When my brother and I went to visit New York City in 2018, one of the things I was most excited about was visiting the Museum of Modern Art with vision loss. While it may seem odd that someone who uses a blindness cane would…

I love listening to live music and watching concert videos and music videos from my favorite bands, but it’s difficult for me to attend events in person since I have a medical condition that causes photosensitivity, or a sensitivity to strobe and flashing lights. Since…

One of my all-time favorite accessibility tools for low vision and photosensitivity is audio description, which I first discovered when going to a movie with friends at the end of my freshman year in college. I immediately started wondering where this amazing technology had been…

YouTube accessibility has improved tremendously over the years, and one of my favorite tools for making YouTube accessible for viewers with vision loss is YouDescribe. YouDescribe gives volunteer users the ability to create audio description tracks for publicly listed videos on YouTube, recording an additional…

When I was visiting St Louis, I had a list of places that I wanted to visit, which included the St Louis Zoo, the Gateway Arch, a MLB baseball game, and a few other places. However, I had to rearrange a few of my plans…

My local library is currently promoting several free audiobook summer reading programs powered by the Sora application, including Sweet Reads, new audiobooks, and Audiobook SYNC for readers thirteen and older. As someone with a print disability that can’t read traditional printed books, it’s exciting to…

When I first learned about TumbleBooks and their online audio narrated picture books, one of the first questions I had was “where was this when I was a kid?” I have a print disability that makes it near impossible for me to read books in…

A few years ago, I was giving a tour of George Mason University to a prospective student that ended abruptly due to a chronic illness flare. The student mentioned that they had wanted to see the inside of several campus buildings like the classrooms and…

Before one of my close friends moved to another country, they gave me a handwritten card that is filled with all sorts of memories and inside jokes about our friendship. Shortly after they handed me the card, my friend asked me if I can read…

In 2018, I advocated to add a content warning for strobe and flashing lights in the movie Incredibles 2, after I got sick while watching the movie with my family in theaters. While talking to various media outlets about my experience, I mentioned how audio…

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