SAVVY SENIOR ; Resources to Help Seniors with Impaired VisionDear Savvy Senior: What resources can you recommend to helpseniors with incurable vision...Miller, Jim
After using my SmartVision 3 for over a week, I have to say that I’m impressed with its accessibility features. Although I do not have impaired vision, I think that its multipronged approach to using the device would make it easy for anyone to successfully manipulate. Adding to the acces...
“This technology gives the visually impaired hope, allowing them to work as professionals, or just to function in everyday life”, she adds. The M-Powered platform, active in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, is another instance of technology being leveraged to empower the disabled an...
Consequently there is no difference between his driving this Cybertruck and any other car. If the car did have driver assistance, though, his vision would still be impaired — and the car could hand back control at any moment. The footage was shared in a tweet by Secretary P...
During the past years, the development of assistive technologies for visually impaired (VI)/blind people has helped address various challenges in their lives by providing services such as obstacle detection, indoor/outdoor navigation, scene description, text reading, facial recognition and so on. This...
By My Eyes is an iOS app that gives those with impaired vision a chance to "see" what is front of them. With the app, the vision impaired person sends a live video of an object that he wants identified. Or, the live video can contain pages or other text
(i.e., seniors living in the community) will decrease to less than 3 to 1. With this growing burden, healthcare systems are under pressure and the situation of care homes is depressing as they have inadequate facilities [14,38]. However, smart senior homes can be a potential solution ...
There is widespread agreement that vision standards for driver licensure need to be evidence-based so as not to unfairly prohibit individuals from driving who have the visual skills necessary to do so, in spite of being visually impaired. Even though the field does not yet have the evidence ...
The study was performed among a population of children aged 7–17 years with impaired vision from any cause who were registered at a low vision service for a functional vision assessment or various other rehabilitation or early interventions. Methods The cross-cultural validation of the FVQ_CYP ...
How to help someone who is visually impaired Learn the different ways you can support and advocate for a person with visual impairment. How to prevent eye injuries Experts say more than 90% of eye injuries can be prevented by wearing safety glasses and taking other precautions. How to put in...