“We’ve worked through for two years basically turning a blind eye to the whole thing but that will stop,” said Richard Grogan, an employment law solicitor in Dublin.

For many, the X1 Talking Guide and voice remote may be cool toys. For the blind community, however, it’s a crucial accessibility tool. For blind people, watching TV is part of full participation in ...

Remote work has finally made me — a legally-blind person — feel like I can thrive at my job. I'm sad it took this long.

A local company wants to fill the gap of high unemployment among the blind and visually-impaired by offering their assistive technology free of charge to job-seekers.

The sailing experiment is part of Mr. Gallagher's broader project to offer a remote guidance system to help the blind perform everyday tasks from reading expiration dates on food packaging to ...

Tracey McCann is head of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) Teleschool which teaches vision impaired children to read braille.

A new app has been developed that connects blind and partially sighted people with “remote operators” to guide them through day-to-day tasks. The revolutionary mobile tech claims to give ...

Despite the technology being available, people who are blind or have low vision have no way of voting independently. Vision Australia is calling for the introduction of a remote electronic voting ...