Low Vision

When I lived in college dorm/on-campus housing, the resident advisors for my floor would create dorm door signs and dorm door decorations for students that included their name and a fun design. There are a lot of creative dorm door decorations, and I received an…

When I was shadowing an elementary school teacher, they asked me to help them design an accessible classroom library for their students with print disabilities, after we noticed that students seemed to be avoiding the library area or looking at the books in general. While…

When preparing for an IEP meeting, a 504 Plan meeting, or a Disability Services meeting, parents and students will often be asked to come up with sample accommodations that can be used to provide services for students in the classroom. However, it can be very…

A prospective student recently asked me if they really needed to get a Disability Services file for college, because they didn’t want to go through the intake process or go to a bunch of meetings when they would primarily be taking online classes and could…

Since I was in a tech-related major during undergrad, I became the default IT specialist and device troubleshooter for friends, family members, people who lived in my dorm building, and other students who had trouble using their computer or other mobile devices. Practical information technology…

My experiences with my state Protection and Advocacy organization, and why every student with a disability should know about them

A list of free apps that I used in my science classes as a student with low vision to access information, take notes, and make things bigger

My first experiences with recognizing images with Seeing AI were not something related to my schoolwork or anything academic— it was actually for recognizing memes. One of my best friends loves to send me text posts, screenshots, and other images with lots of text in…

Here are the accommodations I request for accessible print materials

When I was in middle school and high school, I didn’t know very much about document accessibility or how to create or remediate accessible assignments for low vision, but I could quickly figure out if someone handed me an assignment if I could read it…

How to use OneNote, a free note taking software that allows users to create multimedia notebooks and use accessible materials

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…