1.8 million people in the UK are partially sighted. With this in mind, technology magazine PCPro has joined forces with theRoyal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to encourage companies to make their websites more accessible to blind and partially sighted people. This involves getting their websites and apps to a minimum standard so that partially sighted users still have the opportunity to access their goods and services.Websites need to be accessible for partially sighted peopleRobin S… Continue reading →

A remarkable new trial into using stem cells in an attempt to cure blindness has taken place in the UK.Two people have had stem cells transplanted into their eyes as part of a clinical trial to restore their sight. Both patients have corneal blindness and up to this point, the only possible cure is a transplant of cornea tissue from an organ donor.The donor stem cells were grown by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service who ran the trial along with NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow an… Continue reading →

In 1994, 21-year-old Gula Namiq Hassan was living in a Sulaymaniyah, north of Bagdad and in the wrong place at the wrong time when shrapnel from a nearby car bomb blast pierced her eyes, blinding her, presumably thought at the time, forever. Her right eye had to be removed, and her left eye was damaged from the cornea to the retina.Skip forward to 2011, and an Iraqi ophthalmologist told Gula and her family that the pioneering eye surgeon Dr. Amar Agarwal, father of the glued intraocular lens (IO… Continue reading →

Colour blindness is a recessive genetic condition carried through on the X chromosome, which leaves a person unable to see the normal spectrum of colours. It affects men more commonly as they only have one X chromosome. Women need to inherit the gene from both parents to be affected; however, women can often be 'silent' carriers.Colour blindness does not affect the vision, it only changes the way a person sees colour. There three types of inherited of colour blindness:

• Monochromacy - this… Continue reading →