Analytics company SAS has introduced a free browser extension that converts graphs and charts into sound, allowing users to create digital maps that can be explored using non-visual methods. Using the ...

The chip industry is conservative when it comes to adopting new metrology and inspection. Will it ultimately see NVD inspection as a wunderkind, or an also-ran? Remember when it first became obvious ...

Over the last two years, Bloomberg’s UX team has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University and visually impaired users to prototype next generation accessibility tools. At Bloomberg, there’s a mantra ...

For a long time, semiconductor defect inspection focused on particles, and particle defects remain an important cause of yield loss. But as devices have become more complex, additional kinds of ...

In addition to allowing us to see, the mammalian eye also detects light for a number of "nonvisual" phenomena. A prime example of this is the timing of the sleep/wake cycle, which is synchronized by ...

Visually impaired photographer, Sun Zhiyuan Photo: Courtesy of Sun Zhiyuan Sun Zhiyuan uses photography to express his feelings of encountering obstacles in the outside world as a person with impaired ...