In a world driven by screens, one North Texas nonprofit is making sure no one gets left behind. Computers for the Blind, based in Dallas, is opening doors for people across the country who are blind ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches showed WPTV journalist T.A. Walker what it was like to not only be blind, but to learn household and computer skills. The group ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) – Facebook is training its computers to become seeing-eye guides for blind and visually impaired people as they scroll through the pictures posted on the world’s largest online ...

Shahin Alam speaks through a microphone, his laptop and keyboard nestled between stacks of books on his small wooden desk, as he talks to his online students from his home in Bangladesh. But while his ...

A university-developed online service will let blind and visually impaired people surf the Web without having to download complex or buy costly client software. Developed by University of Washington ...

Recipients of Computers for the Blind, a Richardson-based nonprofit, said the software has changed their lives. 22,504 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than ...

The release of an esoteric plug-in for a twenty-year-old piece of software normally doesn’t merit much attention… except when the software is the ubiquitous Microsoft Word, and the add-on could have a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Blind people who live in Columbia have access to several resources through the Federation Center of the Blind. The center is located on South Kilbourne Road near the Rosewood ...

In 1985, there was not a 7-year-old on the planet with a better working knowledge of the goings on in Genoa City, the fictional setting of “The Young and the Restless,” than me. The daytime drama was ...