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 ...
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, ...
Born with a rare vision disability called achromatopsia, Zacharczenko is severely near- and far-sighted and completely colorblind. Still, he has managed to turn himself into a solid sprinter, on the ...
Despite more than 7 million Americans having some form of vision loss, many places in our communities are still not accessible for people who cannot drive and rely on public transportation. Recently, ...
A global program aims to help visually impaired New Yorkers access eye care. Data show more than 5% of adult New Yorkers have a vision disability, as the World Health Organization reported visual ...
No person should live with vision impairment that could be avoided or treated, and every person with chronic vision impairment should have access to health services that minimize the impact of vision ...
But more than 30 years since its passage, people with disabilities, like advocate Catarina Rivera, say there is still more work to be done—both in the way we accommodate people with disabilities and ...
KANAWHA - Kanawha businessman Larry Cooper has long been known for his community service, but more impressive than those contributions is how Cooper overcomes a severe vision disability with fight and ...