Assistive Devices

Sights for Hope Becomes First Host Site of its Kind for MABLE Maps App

By Sights for Hope Team | October 22, 2026

A Sights for Hope client smiling while testing the MABLE Maps indoor navigation app on a smartphone with assistance from a Lehigh University graduate student. Other clients and students also are testing the technology in the background at Sights for Hope’s Lehigh Valley Services Center.

Sights for Hope’s Lehigh Valley Services Center has become the fifth location overall, and the first social service organization serving people with vision loss, to serve as a host site for MABLE Maps – an innovative accessible navigation application being developed at Lehigh University. Now available for download on iOS devices, MABLE Maps helps people […]

Sights for Hope Connects Clients with Smartphone Tools for Independence

By Sights for Hope Team | March 19, 2025

A woman in a beige coat sits on a bench outdoors, holding a white cane and a smartphone.

While 49% of Sights for Hope’s clients have incomes below or near the federal poverty line, its caseworkers connect them with free smartphones and affordable apps to live more independently. Sights for Hope caseworkers teach clients who have smartphones how to use apps such as Seeing AI, BlindSquare, Be My Eyes, and Cash App. Seeing […]