Blind

A new app is the first of its kind to guide the blind and visually impaired through Metro stations step-by-step. News4’s Adam Tuss explains how it works.

Blind and visually impaired Americans are finding it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to schedule vaccination appointments because so many are being scheduled online. Currently, about 12 million people above the age of 40 in the United States have vision impairment, including 1 million who are blind, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over 3 million people…

Distance learning makes life challenging for many kids throughout the region, but for several thousand local children the distance causes bigger complications. Scott MacFarlane and the News4 I-Team report their parents are trying to prevent virtual learning from being virtually impossible.

New restrictions at restaurants and grocery stores are placing an increased burden on the blind, according to a review and a series of interviews by the News4 I-Team. People with vision impairments report unique stresses while stopping at supermarkets. The I-Team found inconsistent policies at drive-thru restaurants that must serve the blind. “It’s scary, because I’m a tactile person,”...

Advocacy groups have sued Hulu in an effort to force the subscription streaming service to provide an audio track that helps people who are blind and visually impaired enjoy TV shows and movies. The federal lawsuit filed in Boston on Monday accuses Hulu of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act for failing to make its services accessible to blind customers....

The creators of an upcoming movie about a Boston Marathon bombing survivor are getting pushback after they cast Jake Gyllenhaal to play a double amputee — allegedly without considering actors with disabilities.

Alec Baldwin’s portrayal as a blind man has been equated to wearing “blackface.” The Ruderman Family Foundation, a leading disability organization, condemned the actor’s performance as a blind man in the upcoming film “Blind,” according to the Daily News. “Alec Baldwin in ‘Blind’ is just the latest example of treating disability as a costume,” said Jay Ruderman, the foundation’s...

Alec Baldwin said in an interview with CNN on Monday he would return to “Saturday Night Live” this fall to continue his impersonation of President Donald Trump.

Jimmy and Alec Baldwin take turns trying to stump each other about what items are hidden inside their mystery boxes.

Authorities say a legally blind Tampa man shot an intruder who had broken in through a window in the house.