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, […]

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.

#VisualImpairment #Accommodations #VisuallyImpaired

Touch, sound and style: how London fashion week is opening up to visually impaired guests – photo essay.

From live audio descriptions to fabric swatch booklets, designers are rethinking the catwalk experience for blind and low-vision clothes-lovers.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260301-touch-sound-and-style-how-london-fashion-week-is-opening-up-to-visually-impaired-guests-photo-essay?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Fashion #LondonFashionWeek #Disability #Blindness #VisualImpairment #Design

💬 The white cane represents more than mobility, it represents independence.

White Cane Week is a reminder to respect personal space, remove barriers, and design environments that support safe movement for people who are blind or have low vision.

🦯Awareness helps create inclusion in everyday spaces.

#WhiteCaneWeek #AccessibilityMatters #DisabilityAwareness #InclusiveDesign #DigitalInclusion #VisualImpairment #MobilityIndependence #A11y

64-year-old woman has been going blind for nearly 50 years. AI glasses just helped her 'see' again.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/ai-glasses-help-blind-woman-see