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Benetech Named to Forbes 2026 Accessibility List for Second Consecutive Year

The nonprofit for accessible education is recognized following a year of building accessible learning infrastructure and advancing responsible AI in education

Access Summit to center on AI and accessibility

The Ability Center, in partnership with Joseph, Judith, and Susan Conda, will host its Access Summit on June 17.

Ford Foundation Promotes Rebecca Cokley to Program Director for U.S. Disability Rights

The Ford Foundation announced the appointment of Rebecca Cokley as the inaugural program director of its U.S. Disability Rights (USDR) program. Cokley, who joined the foundation as...

National Braille Press Selects Winner, Ann Cunningham, for Touch of Genius Awards

National Braille Press announces 2026 winner of the Touch of Genius Prize was awarded to Ann Cunningham for a teaching method and product called Flip-pics. BOSTON, June 26, 2026 /P...

Accessible online forms for education: What the new ADA Title II rule requires

Çağrı Artan was born blind. He’s also a longtime tech enthusiast, a member of the Association of Barrier-Free Access, and former coordinator for the Unit of Students with Disa...

Lighthouse of Broward brings normalcy, sense of community to visually impaired children

Visually impaired children often miss out on games and learning that requires sight, but one organization is working to change that. 7’s Courtney Allen shines...

2Gether-International Named to Forbes Accessibility List for the Second Consecutive Year

Newly expanded list recognizes the top 200 global impact-makers in accessibility-related fields, including 2Gether-International (2GI), a global organization and network unlocking...

'I thought my dreams were over'; Blind adventurer backs education charity

TV presenter and adventurer Amar Latif has revealed the last thing he saw before losing his sight and how a life-changing friendship shaped his outlook, as he supports an appeal fo...

Deafblind Awareness Month celebrates community while raising awareness

June is Deafblind Awareness Month, a time for learning and support. Ryan Riehl is deafblind and loves to paint, he says 'it's important that everybody knows that we're out there.'

Integrating Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) As An Inclusive Practice

Innovative Leader Award - Kimberly Zajac discusses why digital accessibility is important beyond compliance

Student start-up developing assistive technology for the visually impaired named one to watch by NovaUCD

Auralink has today been announced as the overall winner of the 2026 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition, an intensive four-week accelerator programme for emerging student entrep...

Tarlac State University opens doors to first blind students

TARLAC CITY — The Tarlac State University welcomed its first two visually impaired students as it implemented its inclusivity policy on Friday afternoon, July 10. Marvin David Gama...

Apple Foundation Models [SUBSCRIBER]

<p>Apple Foundation Models is a practical guide to building intelligent, on-device AI applications using Apple’s new Foundation Models framework. Designed for Swift developer...

Out of sight, out of work: Creating opportunity for blind and partially sighted people

Billions of pounds are being lost - and hundreds of thousands of people excluded from the economy - because so much of our technology and working lives are not inclusive by design

Youngstown Radio Reading Service Reaches Milestone

LIBERTY, Ohio – Michael Bosela knows firsthand how difficult navigating the world can be with limited vision. As a student at Ohio State University in the early 1970s, he hired peo...

Blind and visually impaired Vermont kids step outside of their comfort zones learning to skateboard

The Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired partnered with Talent Skatepark and Green Mountain Adaptive

Call for Nominations for the 2026 Oticon Focus on People Awards

National Awards Program Honors Hearing Champions Who Are Reshaping the Perception of Hearing Loss

Meta Launches Program to Give Free AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Blind Veterans

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has launched a nationwide program to provide Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses at no cost to every blind veteran in the United States, offering transformative assistiv...

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Keep your ear on the ball: Blind beep baseball team teaches clinic in Louisville

Beep baseball players from Indianapolis recently visited Louisville to demonstrate the adaptive sport for people who are blind or have low vision.

Possibilities

Directors Bill Sarine and Max Lewkowicz , through the American Foundation for the Blind, present documentary Possibilities, starting with the impact of... The post Possibilities fi...

CDF bursaries revive dreams of visually impaired Kwame Nkrumah students

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Disabled World History 2004-2026

The story of Disabled World from its founding in May 2004 to the present — two decades of disability news, research, and resources for the global disability community

JAMB speaks on special cut-off mark for disabled candidates

e age of 16. A commemorative book titled A Peep into the Future of Higher Education in Nigeria was also presented at the event. The book examines the future of tertiary educatio...