Tips for pre-planning student access needs in programming and coding courses, and proactively addressing accessible coding barriers through pre-teaching programming languages

Make school spirit accessible to all! Learn how to create audio description for college fight song and gameday cheers for low vision and blind students

How to write alt text and image descriptions for classroom materials for students with visual impairment

Here are specific ways that I find media descriptions and tools like image descriptions and audio description helpful as someone with low vision.

When I wrote the first version of this post in 2019, I included seven accessibility features most people didn’t realize existed in Microsoft Office products, many of which I had learned about during my time as a Microsoft intern. Since then, Microsoft Office has added…

Tips for studying, scheduling, and self care for midterms and finals

When I first created a BlueSky account, I couldn’t find much information about BlueSky accessibility settings or using BlueSky with low vision. To make it easier for new users to navigate the platform, here is an overview of BlueSky accessibility features for low vision and…

In order to streamline the digital workflow process, my second high school suggested implementing shared folders for accessible materials so I could get copies of digital assignments more easily. This worked well from the teacher perspective, since they could easily add documents to a folder…

On July 23, 2024, Mattel released Barbie Fashionista Doll 228, also known as “Blind Barbie,” developed with guidance from the American Foundation for the Blind and the Royal National Institute of Blind People. As a cane user with low vision who loves wearing colorful outfits,…

I spend a lot of time in online spaces, so I often learn to identify people based on their usernames, display names, or similar account names. As someone with low vision and a print disability that makes it challenging to read standard print, accessible usernames…

I consider myself a primarily visual learner, but my eyes and brain don’t always agree with that. Factors like eye strain, fluctuating eyesight, and fatigue from reading can make it more challenging for me to study visual materials, which means I often pivot to audio…

When my mom’s Cox email address was transitioned to Yahoo as part of a planned migration transferring Cox email addresses to the Yahoo Mail program, she couldn’t access her email for several days from Microsoft Outlook or from the Apple Mail app, and asked me…