Blind and Nonvisual Access

Visible Body Suite accessibility features for low vision, including options for viewing accessible 3D anatomy models with a screen reader.

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

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

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

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

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…

In 2018, I attended a Major League Baseball (MLB) game while visiting St. Louis, where I got to watch the St. Louis Cardinals play the Atlanta Braves. On that trip, I had the opportunity to learn about MLB baseball game accessibility for visually impaired spectators,…

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.

Many of the students I have met over the years haven’t been motivated to participate in summer reading programs because they aren’t excited about the prizes being offered. Many summer reading programs hosted at libraries offer copies of books as prizes, which are inaccessible to…

In order to streamline the digital workflow process, my second high school suggested implementing shared folders for accessible materials so I could get copies of digital assignments more easily. This worked well from the teacher perspective, since they could easily add documents to a folder…

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…