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The latest news and updates from Be My Eyes in one place.

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December 5, 2020

9 Tips to Becoming a Better Volunteer

Learn some tips directly from our community of over 500,000 blind and visually impaired users on how to be the most effective visual assistant.
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December 3, 2020

Disabled During Lockdown: Some Helpful Things to Consider

Covid-19 regulations and guidelines can be extra complicated for many people with disabilities. On International Day of People with Disabilities, we’re asking our community to think twice before making assumptions
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November 26, 2020

Hands-free, Eyes-free: Be My Eyes’ Recommend Accessories and Wearables, 2020

Our list of recommendations for accessories and wearables that allow for a hands-free Be My Eyes experience.
Man holding a white cane in one hand and a smartphone in the other.
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November 19, 2020

5 Ways to Help Your Company’s Visually Challenged Customers

Customers with vision challenges often require a specialized approach in how companies target customer service.
One side of the image shows a woman pointing her phone camera to a bottle of vitamins. The other side of the image shows a female pharmacist looking at a tablet. Icon in corner stating US only.
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November 9, 2020

Accessible Pharmacy joins Be My Eyes

Two blind-founded companies are teaming up to assist blind and low vision consumers with medication support, COVID testing and more.
The logos of Blindrafelagid and UNSS.
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October 27, 2020

Blind organizations from Iceland and Slovakia are now available on Be My Eyes

In October, we welcomed two new local blind organizations to the Be My Eyes Community; Blindrafelagid from Iceland and UNSS from Slovakia.
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October 8, 2020

How to Make Your Workplace More Inclusive for Visually Impaired Employees

Making sure your workplace is inclusive for employees and possible employees who are blind or have low vision can seem like a daunting task. But it’s a lot more simple than it seems - it’s all about changing the culture and the way you think.
The word "Dyslexia" written in Scrabble tiles.
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October 2, 2020

How Be My Eyes Can Help People with Dyslexia

Be My Eyes is not just for people who are blind or have low vision - people with varying degrees of Dyslexia can also benefit from Be My Eyes to get assistance with deciphering words and sentences as well as spell checks.
A screen on the Spectrum Access app reads “Point your microphone at the movie while we sync.”
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October 1, 2020

Watch TV Together: Spectrum Access App is a Leap Forward for Entertainment Accessibility

The free iOS app allows the user to access audio description, captions, and other accessibility content independently.
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September 28, 2020

Welcoming New Local Blind Organizations to Specialized Help

Blind organizations in Denmark, Nepal, and South Africa join Be My Eyes Specialized Help to offer a new way to connect for their members.
Four guide dogs in Guide Dogs for the Blind harnesses sits and poses for the camera. From left to right: Small Yellow Labrador, Golden Retriever, Yellow Labrador, Black Labrador.
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September 14, 2020

Guide Dogs for the Blind joins Be My Eyes!

Guide Dogs for the Blind has helped to provide independence for countless individuals for nearly 80 years — and we’re happy to now be working together towards that common goal.
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September 4, 2020

How do blind people read? Be My Eyes celebrates ‘Read a Book Day’

Sunday is National Read a Book Day, and September 8th is International Literacy Day — so to celebrate, here are the Top Five reads from the Be My Eyes team along with where to access them.
A Be My Eyes call where the caller is trying to distinguish between three different colored shirts.
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September 4, 2020

Can Be My Eyes Help People who are Color Blind?

Many people think that visual assistance through Be My Eyes is just for people who are blind and visually impaired. But the truth is anyone experiencing difficulties with their sight can reach out for visual assistance.
A woman kneels to clean a stain on a wall with a Mr. Clean product.
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September 1, 2020

Mr. Clean is Here to Help at Home

Get assistance from a Mr. Clean representative on his wide range of cleaning products, to make cleaning up at home just a bit more enjoyable.
Logos of Tide, Ariel, Gain and Downy.
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August 24, 2020

Learn Tricks for a Cleaner Closet with Tide, Gain, Ariel and Downy

Laundry detergent is about to become more accessible than ever before, with four new Procter & Gamble brands coming on board Be My Eyes Specialized Help.
September 4, 2023

Be My Eyes is Updating our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

New Terms Include Be My AI and Accessible CX
September 1, 2023

Be My Eyes and the LEGO Group partner to bring inclusive play experiences to blind and low vision Lego fans

People who are blind or have low vision can now reach out to a LEGO representative to get real time video assistance with LEGO® products and services.
August 7, 2023

Introducing: Be My AI

Be My Eyes’ Virtual Volunteer, powered by GPT-4, gets a new name and will soon be open to beta testing by hundreds of iOS users worldwide
July 23, 2023

Belong pioneers inclusive ways to assist blind and low vision customers with Be My Eyes

People who are blind or have low vision can now reach out to a Belong representative to get real time video assistance with Belong products and services.
May 23, 2023

Be My Eyes celebrates 500,000 people who are blind or have low vision joining the community!

Over 500,000 blind and low-vision people have now signed up to get visual assistance through Be My Eyes.
May 18, 2023

How to get Involved on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Global Accessibility Awareness Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about digital inclusion and accessibility. Here’s how you can get involved.
May 17, 2023

Sky Ireland officially joins Be My Eyes Specialized Help

Our community in Ireland can now reach out to a Sky Ireland representative to get real time video assistance with Sky Ireland products and services.
May 2, 2023

Four Leading Brands and The National Federation of the Blind Join Be My Eyes’ Be My AI Corporate Beta Test

We’re excited to announce that Hilton, Microsoft, P&G, Sony, and The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) have joined our Be My AI beta test.
May 1, 2023

Sony

Sony partners with Be My Eyes and joins Be My AI Beta Test to further improve accessibility of its products.
April 4, 2023

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble joins the Be My AI beta to further improve accessibility of its products.
April 4, 2023

NFB

NFB officially joins Be My Eyes’ Be My AI Beta to further expand its offering for the blind and low-vision community.
April 4, 2023

Hilton

Hilton participates in Be My AI beta test.
April 4, 2023

Microsoft

Microsoft joins Be My Eyes' Be My AI beta to take accessibility of its products to the next level.
March 14, 2023

Introducing Be My AI (formerly Virtual Volunteer) for People who are Blind or Have Low Vision, Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4

We are thrilled to announce Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer™, the first-ever digital visual assistant powered by OpenAI’s new GPT-4 language model.