Instagram Adds New Features for Users With Visual Impairment
For people with visual impairment, Instagram just got a bit easier to use. The photo-heavy social media app announced…
Staircases in Space: Why Are Places in Science Fiction Not Wheelchair-Accessible?
Space, as we all know, is the final frontier. It’s the star-spangled playground in which our imaginations run amok, and…
This Clever Wheelchair Redesign Lets Riders Steer By Simply Leaning to the Side
The convenience of never having to recharge a manually-powered wheelchair is often outweighed by the fact that riders…
Pornhub Adds Closed Captions For the Hearing Impaired and Stenographer Fetishists
Pornhub, the internet’s favorite smut factory, announced Wednesday that it is introducing a new feature to its massive…
Microsoft's Controller for Gamers With Limited Mobility Comes with 19 3.5mm Jacks
Aside from whatever motion-control tech Nintendo has tried to push, game controllers haven’t actually changed much over…
Google Is Adding Wheelchair-Accessible Routes to Maps
Wheelchair ramps are the kind of thing most people don’t care about until they actually need them. But for anyone who…
Lawsuit: Over 99 Percent of Uber’s NYC Cars Inaccessible to People With Disabilities
Getting rid of CEO Travis Kalanick has apparently not magically resolved all of ride-hailing giant Uber’s many, many…
Disabled Fans and Creators Are Kept Out of Too Many Conventions. Now They're Not Alone.
Science fiction and fantasy conventions exist in the venn diagram between professional networking events, marketing…
A Simple Map Shows Just How Shitty the NYC Subway System Is For People Using Wheelchairs
It’s hard enough for most of us to get to work on time using the subway—but imagine if you only had access to 25…
Make It Easier to Read Text on Your Phone
The software running on the smartphone in your pocket has a bunch of options to help improve readability, and whether…
Intel's Trying To Help Stephen Hawking Get His Speech Back Up to Speed
Stephen Hawking is a survivor. He's been valiantly holding his own against ALS disease for 50 years now, but it's…
How Kinect Got an Autistic Kid Gaming
GamingNexus editor John Yan has a four-year-old son with a mild form of autism. The little guy's tried to play 360 and…
How the iPhone Helped a Blind Person See Color
"I have seen a lot of technology for the blind, and I can safely say that the iPhone represents the most revolutionary…
Giz Explains: How Blind People See the Internet
Your eyes are absorbing this webpage. They're passing over this, this, then this word, right now. That's how reading…
Father Invents System to Help Autistic Son Communicate
As a result of severe autism and learning disabilities, eleven-year-old Callum Lodge is unable to talk. In order to…
Smartphones Turn Into Assistants For The Blind
We've seen software and applications designed to assist visually impaired individuals in the past, but nothing's been…
A Wheelchair Controlled By Man's Mighty Will
The chair displays a realtime 3D HUD while the user concentrates on basic functions, such as rotating the chair left or…
Google Makes It Easy for Blind to Dial on Touchscreens
Instead of making the user find the right place to press their finger, the engineers made the software find the user's…
InVision Case Makes the iPhone Blind-Friendly, Defiantly Screenless
The screen-based controls and rich visuals that make a device like the iPhone an attractive option for deaf users…
Seeing Machine Sheds a Little Light
Star Trek's Geordi still has the advantage over this "seeing machine" designed by a legally-blind poet at the…