University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: UWM professors are reimagining digital libraries for the visually impaired. “[Iris] Xie, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, is creating research-driven design guidelines for digital libraries to better serve the visually impaired. The effort, in collaboration with co-principal investigator Wonchan Choi, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/09/university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee-uwm-professors-are-reimagining-digital-libraries-for-the-visually-impaired-2/

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無視障礙 早產盲生多益800分 - 生活 - 自由時報電子報
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/paper/352348

無視障礙 早產盲生多益800分

「沒有人可以一蹴即成,腳踏實地的進步才是真的!」靜宜大學的視障學生蔡宗豪因早產而全盲,連光感都沒有的他卻在今年首度挑戰多益測驗,拿下800分的好成績,是近年來30多名視障學生中的最好成績,也達外商公司外派主管的語言水準。多益滿分是900分,負責多益測驗的ETS台灣區代表處指出,去

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Georgia Museum of Art: UGA Students Create Tactile Replica for Museum Visitors with Low Vision. “Most museum visitors know the rule ‘look, but don’t touch,’ but where does that leave people who are blind or have low vision? As museums work toward increasing accessibility, many are exploring the incorporation of tactile images, or three-dimensional objects designed to be interpreted through […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/07/georgia-museum-of-art-uga-students-create-tactile-replica-for-museum-visitors-with-low-vision/
Georgia Museum of Art: UGA Students Create Tactile Replica for Museum Visitors with Low Vision

Georgia Museum of Art: UGA Students Create Tactile Replica for Museum Visitors with Low Vision. “Most museum visitors know the rule ‘look, but don’t touch,’ but where does that le…

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How a Quebec theatre is opening its doors for audiences with visual and hearing impairments
Dominique Boucher, who has lived with a visual impairment for the past 40 years, has stayed away from the theatre. But as more theatres in Quebec experiment with performances that offer audio descriptions, sign-language interpretation and other measures to accommodate more patrons, Boucher is stepping back into the...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-theatre-accessibility-9.7217935?cmp=rss

Veronica With Four Eyes: My Experience Using Kagi Search With Low Vision. “I hadn’t realized how much the visual clutter from search engine pages was weighing on me until it was eliminated, and I have been mentioning Kagi to almost everyone I know since then. Here is an overview of my experience using Kagi Search with low vision, including tips for using Kagi search tools and information […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/22/veronica-with-four-eyes-my-experience-using-kagi-search-with-low-vision/
Veronica With Four Eyes: My Experience Using Kagi Search With Low Vision

Veronica With Four Eyes: My Experience Using Kagi Search With Low Vision. “I hadn’t realized how much the visual clutter from search engine pages was weighing on me until it was eliminated, a…

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Leamington Observer: British Motor Museum image archive to become more accessible. “The project, running from spring 2026 to early 2027, will provide unprecedented access for visually impaired visitors to a historically significant collection of 20th century photographic negatives. This digital accessibility project will produce digital twins of a currently inaccessible collection using […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/leamington-observer-british-motor-museum-image-archive-to-become-more-accessible/

Associated Press: AI smart glasses will help visually impaired runners take on the London Marathon. “Running past Buckingham Palace during training, Tilly Dowler is closing in on a goal she once thought out of reach. Dowler, who has Stargardt disease and says she has about 10% useful vision, only began running last year, starting with a couch to 5K program before building up to marathon […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/associated-press-ai-smart-glasses-will-help-visually-impaired-runners-take-on-the-london-marathon/
Associated Press: AI smart glasses will help visually impaired runners take on the London Marathon

Associated Press: AI smart glasses will help visually impaired runners take on the London Marathon. “Running past Buckingham Palace during training, Tilly Dowler is closing in on a goal she o…

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University of Washington: Tiny cameras in earbuds let users talk with AI about what they see. “The prototype system called VueBuds takes low-resolution, black-and-white images, which it transmits over Bluetooth to a phone or other nearby device. A small artificial intelligence model on the device then answers questions about the images within around a second. For privacy, all of the processing […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/22/university-of-washington-tiny-cameras-in-earbuds-let-users-talk-with-ai-about-what-they-see/
University of Washington: Tiny cameras in earbuds let users talk with AI about what they see

University of Washington: Tiny cameras in earbuds let users talk with AI about what they see. “The prototype system called VueBuds takes low-resolution, black-and-white images, which it trans…

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Museum Management and Curatorship: Experiencing a historic garden online: impact of an inclusive digital multisensory audio descriptive tour. “An inclusive audio descriptive online tour of the Chelsea Physic Garden was created for people who were blind and partially blind (BPB) and sighted. Sixty-two participants completed an evaluation questionnaire directly after experiencing the online tour, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/31/experiencing-a-historic-garden-online-impact-of-an-inclusive-digital-multisensory-audio-descriptive-tour-museum-management-and-curatorship/

Chat with bank, hopefully sorted, it sucks that no-one thinks about visually impaired people, its also not hard to accommodate us either. Just give us the ability to modify font sizes & styles, scale your apps properly.

Phones now are good but could do better in some aspects, a few apps dont play nice when scaled.

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