Harnessing the Power of Information Technologies for the Visually Impaired

Communication is essential to all humans for life, health, relationships, and employment. Our need to access text and other visual inputs makes communication one of our most important visually guided behaviors. The advent of increasing reliance on the personal computer and smart phones and the ubiquitous need for access to the Internet, e-mail, text messaging, and other forms of video communications has made digital information technologies (IT) a major source of our visual communications.