The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new technical assistance document (“TAD”), “Visual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” addressing how the ...

Like the Social Security Administration (SSA), many government agencies have their own definitions of visual impairment and acceptable methods for assessing visual field loss. Assessments using these ...

A senior civil servant with a visual impairment has won €30,000 for disability discrimination after it took his department's ...

Not everyone who wears ordinary glasses or contact lenses is an individual with a disability under the ADA. An individual who uses ordinary eyeglasses or contact lenses that are intended to fully ...

A study published in JAMA Ophthalmology has found that increasing home hazards, such as absence of grab bars, tripping ...

A committee-supported project or activity that has been completed and for which output dissemination has begun. Its committee has been disbanded and closeout procedures are underway. The task order ...

Hybrid work factors prominently in many organization’s office reopening plans, but the format still raises questions about compliance with federal civil rights regulations. That is particularly so for ...

Now I am suddenly back in the world of visual impairment, and the outlook is none too rosy. For one thing, I have come to realize that I am a guinea pig of sorts. My condition is so rare that there is ...

Blindness is a spectrum and can affect people in a variety of ways. A visual disability cannot be corrected with contacts, glasses or surgery. For me, my visual disability is caused by genetics, which ...

With over 15% of the world's population living with some form of disability, the portrayal of people with disabilities in the media and marketing has been limiting, stereotypical and an afterthought. ...