Visually Impaired

Blind Facebook employee develops tech which uses AI to verbalise content of an image or video to help visually impaired

Facebook engineer Matt King is leading a project that is making solutions for visually impaired people on the platform that could eventually be used to identify images and videos

At the India Art Festival, the most original work is by a group of visually impaired children

Shivani Bharadwaj, who teaches visually impaired children to draw, is showcasing their works at the India Art Festival in Delhi | #FWeekend

Murray Ward in custody for sodomising children: Accused was regular visitor of Delhi home for visually challenged

Murray Ward, a 54-year-old British national was recently arrested in New Delhi for sodomising visually challenged children at an institution, with which he had been associated for nine years

Facebook live to allow publishers to stream third-party closed captions

Facebook live is allowing publishers to create and stream closed captions for their Live videos either on their own or with the help of a technology vendor.

Project Torino is a physical coding language by Microsoft that allows visually impaired children to code

Microsoft designers and researchers at the company's lab in Cambridge, UK are working on a system that allows children with visual impairments to code.

Apple screen reading tech VoiceOver allows the visually impaired to build applications

Using VoiceOver with Apple's Swift Playground, allows visually impaired users to code games and applications.

Researchers develop miniature camera rig to give audio cues to the visually impaired

Researchers have developed a miniature camera that can be mounted onto the eyeglasses of people who are legally blind and dramatically improve their ability to read an email or a newspaper article.

Google Voice Access beta now available, lets you control Android devices by speaking

Google has launched Voice Access beta for users.

Chip powers wearable device to guide visually-impaired

Researchers, including two Indians, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a low-power chip that could help visually-impaired people navigate their environments.

New finger-mounted device from MIT converts text to audio for visually impaired

MIT researchers have developed a finger-worn device with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for the visually impaired.