Recreation and Leisure

Accessible Playing Cards For Low Vision

Accessible Playing Cards For Low Vision

How to make playing cards accessible for low vision, including options to buy, DIY, and download accessible playing cards with large print and/or braille.

Model UN Disability Accommodations For Low Vision

Model UN Disability Accommodations For Low Vision

Examples of Model UN disability accommodations for low vision and ways to use assistive technology for participating in Model UN with visual impairment

Baking Banana Bread With Assistive Technology

Baking Banana Bread With Assistive Technology

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…

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…

Creating Accessible Crafting Tutorials For Visual Impairment

Creating Accessible Crafting Tutorials For Visual Impairment

Many of the people I meet with visual impairments have an interest in DIY projects or crafting in some capacity. Some are more interested in fiber arts and work on projects like crocheting or knitting with low vision, embroidery, or sewing in some capacity, while…

Tips For Going To Prom With Chronic Illness

Tips For Going To Prom With Chronic Illness

Attending prom with low vision, photosensitivity, and migraines

School Field Trips And Low Vision

School Field Trips And Low Vision

How to include students with IEPs and 504s on class trips, with a special focus on low vision and blindness

Zine Accessibility and Low Vision

Zine Accessibility and Low Vision

I started learning about zine accessibility when one of my favorite cooking blogs released a zine filled with several different recipes that I was excited to try, which had been made available both as a print and a digital copy that I downloaded from their…

Requesting Extracurricular Accommodations

Requesting Extracurricular Accommodations

How to explain your disability accommodations and ensure they are followed in extracurricular settings

Swing Dancing And Low Vision

Swing Dancing And Low Vision

When one of my best friends and I were undergraduate students, we would go to swing dance lessons and social dances held by the swing dance club on campus, which was a fun way for us to get some exercise and get to know other…

Visiting The Met With Visual Impairment

Visiting The Met With Visual Impairment

When my brother and I went to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (also known as The Met), I wasn’t entirely sure how much of the art I would be able to see. While it may seem odd visiting The Met…

Accessible Dice For Low Vision

Accessible Dice For Low Vision

Some of my friends love playing tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs), and one of them recently sent me a message asking if there was a way to make accessible dice for visually impaired players or a dice rolling device for a player with visual impairment (a…