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How To Make Easter Egg Hunts Accessible For Low Vision

How To Make Easter Egg Hunts Accessible For Low Vision

Including people with vision impairments in Easter egg hunts

How To Be An Effective Human Guide For People With Vision Loss

How To Be An Effective Human Guide For People With Vision Loss

How to be a human guide for someone with low vision and avoid having them walk into a pole

How To Make Virtual Museums Accessible For Visual Impairments

How To Make Virtual Museums Accessible For Visual Impairments

Free accessibility resources available to museum guests with blindness and low vision

Promoting Cast Involvement In Audio Description

Promoting Cast Involvement In Audio Description

For my undergraduate advanced English class in college, I decided to write my final paper about audio description in theater, specifically the use of audio description in amateur/local theater, and the benefits of promoting cast involvement in audio description, and today I’m sharing the paper…

Ways To Support New Accessibility Advocates

Ways To Support New Accessibility Advocates

Almost five years ago, I was sitting in my dorm room at George Mason University, bored out of my mind and trying to figure out what to do for the weekend. My homework for my assistive technology class was finished at this point, and I…

Creating Audio Description For Science Experiments With YouDescribe

Creating Audio Description For Science Experiments With YouDescribe

Today, I received a question from a science teacher asking if I had any tips for creating audio description for science experiments and science lab videos. Since they were going to be posting videos of science experiments to a class website, they wanted to ensure…

Blindness Canes and WonderWord: An O&M Word Search

Blindness Canes and WonderWord: An O&M Word Search

To celebrate White Cane Safety Day on October 15th, I had the opportunity to collaborate with WonderWord word search puzzles to create a blindness cane themed word search that introduces players to common terminology associated with white canes as well as orientation and mobility (O&M)…

Seeing The Future: My Feature in 10 Ideas From Roosevelt Institute

Seeing The Future: My Feature in 10 Ideas From Roosevelt Institute

What if higher education was made more accessible for visually impaired students in Virginia through online resources? Earlier this year, I entered the 10 Ideas policy writing competition. The yearly competition is by the Roosevelt Network, a nonpartisan student-led think tank that is part of…

How Students Can Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day

How Students Can Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Every year, people from all around the world gather to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and this year is no exception. I’ve noticed that many of the events are targetted at professionals who want to learn more about accessibility and people who are already involved…

My Appearance On AT The Heart: Assistive And Inclusive Technology Stories Podcast

My Appearance On AT The Heart: Assistive And Inclusive Technology Stories Podcast

This week, I had the awesome opportunity to be a guest on the AT The Heart: Assistive And Inclusive Technology Stories podcast, which is hosted by one of my Twitter friends, Hillary Goldthwait-Fowles. I had a lot of fun getting to talk about the importance…

Going To A MLB Baseball Game With Low Vision

Going To A MLB Baseball Game With Low Vision

When I went to St Louis, I had the opportunity to attend a St Louis Cardinals MLB baseball game on one of the nights while I was there. While the weather was incredibly hot, it was really cool to see all of the different ways…

Should I Request a Human Guide At a Conference?

Should I Request a Human Guide At a Conference?

One of the questions I tend to ask myself when I am registering for a conference is if I should request a human guide to help me familiarize myself with the conference layout and find my way to different booths and lectures. While I consider…

How To Identify Money With Low Vision

How To Identify Money With Low Vision

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet people from the US Bureau of Engraving, which designs and produces paper money, amongst other things, for the United States government. I was surprised to learn about the world of free resources for identifying US…

How To Embrace Assistive Technology With Limited Funding

How To Embrace Assistive Technology With Limited Funding

I started Veronica With Four Eyes two years and about three hundred posts ago today to introduce people to various low-cost assistive technology solutions I have come up with over the years, as specialized assistive technology was not in the budget while I was attending…

Creating Inclusive and Accessible Video Lectures For Visually Impaired Audiences

Creating Inclusive and Accessible Video Lectures For Visually Impaired Audiences

One of the questions I frequently receive from teachers filming videos for their classes is about if there is anything that they can do to create accessible video lectures for students who are blind or that have low vision. While I talk a lot about…