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, […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]