Tag: art

How To Create Image Descriptions For Red Carpet Looks

How To Create Image Descriptions For Red Carpet Looks

Learn how to describe looks from red carpet awards shows and galas for people with vision loss (low vison/blind)

Exploring Accessible Color Palettes For Low Vision

Exploring Accessible Color Palettes For Low Vision

How to write alt text for color palettes and create accessible color palettes for low vision/visual impairment and colorblindness

Audio Art Resources For Visually Impaired Students

Audio Art Resources For Visually Impaired Students

(Mostly) free art resources for visually impaired students, including podcasts, audio artwork, and ideas for accessible art lessons

Painting Pottery With Low Vision

Painting Pottery With Low Vision

Tips and tricks for painting pottery with low vision at pottery painting studios, including choosing colors and ways to make it easier to paint without mistakes

How To Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the Visually Impaired

How To Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the Visually Impaired

The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text

Free Braille Art and Tactile Image Libraries: World Braille Day

Free Braille Art and Tactile Image Libraries: World Braille Day

As part of a semester-long school project for one of my graduate classes, I researched several free braille art and tactile image libraries that could be used for educational activities relating to science, agriculture, ecology, and several other topics. Even though I don’t personally use…

Concert Band and Low Vision Accommodations

Concert Band and Low Vision Accommodations

Tips for musicians participating in concert band programs with visual impairment, based on my experiences as a clarinet player with low vision

Streaming Audio Description For Performing Arts Videos

Streaming Audio Description For Performing Arts Videos

I was introduced to streaming audio description for performing arts videos when I watched Twelfth Night with audio description through the National Theatre At Home service. Since then, I’ve discovered several other paid and free streaming services offering audio description for plays, ballet, opera, musicals,…

How To Write Alt Text For Gifs

How To Write Alt Text For Gifs

As a user with low vision that is sensitive to strobe, flashing, and fast-moving animations, I frequently rely on others knowing how to write alt text for GIFs or how to describe GIFs so that I can engage in social interactions or posts without triggering…

Art Classes and Low Vision

Art Classes and Low Vision

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

Using PicsArt To Simulate Low Vision

Using PicsArt To Simulate Low Vision

When I experienced a significant vision decline in high school, one of the most common questions from my teachers, case manager, and teacher of the visually impaired (TVI/TSVI) was “so what can you see?” I was the only student identified with low vision at my…

Ten Ways Visual Impairment Influenced Classic Artists

Ten Ways Visual Impairment Influenced Classic Artists

A list of ten visually impaired artists from throughout history that are suspected to have had vision loss not corrected by glasses.