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People who deviate physically or psychologically from the average are a popular subject of scientific research. Oliver Sacks and V. S. Ramachandran have published numerous case histories on this basis. The reason for this is that the deviation allows you to study how it actually works. In “The Blind Woman Who Can See,” Ramachandran introduces a woman who is actually blind, but can purposefully reach for a pen that is held out to her. This lady's visual center is functioning and she is able to respond to instinctive stimuli. But she cannot consciously process visual information.

Visual Literacy is the understanding of Information Graphics.

Blind persons are using computers and smartphones on a daily basis? You want to know how that works? Then listen to this episode.

We not often talk about the relationship between blind and sighted persons. Let's cahnge hat in this episode.

Rough contact with walls, cars or tables is part of everyday life for blind people. Running through the city is like Tetris and Pakman rolled into one. For the sighted person, the space consists of free areas that are bordered by objects. For the blind person it consists of objects between which there is free space.

Visual impairments are very often found in the workforce. In this auto-generated episode I show what you can do to prepare the workplace for that group.

Which role Braille can play in an Age where audiobooks and speech outputs are available everywhere. We will disscuss it in this auto-generated episode.

Automatically generated image descriptions have reached a state where they can be better then human made descriptions, especially for complex info graphics. One great thing is the possibility to use the chat for refinement of the description.

In this episode we talk about the usual problems of contrasts in digital accessibility and how to solve them.

In this automatically generated Interview I talk with an User Experience Researcher on working with blind and visually impaired persons.