My university hosts a “kids and sibs” college sibling weekend every spring that allows younger family members to spend a weekend at the university doing all sorts of fun “college life” activities like going to the dining hall, watching movies, spending the night in the…

How to create a disability services file in college and make sure services are set for the first day

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Including students with vision impairment in art classes and art projects. Get ready for things to be inside and outside the lines simultaneously

What I’ve learned about print disabilities as a low vision student who uses large print

Back in 2020, I took an online pre-calculus/trigonometry course that used McGraw-Hill’s ALEKS adaptive learning for practice problems, homework, assignments, and quizzes. As a student with low vision that primarily access information visually with large print with a secondary preference for audio access with text-to-speech,…

Back in 2018, I took a business calculus class that used Pearson’s MyMathLab adaptive learning platform (now called MyLab Math) for homework, assignments, quizzes, and tests. As a student with low vision that primarily accesses information visually with large print and screen magnification with a…

My experience using WebAssign with low vision while taking Calculus 1 and Calculus 2 online as a student that primarily accesses information visually/in large print

When I first published this post in 2019, I was researching solutions on how to modify anatomy diagrams for the visually impaired (inclusive of low vision/blind) for a friend with low vision. Since then, my friend has earned their doctorate, and I’ve learned about several…

I have low vision and primarily access information visually using tools like large print and magnification, so I rely on various types of low vision assistive technology to access digital text. One category of tools that I rely on heavily when accessing web content is…

In math and statistics classes, instructors often provide students with a formula sheet that contains equations, tables, and other helpful definitions that students can refer to during assignments and exams. As a student with low vision that primarily accesses information visually, a lot of these…