To give freedom and independence to the visually impaired, the South African Guide-Dogs Association announced its second annual Give a Cane Campaign.

Phil Lewis, 61, will be walking along the Gower coast on 2 June in response to Blind Veterans UK’s Armed Forces Month campaign, which calls on people to ...

CHIMA AZUBUIKE writes about the harrowing experiences of visually impaired students and others at the Gombe Special ...

For many people, aging brings significant mobility challenges. This can lead to falls, which may have very serious consequences, such as hip fractures, brain injuries or worse.

In the mid-1800s, the invention of the Braille system radically changed the lives of millions of visually impaired people around the world — but how much do you know about the person who created it?

I compete in everything that everyone else does.” Such a notion might seem simplistic to most, perhaps easy to accomplish ...

A golden retriever named Rusty approaches concrete steps leading to the bathroom facilities in Cedar City's Main Street Park. He stops and crosses in front of his handler, indicating the ...

A Durban Blind Culinary School is transforming lives and challenging perceptions, empowering visually impaired chefs to ...

A woman who is visually impaired said she jumped at the chance to learn Braille despite it being like "another language".

Smart stick comes as a proposed solution to improve the mobility of both blind and visually impaired people. Stick solution use different technologies like ultrasonic, infrared and laser but they ...

To the best of our knowledge, little work has been made to leverage this abundance of resources to develop assistive devices for Visually Impaired People (VIP). However, we believe that SOs can both ...

Naqi Rizvi loves the “absolute freedom” he feels on the tennis court. Winning titles is fun, too. The 34-year-old blind ...