Expanded Core Curriculum

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…

Create An Accessible Digital Cookbook With Microsoft Products

Create An Accessible Digital Cookbook With Microsoft Products

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…

How To Order Custom Colors for Blindness Canes

How To Order Custom Colors for Blindness Canes

When I had to order some more blindness canes (white canes) for college, I discovered that I could customize canes to include reflective tape in different colors that weren’t just white or red. I love anything purple, so I decided to order a white cane…

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…

How To Describe Science Experiments For Visually Impaired Students

How To Describe Science Experiments For Visually Impaired Students

When watching science experiments or participating in science labs, I would constantly find myself thinking or saying “what just happened?” after every step of the experiment. Since I have low vision, I often have trouble noticing subtle changes in science experiments or focusing in visually…

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…

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

Using Google Live Transcribe With Low Vision

Using Google Live Transcribe With Low Vision

Something I have noticed with Chiari Malformation and associated mild auditory processing issues is that it can be challenging for me to follow along with conversations if there’s a lot of background noise or distracting sounds. Since I also have low vision, it can be…

Smartphone Accessibility Settings For Photosensitivity

Smartphone Accessibility Settings For Photosensitivity

Functions to check before purchasing a phone if you have sensitivity to flashing lights

Explaining Disabiility Accommodations To Substitute Teachers

Explaining Disabiility Accommodations To Substitute Teachers

When I was in middle and high school, many teachers and school staff members encouraged me to develop strong self-advocacy skills so that I could feel comfortable talking about my low vision and what accommodations I would need in the classroom. Talking to a substitute…