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Low Vision Assistive Technology For Discussion Board Posts

Low Vision Assistive Technology For Discussion Board Posts

Discussion board posts are a key part of college experiences, especially in online classes and in graduate school programs. I love discussion boards because I often learn so much from students and instructors alike about different topics, problem solving ideas, and areas of interest, but…

How To Create A Custom Dorm Skill With Amazon Alexa

How To Create A Custom Dorm Skill With Amazon Alexa

When I first moved into my new dorm in undergrad, I felt super overwhelmed as I tried to keep track of a ton of information while living on my own. By the time I would get back from classes, my visual fatigue and cognitive fatigue…

Twelve Blindness Cane Storage Solutions

Twelve Blindness Cane Storage Solutions

When I was in college, I found out that one of my friends had recently started using a white cane/blindness cane when I tripped over it while walking in the dining hall. Another time I helped a different friend look for their cane after they…

Tuva Tools and Low Vision Accessibility

Tuva Tools and Low Vision Accessibility

When I first started using graphs and charts in math classes, I decided that I hated them. As a student with low vision, I often encountered charts that featured low resolution images, black and white or grayscale color schemes, blurry text, or hard-to-read keys that…

Adapting Accessible Z-Tables: Math Problems and Low Vision

Adapting Accessible Z-Tables: Math Problems and Low Vision

Statistics assignments that require the use of a z-table can be challenging for students with low vision who often receive copies of z-tables that are not optimized with visual impairment access in mind. Honestly, I had so much trouble finding accessible z-tables for visual impairment…

How I Access PowerPoints with Microsoft Sway

How I Access PowerPoints with Microsoft Sway

As a student with low vision, I sometimes have trouble reading the PowerPoint slides that my instructors post on the course website or share with me so I can follow along with class. Things like small font sizes and multi-column layouts are great for presenting…

Configuring Padlet For Low Vision Accessibility

Configuring Padlet For Low Vision Accessibility

My first introduction to Padlet accessibility features was when I was in high school and realized I couldn’t see any of the text or images that my instructor had just shared for a virtual class, and they told me I had to figure out how…

Ten Staff Members To Meet Before Starting College

Ten Staff Members To Meet Before Starting College

Ten staff members you should meet before or at the beginning of college

How I Use Blackboard With Low Vision

How I Use Blackboard With Low Vision

I write about a lot of different websites and apps I use for in-person and virtual learning, but there isn’t a single website for college that I spend more time on than the Blackboard Learn LMS portal, which hosts websites for all of my classes…

How To Create Dorm Door Signs and Decorations For Low Vision

How To Create Dorm Door Signs and Decorations For Low Vision

When I lived in college dorm/on-campus housing, the resident advisors for my floor would create dorm door signs and dorm door decorations for students that included their name and a fun design. There are a lot of creative dorm door decorations, and I received an…

How To Come Up With Sample Accommodations

How To Come Up With Sample Accommodations

When preparing for an IEP meeting, a 504 Plan meeting, or a Disability Services meeting, parents and students will often be asked to come up with sample accommodations that can be used to provide services for students in the classroom. However, it can be very…

Why You Should Register With Disability Services in College

Why You Should Register With Disability Services in College

A prospective student recently asked me if they really needed to get a Disability Services file for college, because they didn’t want to go through the intake process or go to a bunch of meetings when they would primarily be taking online classes and could…