Amazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.
The state of Wisconsin does not have to pay $225,000 to a blind businesswoman in a dispute over an Army dining contract, a federal judge ruled this week.
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Social Security Administration must provide information on benefits in a way that is accessible to blind people.
Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, the Associated Press has learned. But air safety authorities did not order their replacement until after the crash, which killed all 228 people aboard.
Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, The Associated Press has learned. But air safety authorities did not order their replacement until after the crash, which killed all 228 people aboard.
Authorities in eastern Texas say a legally blind woman died after being swept away by flood waters while walking to a relative's home.
Several blind people were able to get behind the wheel of a new high-tech vehicle designed by Virginia Tech engineering students.
A 3-year-old Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has returned home to Baghdad with a new set of prosthetic eyes after a trip to London for medical treatment.
A man who says he is blind faces an arraignment Friday on suspicion of creating a disturbance on a plane delayed in Philadelphia.
Seeing-eye dogs are a nonstarter among many Muslims who consider the animals unclean, but a horse the size of a dog just might work.
A 3-year-old Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has traveled to India and Jordan in her family's quest to restore her vision.
A Chinese human rights activist who was imprisoned after he documented forced abortions and other abuses has been denied medical care in prison and is in poor health, his wife and a human rights group said Thursday.
Wisconsin has appealed $225,000 in damages that it was ordered to pay a blind businesswoman for failing to supervise her work under a government program promoting employment for the blind.
Students at the Ohio State School for the Blind screamed with joy when they learned their marching band will make history at the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Most teens listen to their music on digital players, but Cory Cadlik, who is blind, had to ask for help when he wanted to buy songs for his iPod from the online music store iTunes.
When the next generations of $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills roll off the presses, there should be some way for blind people to tell them apart, a federal judge said Thursday.
Stage actors love theater. Film actors see movies. Musicians dig concerts by their fellow musicians. But TV performers just don't seem to catch much TV, according to an unofficial survey spanning years of interviews I've had with them.
For blind students, surfing the Web or taking detailed notes in physics and calculus classes can require cumbersome and expensive learning aids. Two new technologies, however, promise to greatly expand access to text and graphics for the blind community without breaking the bank.
When Capt. Ivan Castro joined the Army, he set goals: to jump out of planes, kick in doors and lead soldiers into combat. He achieved them all. Then the mortar round landed five feet away, blasting away his sight.
Close your eyes, reach into your wallet and try to distinguish between a $1 bill and a $5 bill. Impossible? It's also discriminatory, a federal appeals court says.
A 78-year-old legally blind man nicknamed "The Hammer" has bowled a perfect game. Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa, nailed 12 consecutive strikes and reached 300 on Saturday night during league play.
A legally blind man beat up an intruder and held him at knifepoint until police arrived at the man's eastside home, authorities said. Allan Kieta, 49, told police he was at home Monday morning when his small dog began barking and he encountered the man.
An 85-year-old legally blind golfer from southern Arizona made a hole-in-one this week on a par-3 course. Robert Dunham accomplished the feat on the third hole at Tortuga in Green Valley.
A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one? Leo Fiyalko couldn't see it, but his golf buddies did — a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at the Cove Cay Country Club.
A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one?
General Motors will announce Wednesday that it's working with one of the largest advocacy organizations for the vision-impaired to find ways for the next-generation electric cars to make enough noise that pedestrians can hear them coming.
This is the shocking image of a Labrador guide dog being savagely attacked by a pitbull-cross dog in a railway station subway. A 57-year-old blind woman was walking through Cricklewood station when her guide dog, Neela, a brown Labrador, was attacked by another dog.
I have come to the inevitable conclusion that President Obama's ascendancy to the Oval Office was made possible mainly by a failure of the majority of the American electorate to recognize a multitude of patterns concerning Barack Hussein Obama, the individual, his modus operand …
scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.
The boy relied on a cane and adults to guide him, and, unable to see blackboard writing, sat in back with a teacher's aide, large-type computer screen and materials in Braille.
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Limbaugh: I'm interested in people's hearts and souls... I'm colorblind..." Matthews: Yeah, right.
As if the budget cuts to the elderly and disable weren't debilitating enough, the Austrian Immigrant has decided to strike another blow against those who cannot speak for themselves. The latest scam targets not only the elderly, but the blind and other disabled citizens.
"A blind seven-year-old boy has learnt how to 'see' with his ears."
Monique Zimmerman-Stein has been nearly blind for the last two years from Stickler syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. She recently decided to forego her own treatment to save funds to treat her two daughters, who also suffer from the condition.
One everyday problem for people who are blind or have very limited sight is distinguishing things that are completely identical to the sense of touch, such as different CDs and DVDs, or canned goods that are all the same size and shape.
Patient TN was, by his own account, completely blind. Two consecutive strokes had destroyed the visual cortex of his brain, and consequently, his ability to see...
A blind tourist seeking adventure at Sea Life Park said she instead found disappointment and a dashed dream.
High school teammates carry on
DEARBORN (Michigan) - MONA Ramouni's fingers fly across the text as she proofreads yet another page of a calculus textbook to be published in Braille - with her guide pony sitting patiently by.
excerpt: ""Cuts are invariably cruel, no matter how necessary they are deemed. But there's one that stands out as much for the way it was sold as the pain it will bring to those least able to absorb it.
A blind man is able to see his wife for the first time - after having a tooth implanted into his eye.
Charly Sissons lost her eyesight last year, but regained it in March 2009 apparently due to the "shock" of her grandmother's death.
Accurate to 1 second in a million years, it features atomic timekeeping - ensuring perfect timing by receiving signals from UK, European, American and Japanese radio transmitters. Watch can be set manually for countries with no signal.
Dino Papadakis is 77 years old, legally blind and in a wheelchair because of back injuries.
A BLIND INTERNATIONAL interpreter who says he was dragged off a Belgium-bound flight, arrested and held in custody in Philadelphia for hours without food or water faces an arraignment Thursday. His crime: He questioned why his U.S. Airways flight was delayed nearly two hours.
A REVOLUTIONARY sat nav that directs guide dogs for blind people has been invented by a British boffin. The device clips on to the dog's harness and vibrates on the left or right side to tell the handler which direction to go in.
As 17-year-old Sean Cross, a star high school athlete, rode his bike on Frankford Avenue, a van pulled up alongside and a passenger opened fire with a paintball gun.
FORT WORTH --- What's a horse doing in the dairy aisle at Target?