Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine that you have low vision and you’re completing an online job application using screen reader software. You get through ...

Engineering and social sciences are widely considered to be separate fields of practice. However, all technology we develop has the capacity to shape the society in which it is applied. This spring ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new assistive technologies for the blind based on advances in computer vision that have emerged from research in robotics. A ...

New York (CNN) — When Matthew Sherwood goes shopping for clothes, he needs help to ensure that what he’s picking up is the color or style he’s looking for. Sherwood has been blind for more than 15 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Accessibility features in mainstream technology are not as reliable as those in dedicated assistive devices.

Assistive technology is expensive, and many people with disabilities live on fixed incomes. Disabled assistive tech users also must contend with equipment that was often designed without any capacity ...

After 33 years of providing resources, devices, and training for self-sufficiency, Signal Centers’ Assistive Technology Services is turning a new chapter with Deardra McGee at the lead. Ms. McGee was ...

A few years ago, as a young woman with wild hopes and dreams, when I began losing my sight, I feared that my world would ...

This is a guest post by Charles Sammartino, director of the assistive technology program at Inglis, which serves the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with hubs in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Technology ...