Veronica With Four Eyes
What if higher education was made more accessible for visually impaired students in Virginia through online resources? Earlier this year, I entered the 10 Ideas policy writing competition sponsored by the Roosevelt Network, the largest student-run think tank in the nation. For the competition, students […]
How to create a disability services file in college and make sure services are set for the first day
Watch a video about how I use assistive technology, produced by Microsoft as part of their Inclusion in Action series.
Every time I turn around, I feel like I am seeing people use emoji, which have become a defining pop culture element of today’s society. People of all ages are using emoji to convey different messages, and as someone with a vision impairment, it can […]
Answering the who, what, when, where, and why about plastic straw bans and how they impact people with disabilities, with a focus on vision impairment and Chiari Malformation
When my dad and I went to Louisville, Kentucky, we decided to go to one of the horse races at Churchill Downs, as I was interested to see how people with vision impairments could go to horse races. After experimenting with assistive technology, I was […]
Ten surprising facts about college campus wifi, from an IT major
When I went to St Louis, I had the opportunity to attend a St Louis Cardinals MLB baseball game on one of the nights while I was there. While the weather was incredibly hot, it was really cool to see all of the different ways […]
My friend and I were talking the other day and they asked me how I had learned to navigate the hallways of my school before I started using a blindness cane- read more about my cane in my post for White Cane Day 2016 here. […]
Use your own technology for captioning and audio description at Broadway plays with GalaPro
I have learned a lot about how to deal with broken glasses over the years, but I always seem to break them in the most unpredictable ways. When I went to visit a petting zoo (which will remained unnamed), I had the opportunity to meet […]
Including campers with vision impairments in summer day camps.
Last winter, I decided to take a CLEP exam, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made in college. I was able to get credit for information I had learned and take classes that were more interesting to me in the next […]
