Your Business's Website May Be Unusable to the Blind

Your Business's Website May Be Unusable to the Blind.

While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) established rules to help disabled Americans access businesses in the real world, accessing online businesses has become a growing problem in recent years, stemming from a lack of accessibility options on many websites. As a result, online businesses are running the risk of alienating visually impaired consumers and potentially locking themselves out of a major revenue stream in the process, according to a newly released study.

AR glasses can help visually impaired navigate better

New York, Augmented Reality (AR) glasses can help people with low vision better navigate their environment as the eye-wearable device managed to enhance mobility and function in patients who have difficulty with peripheral vision or seeing in low light, say researchers.

The research was conducted with patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited degenerative eye disease that results in poor vision.

Radio stations for the blind could go off air over NDIS funding shortfall

The non-profit that runs a network of radio stations for Australia’s blind and low vision community says it will be off the air by next year unless the government intervenes to restore its funding.

Vision Australia, which operates 10 radio stations across Victoria, southern New South Wales, Adelaide and Perth, says it is facing a $700,000 shortfall after responsibility for disability funding was transferred to the national disability insurance scheme.

Scientists develop new implant that can restore eyesight in blind people

Scientists have developed a new eye implant called OpticSELINE which stimulates the optic nerve through an intraneural electrode and restores the eyesight of visually impaired people.

Scientists from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy have developed an eye implant to restore the eyesight of a blind person by stimulating the optic nerve with a new type of an intraneural electrode called OpticSELINE.

Yellow taxis that help the visually impaired will be painted black, say council

Acouncil that brought in yellow taxis to help the visually impaired plans to paint them black in a bid to save money, angering disability charities.

Derby City Council introduced a policy in 2001 to paint their cabs yellow to make them more identifiable for customers, including the partially-sighted.

But council has announced that it plans to change the colour of its taxis back to black to save drivers who have to paint and maintain the yellow vehicles.

Sahana Trust empowers visually impaired people in Karnataka

Sahana Charitable Trust for the Disabled in Bengaluru was founded by three visually impaired people. Their main motive is to empower visually impaired youngsters through education and technology. The founders share their journey on how they started this venture.

George Abraham of Score Foundation is empowering visually impaired people for a decade

Score Foundation, founded by New Delhi based George Abraham, has been providing various services to visually impaired people from across India since the year 2002. Abraham shares his inspiring journey with Newzhook readers.

Kids’ offer piggy bank savings to bring back vision of blind kid in Jharkhand

In an inspiring incident, four children offered to donate their piggy bank savings to bring back vision of a visually-impaired kid from Baghnara village in Sankarda Panchyat under Potka Blok in East Singhbhum district.

Now two city-based eye specialists have announced to conduct the eye-surgery of the completely blind 5-year-old kid, Khenka Murmu, free of cost.

Tactile breast screening by visually-impaired show promise of early detection of breast cancer in India

What is tactile breast screening?

When 42-year-old Manisha Anand got a call for a tactile breast screening to be done by a trained visually impaired woman, she called up her mother, a gynaecologist, consulted her, and signed up for the examination programme. Anand, who has a family history of breast cancer, eventually had her first tactile breast screening in June this year.

Government turns a blind eye to ‘Insight’

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The deserted ground floor of the Kerala Federation of the Blind (KFB) at Kunnukuzhi bears testimony to the bad patch the institute has been going through in the recent times. Until a year ago the place was buzzing with activities as visually-challenged people visit the office to learn using computers, internet banking and ride-hailing apps with the help of the talking software. It was also a place frequented by the visually-challenged to check lottery results or for filling PSC application forms.

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