Blind and Nonvisual Access

Free activity ideas for Global Accessibility Awareness Day that teach students about disability, assistive technology, and digital accessibility

Learn about low vision and assistive technology with the help of free resources and activity ideas, curated by an assistive technology specialist with low vision

Learn how to create an informal personal accessibility checklist for low vision and determine if an app or website is accessible for a specific student

A list of accessibility strategies for accessing the news with assistive technology for individuals with visual impairments, inclusive of low vision/blind/CVI

Here are my favorite tips for how to make Easter egg hunts accessible for low vision kids, focusing on low cost tools and adapting existing easter egg hunt materials

26 examples of assistive technology for low vision access that are used by people with visual impairments for work, school, and everyday life.

Learn about the features of accessible voting machines like ExpressVote and how I use them to vote with low vision in local, state, and federal elections in Virginia.

Tips for pre-planning student access needs in programming and coding courses, and proactively addressing accessible coding barriers through pre-teaching programming languages

Digital doesn’t always mean accessible! Learn more about file formats for low vision and print disabilities for the classroom and beyond

A list of OCR scanner apps for low vision students, useful for extracting text that can be read out loud with text-to-speech or displayed in large print.

How I use alternative formats menus like YuJa Panorama and Anthology Ally with low vision for accessing content in my online and hybrid college classes

A must-read for teachers of students with visual impairments, here are lessons my TVI taught me as a low vision student and resources for visually impaired students