The iPhone has been a game changer for visually impaired individuals. It’s the one piece of technology that I would deem essential for a blind person to be able tointeract with the digital world. Using apps like Seeing AI, Be My Eyes, BARD Mobile for downloading audiobooks, GPS apps that help us navigate, open so many doors that head up to the introduction of this technology been closed to us. Since you are an art teacher, you may want to use the iPhone in conjunction with color identification apps, to give your students a better sense of color. You could also use the Camera app, to introduce some of your students to photography. For example, the iPhone will tell you if a persons face is in the picture. That’s just off the top of my head, I’m sure there’s many more apps out there that you could use to broaden their horizons

Hi. I can't help with the Visually impaired side of things as I am blind but for those of us who are blind, there's tuns of apps out there now that can do nearly anything you could want.

Okay, we're not driving cars, yet! But we will be in the future. Well, not exactly driving them but we'd be able to buy our own car and have it drive us.

There's www.applevis.com if you want to read about apple bassed apps for the IPhone

As people have said on here, there's Seeing AI for short text, money, face recognition, and bar codes. There's TapTapSee, it allows you to take pictures of things and the app will tell you what they are. (I believe it's partly AI bassed and the other half is human bassed. I think the volunteers get payed about 20 sense per picture.) There's Navigation apps like blindsquare and SoundScape.

I used to be an Assistive Technology instructor for the visually impaired here in AZ. There are a lot of wonderful items out there to help but too many to list. The link below is to the exhibitor list at CSUN Assistive Technology Conference 2018. Those vendors make some marvelous products, attending the conference I have found is the best way to get to know those items intimately to be able to provide the best recommendation to a person in need.

https://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/2018/rebooking/index.php/public/exhibitors/

As an art teacher I would recommend the work of Anne Cunningham. She is based in Colorado, iirc, and her work in tactile art had inspired me to create a tactile art show that was completely inclusive between the blind and sighted alike. The most amazing experience of this art show was how much sighted people loved it.

Check out Microsoft’s new free app Soundscape. It describes what is in the area and how far away. Also Netflix and Amazon include audio descriptions on all original programs. Pretty cool stuff.