Vision impairment and blindness

Clark Roberts, a blind Seattle Seahawks fan, uses a OneCourt tablet, a tactile device that translates gameplay into trackable vibrations along with real-time audio, at the T-Mobile Innovation Hub Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball

Some blind and low-vision fans will have unprecedented access to the Super Bowl thanks to a tactile device that tracks the ball, vibrates on key plays and provides real-time audio.

Commuters walk along a corridor in the World Trade Center, Monday, Nov. 18, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

If someone’s always late, is it time blindness, or are they just being rude?

In this photo provided by EssilorLuxottica in October 2025, refractions caused by lenslets embedded in the company's Stellest eyeglass lens are projected onto a table. (Luxottica via AP)

New FDA-approved glasses can slow nearsightedness in kids

This image released by Netflix shows a scene from "Love is Blind: México." (Netflix via AP)

How ‘Love is Blind’ is reshaping global views on love, from Japan to Brazil

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang poses for a photo before President Donald Trump speaks during an AI summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US will get a 15% cut of Nvidia and AMD chip sales to China under a new, unusual agreement

Disabled fencers face off to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Rome

Disabled fencers, including world champions and medalists, faced off in Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday. (AP Video/Andrea Rosa)

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Blind tennis champion Naqi Rizvi plays a shot during a visually impaired tennis training session in London, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

AP PHOTOS: Blind Tennis Naqi’s Journey

Blind tennis champion Naqi Rizvi plays a shot during a visually impaired tennis training session in London, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Blind tennis champion Naqi Rizvi lobbies for sport’s awareness and Paralympic inclusion

This selfie provided by Merete Buljo shows herself, right, and Tonje Thoresen, both from Norway, during the 5-day Princesses Rally, in Chablis, Burgundy, on May 18, 2025. (Merete Buljo via AP)

The navigator is blind and the driver’s in pain, but they’re racing though France, busting barriers

Amadou Ndiaye holds a Braille tablet in Bamako, Mali, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

200 years after the creation of braille, blind people in Mali say it has allowed them to fit in

Kenya clothing firm launches braille fashion line for the blind

In this image provided by Dawn Felicani, Tiki, a 20-year-old blind cat, walks on the thin ice of Nabnasset Pond, before being rescued, Monday Dec. 16, 2024, in Westford, Mass. (Dawn Felicani via AP)

A 20-year-old blind cat is rescued from an icy Massachusetts pond after some quick thinking

Takosangba Pongen, 27, a blind pianist, performs at a shopping mall during the two-day Brillante Piano Festival in Bengaluru, India, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

A blind pianist from Nagaland says music is ‘one thing that has kept me alive’

Italy's Valentina Petrillo trains in Pieve di Cento, near Bologna, Italy, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympic Games at the end of this month in Paris. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

This transgender sprinter will compete at the Paralympics

David Kratochvil, a teenage swimmer who prepares for the Paralympic Games in Paris, poses for a photo during his training in Tachov, Czech Republic, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

‘Trust your tappers': Blind teenage swimmer David Kratochvíl is Czech medal hopeful at Paralympics

Technological innovations enable people with visual impairments to engage with Olympic events

California made it easier to vote, but some with disabilities still face barriers

FILE - Darien Harris walks toward his wife's vehicle outside Cook County Jail after prosecutors dropped charges against Harris for a fatal 2011 shooting, Dec. 19, 2023, Cook County, Ill. Harris filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in April 2024 alleging police fabricated evidence and coerced witnesses into making false statements, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday, May 27, 2024. He was 12 years into a 76-year prison sentence when he was freed in December 2023 after The Exoneration Project showed that the eyewitness had advanced glaucoma and lied about his eyesight issues. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Man convicted of Chicago murder based on blind witness’ testimony sues city, police

The cosmetics industry is urged to do more for blind and visually impaired consumers

The cosmetics industry is urged to do more for blind and visually impaired consumers

FILE - Maureen Reid, left, and her guide dog, Gaston, cross the intersection of Wood Street and Roosevelt Avenue with Sandy Murillo, center, and Geovanni Bahena, relying on an audible signal for the blind, on April 26, 2023, in Chicago. Faced with a growing backlash, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, that it is pausing plans to change how it asks people about disability in its most comprehensive survey, a move that would have overhauled how disabilities are defined by the nation's largest statistical agency. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

The Census Bureau halts changing how it asks about disabilities following a backlash

Nevada drivers can now add a symbol identifying certain medical conditions on their driver license

Blind Ukrainian veteran begins new chapter

Phil Durst, who has undergone an experimental stem cell procedure with his eyes, sits for a portrait in Homewood, Ala., on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. His left eye bore the brunt of a 2017 work accident, which stole his vision, left him unable to tolerate light and triggered four to five cluster headaches a day. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Stem cells from one eye show promise in healing injuries in the other

ARCHIVO - El tackle ofensivo de los Ravens de Baltimore Michael Oher sentado en el banco durante un juego de la NFL ante los Bills de Buffalo. Domingo 24 de octubre de 2010. (AP Foto/Nick Wass, Archivo)

Agreement central to a public dispute between Michael Oher and the Tuohys is being questioned

Blind veterans beat challenges at Ukraine rehab camp

FILE - Michael Oher, left, Collins Tuohy, second from left, and Leigh Anne Tuohy, whose lives are portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie "The Blind Side," speak with Pastor Kerry Shook, right, March 3, 2010 at Woodlands Church's Fellowship Campus in The Woodlands, TX. Michael Oher, the former NFL tackle known for the movie “The Blind Side,” filed a petition Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in a Tennessee probate court accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago. (AP Photo/The Courier, Eric S. Swist, File)

Devastated Tuohys ready to end conservatorship for Michael Oher, lawyers say

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United is adding Braille signs inside planes to help blind travelers find rows, seats and lavatories

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and to mark Disability Pride Month, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sept. 28, 2022, in Washington. The Biden administration is proposing new regulations that would make state and local government websites more accessible for people with disabilities. That includes services like library websites, parking app and transit schedules, and court records. Wednesday is the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

New Biden rule would make government websites and apps more accessible to people with disabilities

Oleksandr Vinkovskyi, director of a Kyiv manufacturing plant where visually impaired people worked, sits for an interview in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, 2023, about the impacts of Russian attacks on his employees. "A visually impaired person goes to work not only to earn money, but also to communicate, interact, and be part of society in some way," said Vinkovskyi. "And I don't know how to estimate this loss." (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

Visually impaired people in Ukraine struggle to cope during Russian missile attacks

Kyiv hit in ‘largest drone attack’ since war began

FILE - This scanning electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. On Friday, May 19, 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported another death and several more cases of vision loss from illnesses linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP, File)

4th death, more vision loss cases linked to tainted eyedrops

Maureen Reid, left, and her guide dog, Gaston, cross the intersection of Wood Street and Roosevelt Avenue with Sandy Murillo, center, and Geovanni Bahena, relying on an audible signal for the blind, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Chicago. A federal court ruling slamming street crossing signals in Chicago as dangerous for blind and low-vision residents are giving momentum to advocates who say the community has long been left out of the push for safer streets. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Listen both ways: Blind walkers winning safer road crossings

Ruth’s Hospitality, Kraft Heinz rise; Estee Lauder, AMD fall

FILE - Maryland Gov. Wes Moore talks to reporters during a media availability, April 27, 2023, in Annapolis, Md. Moore's administration announced Monday, May 1, that he has formally created a blind trust for his assets, which include nearly $1.2 million in shares of stock in a cannabis company — or about 46% of his assets outlined in the trust. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)

About 46% of Gov. Wes Moore’s blind trust in cannabis stock

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