Blindness & Low Vision

Learn how parents with low vision or blindness navigate daily life using adaptive tools, support systems and practical strategies.

Explore how vision loss can lead to loneliness in seniors, and ways they can maintain a sense of community.

Honor Veterans Day by exploring the resources available for visually impaired heroes.

Learn what it means to have low vision and get strategies for navigating daily life.

How to apply for Social Security Disability benefits if you are legally blind or visually impaired and need financial assistance.

Explore the details behind getting a guide dog, from training to finding a forever home.

Anchor Center for Blind Children provides services to young kids with impaired vision. Learn how the center supports children and their families.

Visual impairment is often used to classify many different forms of vision loss. But it usually means vision that can’t be fully corrected with glasses or contacts.

Visually impaired computer users can benefit from specially designed low vision devices and magnifiers.

A new typeface developed by graphic designers and the Braille Institute helps improve legibility of text for low-vision readers.

Temporary blindness and blind spots can be caused by both mild and severe underlying problems. Learn more about these unexpected vision problems.

Learn what the term legal blindness means, what can cause it and what resources are available for people who are legally blind.

Magnifying glasses are indispensable whether used for improving impaired vision, for reading small print as we age, for detail-oriented hobbies or to aid professional clinicians.

Learn the different ways you can support and advocate for a person with visual impairment.

Follow this helpful guide for requesting ADA accommodations in the workplace.

Secure your success in higher education with resources for visually impaired college students.

Learn how to use free features on your computer, laptop or phone to make the internet more accessible with impaired vision.

Guide to low vision aids and ways to use them, including reading devices such as hand-held and video camera magnifiers.

Where to get help if you have a visual impairment that cannot be corrected with glasses, contact lenses or eye surgery.

Honor World Mental Health Day on October 10 by exploring how vision loss can affect mental health.

Low vision is uncorrectable, but there are many ways to adjust a senior’s lifestyle to ease the inconvenience of the visual impairment.

Plan your next trip with this comprehensive guide on travelling with vision impairment.

Yellow bumps on the sidewalk play an important role for those who are visually impaired, legally blind or have low vision.

More than 4 million U.S. adults over 40 are blind, and the most common causes of blindness are aging-related eye conditions such as cataracts and glaucoma.

Explore the technology that is improving the lives of people with visual impairment.

How do people of all ages cope with low vision? These 10 strategies are the most practical and popular ways to deal with low vision.

Celebrate Disability Pride Month by discovering the resources available for blind people.

A list of apps, organizations, schools, scholarships, products and other resources for the legally blind, as well as for their family and friends.