A Bay Area company believes a little glass and some cutting-edge technology could offer a new kind of world view to visually impaired people. Kevin Chao of Oakland, who's been blind since the age of ...

When I was a teenager, a professor my parents knew heard that I wanted to major in physics. Because I am blind, he told my parents that wouldn’t be possible: “Physicists,” he informed us, “have to be ...

When inventor and scientist Josh Miele was 4 years old, a neighbor poured sulfuric acid on his head, burning and permanently blinding him. In his new book Connecting Dots: A Blind Life, Miele ...

Blindness found me when I turned 60. For me, blindness was a mindless, faceless, voracious beast that consumed my sighted self. I emerged as a sightless shadow self and started to rebuild my life.

That moment when someone mentions a blind person, what image pops into your mind? Probably someone in dark glasses navigating with a white cane, completely unable to perceive the world around them.