SPOKANE, WA -- Police arrested a man last week for stealing a blind woman's cell phone. Malcolm J. Davis, 29, was arrested for 1st degree theft, as well as for a felony warrant from a previous theft.

Like teenagers the world over, Syrian refugee Alaa is constantly tapping away on his cell phone. But rather than chatting with friends or using social media, Alaa – who was born blind – uses the old ...

Despite widespread opposition, the CPB is moving forward on a controversial Blind Bay site for its new facility; a nonprofit is using a mobile food pantry to reach remote parts of the Adirondacks; Rep ...

A blind Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him.

UK company OwnFone has launched what it calls the world’s first phone which has braille on the keys, making the device usable by the blind. Speaking to the BBC, OwnFone’s Tom Sunderland said although ...

This certainly makes plenty of sense: a combination cellphone/PDA for the blind. The ALVA MPO 5500 is a tri-band GSM phone that has a Braille keypad, a digital speech synthesizer, and a “screen” made ...