Blind and Nonvisual Access

How To Write Alt Text For Amateur Art

How To Write Alt Text For Amateur Art

Over the years, I have been friends with many visual artists who create wonderful amateur art across a variety of mediums. One of these friends often creates unique art with lots of bold colors inspired by pop culture and their own original characters that they…

Creating Custom Workouts With Amazon Alexa

Creating Custom Workouts With Amazon Alexa

As part of physical therapy, I was given a list of exercises to do at home a few times a week that will help me with my treatment goals. I noticed that it was challenging for me to remember how many exercises I was supposed…

How To Describe Primary Source Videos For Visually Impaired Audiences

How To Describe Primary Source Videos For Visually Impaired Audiences

As a person with low vision that is highly sensitive to flashing lights, I often engage with primary source videos and videos of current events with my eyes closed, auto-play turned off, or the video window hidden from view. This isn’t because I want to…

How Amazon Alexa Can Help With Online Learning

How Amazon Alexa Can Help With Online Learning

I’m currently enrolled in full-time online classes, and I frequently work on assignments at my desk with an Amazon Echo Dot by my side. I’ve been using Amazon Alexa and Echo devices for online learning for many years now, because I find it to be…

Writing Extended Image Descriptions On Social Media

Writing Extended Image Descriptions On Social Media

Write extended image descriptions that include accessible text and essential image details for blind and low vision audiences

How To Make Refrigerators Accessible For Visual Impairment

How To Make Refrigerators Accessible For Visual Impairment

Learning how to make a refrigerator accessible for visual impairment is a task that can include not only arranging the contents of the refrigerator inside, but organizing information or other items that can be attached to the refrigerator itself or placed on doors. Many of…

Decoding The Tips of Blindness Canes

Decoding The Tips of Blindness Canes

When I first started using a blindness cane, I wasn’t sure what kind of cane tip to purchase for my first cane, and had just been told to buy something before I started college. I ended up buying a random pencil cane tip on Amazon…

Ten Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Bookshare

Ten Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Bookshare

I’m a huge fan of the Bookshare accessible online library for people with print disabilities, and have been using the service since I was a freshman in high school. I interact with Bookshare in some capacity every day, whether it’s checking out new books, reading…

Tips For Using A Human Guide At A Conference

Tips For Using A Human Guide At A Conference

As a student with low vision who uses a blindness cane/white cane to navigate unfamiliar environments, I find it helpful to use either a human guide or a visual interpreter when I travel to conferences, walk around exhibit halls, or attend fairs and smaller events…

How To Write Video Descriptions For Animal Videos

How To Write Video Descriptions For Animal Videos

One of my favorite things on the internet is described videos and pictures of animals on social media, especially when people are sharing their own pets or favorite animals. While I can see many details of a video or image when I zoom in, I…

All About Audio Description For Broadway Plays

All About Audio Description For Broadway Plays

My experience using Dear Evan Hansen audio description as a theatergoer with low vision.

Tactile Pavement and Accessible Walkways For Visually Impaired

Tactile Pavement and Accessible Walkways For Visually Impaired

In March 2019, the Google homepage highlighted the 52nd anniversary of when tactile pavement was first installed in Okayama City, Japan, which literally paved the way for other cities and countries to incorporate brightly colored pavement with raised dots and lines into different environments to…