Ever since losing my eyesight I’ve found the formerly simple task of crossing the road to be not just difficult but also very ...

To appease Beacon Hill residents who say newly installed audible crossing signals for blind pedestrians are keeping them awake at night, the Boston Transportation Department altered the machines by ...

CHICAGO — After a retinal disease left him legally blind, architect John Gleichman was struck by a taxicab while walking home near Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo — at the same intersection where a ...

Blind residents know from their mobility training to wait to hear the sounds of parallel traffic before crossing a street. That's often difficult in noisy downtowns like Chicago's with its overhead L ...