The blind and visually impaired face tremendous challenges in learning to live without sight. Current and emerging technologies are knocking down barriers and providing blind men and women the opportunity to succeed in careers, education and hobbies that most sighted people believe requires vision. But despite the advances, an alarming number of visually-impaired people still experience difficulty in finding work and feeling empowered in a sighted world.
Click HERE to visit our multimedia project about blindness. This project was done together with Nick Burns for an advanced multimedia class at the Journalism School at Berkeley.