https://www.abc15.com/news/state/how-the-blind-and-visually-impaired-community-experience-struggles-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every American, but the way local governments have responded has adversely impacted blind and visually impaired people. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays Watch Now

https://www.yahoo.com/news/blind-visually-impaired-community-experience-012203484.html
January 31, 2021. How the blind and visually impaired community experience struggles amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every American, but the way local governments

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9650307/
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unexpected and unavoidable changes in daily life worldwide. Governments and communities found ways to mitigate the impact of these changes, but many solutions were inaccessible to people with visual impairments. This work aimed to investigate how blind individuals subjectively experienced the restrictions and

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009006/
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to catastrophic repercussions in many aspects of life. The virus has disproportionately affected certain demographics including the visual impairment (VI) community. For those with significant vision loss, the sense of touch and haptics are of great importance.

https://theconversation.com/the-pandemic-is-undermining-visually-impaired-peoples-independence-heres-how-to-fix-this-142209
The pandemic is affecting everyone, but it has been particularly tough for visually impaired people. A report by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) notes that two-thirds of

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.897098/full
1 Unit for Visually Impaired People, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy; 2 DIBRIS, Università degli studi di Genova, Genova, Italy; 3 PREPOS Studio Associato, Lucca, Italy; The COVID-19 pandemic caused unexpected and unavoidable changes in daily life worldwide. Governments and communities found ways to mitigate the impact of these changes, but many solutions were inaccessible to

https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2021/w4aSiu/siu2021dataCovid-2.pdf
bility gap for the Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) community and exposed new inequities. We discuss fndings from a survey (n=127) on data accessibility followed by a contextual inquiry (n=12) of BVI people conducted between June and September 2020. 94% of survey respondents had concerns about accessing accurate COVID-19 data in a timely manner.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0145482X211014334
In the COVID-19 pandemic, people with visual impairments (i.e., people who are blind or have low vision) have several additional complications: (1) they may be more vulnerable to be infected by the disease, (2) they have more difficulties implementing the preventive strategies against COVID-19 and also need to implement additional strategies, and (3) they may have more mental health problems

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430263.3452432
During the COVID-19 pandemic, dissemination of data on the web has been vital in shaping the public's response. We postulated the increased prominence of data might have exacerbated the accessibility gap for the Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) community and exposed new inequities.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-66823-5_25
The World Health Organization estimates that there are about 39 million blind and 246 million visually-impaired individuals in the world [5, 66].Numerous reports [28, 36, 38, 63], have stated that even before the start of the current pandemic, low vision already posed significant challenges to the visually impaired individuals in conducting their day-to-day activities.

https://www.afb.org/research-and-initiatives/covid-19-research
The Journey Forward: Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Though COVID-19 restrictions have eased and many Americans are beginning to venture out to shop, socialize, and work, we know that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on all our lives. AFB began the Journey Forward study in summer 2021 with a survey conducted with U.S. adults

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7987293/
People with visual impairment report barriers to mobility to take public transportation, which can affect maintenance of their autonomy and independence. Using technological tools is identified as facilitators for the continuity of educational and work activities; however, some did not have computer literacy or the basic inputs for connectivity.

https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-52118942
Some feel the complications of coronavirus are the same for them as for sighted people. And Sajid thinks visually impaired people's strategies and resilience may sometimes put them at an advantage

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disability-and-covid-19-global-impacts/covid-19-and-vision-impairment-britain-narrative-absence
The blind community has inverted the narrative of absence by making its presence felt. The unquestioned primary of 'sightedness' However, we cannot escape the fact that Covid-19 has served to solidify the position of the blind and visually impaired community as straddling the insider/outsider divide of British Society .

https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/cbvi/publications/srcar/SRC%20Annual%20Report%202020.pdf
Commission of the Blind and Visually Impaired for 2020. 2020 has been a year like no other, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been acutely felt by New Jersey's blind, deaf-blind, and visually impaired population. As we all struggled to cope with and adapt to living through a pandemic, you will find in this report

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0264619621990695
This research intended to map difficulties and challenges individuals, who live in Hungary and are registered blind or visually impaired, experienced during the COVID-19 lockdown, in the domains of shopping for food and supplies, personal assistance needs, remote study and work, and leisure habits.

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10295425
Cardel et al. (2020) conducted a survey to examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on research participants' desire to participate in research. Over 40% of survey respondents were a 'little/moderately' hesitant to attend in-person study visits and 25.2% were 'quite a bit/extremely' hesitant to do so.

https://www.tn.gov/humanservices/disability-services.html
Blind & Visually Impaired Services is a program of the Division of Rehabilitation Services that offers services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. ... (DRS) participates in numerous councils, advisory boards and committees to build better partnerships in the community and improve the services it provides.

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How the blind and visually impaired community experience struggles amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ABC15. Follow. 2 years ago. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every American, but the way local governments have responded has adversely impacted blind and visually impaired people.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-90179-0_7
In a follow-up answer, 11 (21.1%) blind and 1 (5.3%) low vision participants reported accessibility problems with charts, forms, graphs, and tables. Four (7.7%) blind participants also stressed problems accessing maps for locating vaccine centers. Ten (14.5%) respondents reported no access to telemedicine during the pandemic.

http://core19.utk.edu/about-the-experts
About the Experts. The Coronavirus-19 Outbreak Response Experts (CORE-19) team at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a network of researchers in public health, economics, public policy, agriculture, veterinary medicine, and other disciplines who seek to provide timely and evidence-based information for policymakers, industry, and the public on pressing questions regarding the global

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-25102-3_16?pdf=chapter%20toc
a case study of a blind student who shared his daily experience with online learning, highlighting both the encountered struggles and the type of assistance received dur - ing the pandemic. The discussion on the future use of emerging technologies for the BVI concludes our chapter. Process. The Blind and Visually Impaired and Online Learning

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150158/
In the COVID-19 pandemic, people with visual impairments (i.e., people who are blind or have low vision) have several additional complications: (1) they may be more vulnerable to be infected by the disease, (2) they have more difficulties implementing the preventive strategies against COVID-19 and also need to implement additional strategies