Veronica With Four Eyes
I’m often one of the first people that people at my school meet that has low vision or that lives with a chronic illness. While there are several other students that have vision loss or that live with other invisible disabilities, I have chosen to…
When my mom’s Cox email address was transitioned to Yahoo as part of a planned migration transferring Cox email addresses to the Yahoo Mail program, she couldn’t access her email for several days from Microsoft Outlook or from the Apple Mail app, and asked me…
The meaning of blindness cane colors and what the color of a blindness cane can tell you about someone’s sight loss.
My favorite tool for O&M and independent navigation as a person with low vision isn’t my blindness cane— it’s my Android smartphone. While I love my blindness cane and all of the ways that it helps me to navigate my community on my own or…
I started using the Stylebook app during my freshman year of college to keep my clothes organized and put together outfits inspired by Pinterest without having to take several items out of my tiny dorm closet or creating a mess in my dorm room. While…
Tips and strategies I have used when going to the movies and visiting movie theaters with low vision and light sensitivity (photophobia and/or photosensitivity)
It’s National Banana Bread Day (February 23rd), and what better way to celebrate than baking with assistive technology for low vision? While I have had a strong love for assistive technology for many years now, my love for banana bread is much more recent. I…
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…
A few years ago, my friends and I wanted to share our favorite recipes in a digital one-page document, and I outlined this process in a post on how to create a cookbook in Microsoft Sway. When I went back to update this post, I…
Living with low vision, I often use smart cameras and visual assistance tools to provide additional context or clarification about something I am looking at, especially if it is something ambiguous or hard to see. I started using the Microsoft Seeing AI app with low…
Since I was in a tech-related major during undergrad, I became the default IT specialist and device troubleshooter for friends, family members, people who lived in my dorm building, and other students who had trouble using their computer or other mobile devices. Practical information technology…
My experiences with my state Protection and Advocacy organization, and why every student with a disability should know about them