Akanksha Jain would like to make a zoo in Ahmedabad, India accessible to visually impaired visitors. One cool feature that she's designed is a handrail with Braille descriptions of animals and their environments, as well...

(Video Link) A school in São Paulo, Brazil trains people who are visually impaired -- many completely blind since birth -- to be graceful and coordinated ballet dancers. Fernanda Bianchini opened her school in 1995 a...

Robert Ainsley-Raffel of Hexham, UK, has been blind since birth. But he's determined to achieve the goals that he's set for his life, including becoming a qualified plumber and a certified diver: Robert passed his div...

In 1688, Irish scientist William Molyneux asked philosopher John Locke "if a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he similarly disting...

Terry Garrett has been blind since the age of 10, but he can play certain video games exceptionally well by using in-game sounds to figure out his character's environment. Garrett is especially skilled at the game Oddwo...

Graham Waspe had been aided by his guide dog Edward for six years. When Edward himself began to lose his sight, Mr. Waspe acquired a new guide dog, Opal, who helps not only him, but Edward as well: Mr Waspe's new dog...

(Video Link) Peter Eckert lost his sight as a...  ...ove short film about his work, Eckert says: My blindness -- while it might be a curiosity and it's kind of...

Researchers led by Eberhart Zrenner of the Univers...  ...partial sight to people suffering from a form of blindness called retinitis pigmentosa: One subject, 46-y...

A San Francisco architect who developed sudden...  ...A San Francisco architect who developed sudden blindness has carved out a successful career as a consultan...

Art student Danielle Pecora from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn designed this ball to help children learn how to read Braille: Looking a bit like a stiff Koosh ball, it has 26 magnetic pegs, each depicting a letter o...