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Tess Avery is former homicide detective who, in the middle of a case, suddenly starts losing her vision. Within days she is forced to leave her job after being diagnosed as clinically blind, due to the fast-onset genetic condition Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LOHN). Through the help of her visual guide Sunny, who works for a visual ...
Braille watch is used by touching the dial and noticing the embossments. Both analog and digital versions are available. The analog versions have a protective glass or crystal cover that is flipped open when time needs to be read and the clock-hands are constructed to not be susceptible to movement at the mere touch of the finger that a blind person uses to observe their positions.
Womyn's Braille Press (WBP) was an American feminist organization run by blind women from 1980 to 1996. Their primary goal was to make feminist and lesbian literature accessible for women who are blind or print disabled. They produced tapes, braille prints, and even circulated a newsletter for twelve years.
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Nellie Zimmerman, the deaf and blind woman who was discovered tucked away and forgotten for nearly two decades in the psychiatric ward at Massillon State Hospital in the middle of the 1970s, died ...
In recent years, blind athletes have run astonishingly fast marathons, scaled the towering sheer rock face of Yosemite’s El Capitan and climbed the “Seven Summits,” the highest peaks on each ...
The Miracle Worker is a 1962 American biographical film about Anne Sullivan, blind tutor to Helen Keller, directed by Arthur Penn.The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his 1959 play of the same title, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90.
In 2019, she became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter. [4] In 2021, she was named as a brand ambassador for Pantene. [5] In September 2022, she campaigned for accessibility in the entertainment industry, speaking out on the lack of audio description for television shows, films, and theatres, as well as inaccessible website design. [6]