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Blind has carved out a unique niche in the social-networking world. It’s an app of verified, pseudonymous employees talking to each other about what’s going on at their employers, trading notes on

“I just want to be proud of the company that I work for,” Maren Costa told me recently. Costa is a Principal UX Design Lead at Amazon, for which she has worked since 2002. I was referred to her be

There is a secret behind every open office in Silicon Valley -- and it isn’t the drain on productivity. Tech companies have been the vanguards for pushing corporate culture forward toward “radi

It can be a pain for the visually impaired to keep up with your favorite publications the way sighted app users do. BrailleVoice is a project that puts the news in a touch-tone phone interface, readin

Microsoft today launched Soundscape, a new iOS app that aims to give people who are blind or visually impaired a greater awareness of their surrounding by using 3D cues. It’s worth stressing tha

Human resources has to be one of the greatest bait-and-switch professions one can join today. HR departments position themselves with a forward-facing fluffy image, whether improving the productivity

Learning braille is a skill that, like most, is best learned at an early age by those who need it. But toddlers with vision impairment often have few or no options to do so, leaving them behind their

Technology can be central to the lives of the 285 million people in the world who are blind or visually impaired, as long as they know how to use it. That’s where Erin Lauridsen, access technolo

For such a simple tool, the white cane has been incredibly enduring. With all of the technological advances that have been made over the past century, we haven’t come up with much better than a stic

Uber employees have flocked to an anonymous workplace app called Blind as a sort of catharsis since ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti posted about being propositioned and discriminated against whi

Making art more accessible to blind and visually impaired people is founder Marc Dillon's new mission. After almost a quarter century working in the mobile industry -- latterly at alternative mobile O

Tired of being monitored by your company while wanting to dish with colleagues about said company? Or maybe you’re curious about what people with similar work experience are making at other

It's 3.30am in the featureless Singularity University meeting room I'm peering into via Skype and I've just asked Marita Cheng to take a photo of the buttons on her co-founder, Alberto Rizzoli's, shir

<a target="_blank" href="http://fleksy.com/">Fleksy</a> is a new keyboard replacement app for iOS, originally designed for use by the blind or partially sighted, which was created by co-founders <a ta