The white cane for the 21st century. While many tech companies have increasingly worked to make technology more accessible ...

Cataracts, glaucoma, and refractive errors are just a few examples of conditions that cause visual impairment, a decline in your ability to see that’s significant enough to affect daily life.

Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging sheds light on how psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, affect the brain’s ...

Blind and visually impaired people use audio descriptions to hear this visual information, but developers often leave out their voices in the design of these tools, such as audio readers.

A growing number of local governments in Japan are using a smartphone app to help visually impaired residents access critical information in the event of a natural disaster. In response to ...

Dec. 16, 2024 — A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images ...

Toronto police say no injuries were reported after a suspected impaired driver crashed their vehicle into a TTC bus on New Year’s Eve. It happened at approximately 8:45 p.m. near Allen Road and ...

Lifetime driving bans will now also be handed out if the DUI leads to death Strict new regulations targeting Ontario drivers who choose to drive whilst impaired have just come into effect at the ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its final investigation report finding that a ramp agent’s "cognitive impairment" resulted in their death from being ingested into ...

Credit: josefkubes/Shutterstock. Porsche SE, a top shareholder of Volkswagen, has announced assuming a negative non-cash impairment from €7bn ($7.4bn) to up to €20bn ($21bn) on its stake in ...

US investigators have determined that a ramp agent experienced cognitive impairment before a fatal engine-ingestion accident at Montgomery, adding that she suffered from multiple sclerosis and had ...