, and they are more sensory than visual.
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Washington -
The Justice Department announced today that Attorney General Eric Holder has signed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Title III regulation for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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London -
A U.K. company called OwnFone has launched what is said to be the world's first Braille phone. The front and back of the phone has been constructed using 3D printing techniques.
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New research shows how, by converting sights to sounds, the brains of congenitally blind people respond similarly to various objects in a similar way to people who can see.
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New research shows that hearing improves in mice that were deprived of visual stimulus for a week. The experiment was designed to measure 'sensory compensation'.
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By AFP
Madrid -
After completing high school, 46-year-old Spaniard Ricardo Velesar struggled to hold down a job as a degenerative eye disease slowly robbed him of his sight.
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Saint Augustine -
Everyone remembers the teacher that has changed their lives. At The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind I had many influential teachers but one stood out for me.
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Montreal -
Pay attention when your spouse tells you to turn off the bedside lamp. He or she may not be able to sleep because the light is keeping the brain awake.
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Chicago -
His school didn't have a newspaper so he created one. His journalistic reportage tackles the oft-neglected stories on disabilities. Welcome to the world of Robert Kingett, a blind Digital Journalist whose reporting aims to educate and inspire.
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Nemeth Code is the code for mathematics and scientific notation in North America. It's regularly taught as a form of Braille study, bringing new independence into student's lives. The creator of this life-changing code died today.
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Chicago -
Amazon has provided minimal accessibility in the development of their previous Kindle devices. For the first time a Kindle device will have built in accessibility for a number of disabilities
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Iowa -
Recently a state law was passed that would allow blind and visually impaired people in Iowa to carry firearms. Residents and advocacy agents have varying opinions on the issue.
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Cape Town -
Onlookers were shocked and outraged as a famed blind guitarist, busking in Greenmarket Square, was manhandled and arrested by metro police in Cape Town, South Africa. His wife screamed for them to stop and they even smashed his treasured guitar.
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Federal regulators are unveiling draft rules to make cable and television menus accessible to the blind and visually impaired, leaving accessibility doors open
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Chicago -
Audio description for the blind and the visually impaired brings new vision to the poplar play, giving new care for accessibility
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Tel Aviv -
The blind may have a way to see in the near future. Israeli scientists at Bar-Ilan University have developed a non-evasive technological device that could help people born blind at birth to see using a bionic contact lens.
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For this prototype, a touchscreen transforms images and text into touchable patterns, enabling users to interpret facial expressions, maps, and graphics.
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Brussel -
A case involving two identical twin brothers who requested to be euthanized by doctors in Brussels prompted officials with the Belgium government to postpone a proposed amendment to the country's euthanasia laws.
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Anderson Cooper revealed on his talk show Anderson Live, that he went blind for 36 hours last week after sunburning his eyeballs while shooting on location for CBS News show 60 Minutes, in Portugal.
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Chorley -
A 61-year-old, blind, two-time stroke victim in northern England, was tasered and then handcuffed by police, who mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
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Reddit user Mantees found a tiny kitten while he was on holiday, which was five years ago, but the kitten was not your average kitten.
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Blind Image
A typical guide dog Flickr user smerikal
Lunga Nono, a blind, left-handed guitarist, playing in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town, South Africa YouTube
Digital Journalist Robert Kingett is shown interacting with a mannequin Courtesy Robert Kingett
Cali, a trained minature guide horse leads the way for a blind Michigan State University graduate student. Mira Oberman
Digital Journalist Robert Kingett Courtesy Robert Kingett
Blind people walking with canes Braille Institute
London-based OwnFone has launched the world’s first customizable Braille phone. The device uses 3D printing technology to add personalized buttons in Braille OwnPhone
Digital Journalist Robert Kingett petting a cat Courtesy Robert Kingett
Digital Journalist Robert Kingett Courtesy Robert Kingett
Digital Journalist Robert Kingett Courtesy Robert Kingett
HumanWare specializes in products for the blind and visually impaired. On photo: Prodigi Tablet handheld electronic magnifier HumanWare Group
Member of Audience using Audio Description Service at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin adiarts.ie
Walk With Us on October 15. Join the LightHouse, San Francisco, CA, for our 2nd Annual White Cane Awareness Day Walk. Celebrate the significance of this day and honor the importance the white cane has to those who are blind. LightHouse
Digital Journalist Robert Kingett relaxing at home Courtesy Robert Kingett
A page of Braille close-up by mstcweb
A person reading a book written in Braille by domi-san
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