Meet the UW-Madison lab developing technology for the blind and visually impaired

MadAbility, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Accessibility Lab, is working to develop technologies that allow blind and low-vision individuals equal access to information and to the world.

In an era of visual information, like TikTok videos, YouTube and virtual reality headsets, MadAbility aims to create high-tech solutions for the blind and visually impaired.

Principal Investigator Yuhang Zhao told The Daily Cardinal that modern society is built on — and many of our technologies are centered around — visual information. Exhibit A: smartphones…

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