Vision loss can have significant effects on your daily life. You don’t need to be legally blind to qualify for certain disability benefits and support. Share on Pinterest SeventyFour/Getty Images ...

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 ...

Rather than relying only on clinical measures of visual impairment, surveys could capture if a person is able to perform ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new technical assistance document (“TAD”), “Visual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” addressing how the ...

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 headway, depending on their level of ...

Aims To investigate the association between visual impairment (VI) and cognitive impairment in middle-aged and older adults ...

Economic modeling suggested meaningful savings via reduced disability costs and avoidance of inpatient admissions for compounded ophthalmic therapy, with projected annual patient savings of roughly ...

COVID-19 vaccine initiation is lower among adults with vision or hearing disabilities compared with adults without disabilities, according to a study published online Aug. 11 in JAMA Ophthalmology.

A federal court ruled that New York must install thousands of accessible pedestrian signals at intersections throughout the city. Thousands of new crosswalk signals will be installed in New York City ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young blind man prepares to board a Denver RTD light rail train in 2019. Robert Alexander/GettyImages Colin Wong, a blind Ph.D.