Expanded Core Curriculum

Navigating Project Task List Spreadsheets With Low Vision

Navigating Project Task List Spreadsheets With Low Vision

Simple strategies I use to read project task list spreadsheets in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel with low vision and large print text

Quiet Places At School For Students With Visual Impairments

Quiet Places At School For Students With Visual Impairments

How my support team implemented “quiet place” accommodations so I could manage visual fatigue and sensory overload at school

Free Accessible Periodic Tables For Low Vision

Free Accessible Periodic Tables For Low Vision

Ten options for making the periodic table accessible for students with blindness, low vision, and vision impairment.

Tips for Going To Movie Theaters With Low Vision

Tips for Going To Movie Theaters With Low Vision

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)

How To Write Alt Text For Educational Content

How To Write Alt Text For Educational Content

How to write alt text and image descriptions for classroom materials for students with visual impairment

Purposes of Media Descriptions for Visual Impairment

Purposes of Media Descriptions for Visual Impairment

Here are specific ways that I find media descriptions and tools like image descriptions and audio description helpful as someone with low vision.

How To Write Alt Text For Digital Comics

How To Write Alt Text For Digital Comics

Learn how to write alt text for digital comics and make comics accessible for blind and low vision audiences

How To Write Alt Text For Memes

How To Write Alt Text For Memes

I started sharing tips and strategies for how to write alt text for memes after I noticed how much accessible memes made a difference when I was browsing online content— things like alt text and image descriptions can help me figure out what is in…

My Thoughts On Visual Descriptions With Low Vision

My Thoughts On Visual Descriptions With Low Vision

Here are my thoughts on why I appreciate visual descriptions at events as a person with low vision, and my thought process for coming up with effective descriptions

How To Create Helpful Visual Descriptions For Visually Impaired Audiences

How To Create Helpful Visual Descriptions For Visually Impaired Audiences

When I first wrote this post on how to create helpful visual descriptions for visually impaired audiences in November 2021, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out not just how to describe what people look like, but what people should include when…

Satellite Campuses: College O&M

Satellite Campuses: College O&M

Shortly before my second year of college, I received a few orientation and mobility lessons for learning how to navigate with low vision and a blindness cane. These lessons were helpful for learning general travel skills, but I noticed they didn’t get into specifics about…

How To Make Music Accessible With Microsoft PowerPoint

How To Make Music Accessible With Microsoft PowerPoint

Here is how I make print and digital copies of music accessible for low vision with Microsoft PowerPoint. Also works with Microsoft Publisher and Google Slides