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Visible Body Suite Accessibility For Low Vision: 3D Anatomy Models

Visible Body Suite Accessibility For Low Vision: 3D Anatomy Models

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

Navigating Project Task List Spreadsheets With Low Vision

Navigating Project Task List Spreadsheets With Low Vision

Simple strategies I use to read project task list spreadsheets in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel with low vision and large print text

Free Accessible Periodic Tables For Low Vision

Free Accessible Periodic Tables For Low Vision

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

How To Create Custom iOS Icons and Custom Home Screen Designs

How To Create Custom iOS Icons and Custom Home Screen Designs

How to customize iOS icons for low vision users and design home screens that are easier to see with vision loss

Watching MLB Baseball Games With Low Vision

Watching MLB Baseball Games With Low Vision

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,…

Low Vision Assistive Technology For Discussion Board Posts

Low Vision Assistive Technology For Discussion Board Posts

Discussion board posts are a key part of college experiences, especially in online classes and in graduate school programs. I love discussion boards because I often learn so much from students and instructors alike about different topics, problem solving ideas, and areas of interest, but…

Tips For Using VDWrite In The Classroom With Low Vision

Tips For Using VDWrite In The Classroom With Low Vision

Some of the students I’ve worked with find the feature-rich layouts of applications like Microsoft Word or Notability to be visually overwhelming and prefer a simpler layout for authoring and editing text. Many of them prefer the VDWrite application for iPad as it provides several…

Create An Accessible Digital Cookbook With Microsoft Products

Create An Accessible Digital Cookbook With Microsoft Products

A few years ago, my friends and I wanted to share our favorite recipes in a digital one-page document, and I outlined this process in a post on how to create a cookbook in Microsoft Sway. When I went back to update this post, I…

Tuva Tools and Low Vision Accessibility

Tuva Tools and Low Vision Accessibility

When I first started using graphs and charts in math classes, I decided that I hated them. As a student with low vision, I often encountered charts that featured low resolution images, black and white or grayscale color schemes, blurry text, or hard-to-read keys that…

How I Access PowerPoints with Microsoft Sway

How I Access PowerPoints with Microsoft Sway

As a student with low vision, I sometimes have trouble reading the PowerPoint slides that my instructors post on the course website or share with me so I can follow along with class. Things like small font sizes and multi-column layouts are great for presenting…

Configuring Padlet For Low Vision Accessibility

Configuring Padlet For Low Vision Accessibility

My first introduction to Padlet accessibility features was when I was in high school and realized I couldn’t see any of the text or images that my instructor had just shared for a virtual class, and they told me I had to figure out how…

Using Google Live Transcribe With Low Vision

Using Google Live Transcribe With Low Vision

Something I have noticed with Chiari Malformation and associated mild auditory processing issues is that it can be challenging for me to follow along with conversations if there’s a lot of background noise or distracting sounds. Since I also have low vision, it can be…