Blind Sports

Athletic activities designed for or adapted to enable participation by people who are blind or have low vision. These sports rely on non-visual cues, particularly sound, to make gameplay accessible — for example, blind hockey uses a puck with ball bearings inside to produce noise, and beepball uses bases that emit sound. Blind sports face unique challenges including fragile sound-based adaptive equipment, the difficulty of conveying game strategy without visual aids, and the need for accessible training tools that don't rely on visual demonstration. Indoor venues present additional challenges with echo and reverberation affecting the usefulness of audio cues.