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Background Sounds and Ambient Audio for Low Vision

Background Sounds and Ambient Audio for Low Vision

Ad-free background sounds and ambient audio for vision breaks, classroom music, studying, and relaxation. Includes options with keyboard shortcuts and low vision accessibility features

Building Identification: College O&M

Building Identification: College O&M

Shortly before my second year of college, I received a few orientation and mobility lessons for learning how to navigate with low vision and a blindness cane. These lessons were helpful for learning general travel skills, but I noticed they didn’t get into specifics about…

Tips For Doing Laundry In College With Low Vision

Tips For Doing Laundry In College With Low Vision

Learning to do laundry at home and college

Assistive Technology and Dressing Aids For Low Vision

Assistive Technology and Dressing Aids For Low Vision

Using assistive technology to get dressed in the morning with low vision

Organizing Hanging Storage With Vision Loss

Organizing Hanging Storage With Vision Loss

Instead of keeping items in drawers or locations with less-than-ideal lighting conditions, some people with visual impairments may prefer to use hanging storage organization tools that attach to walls, doors, or other vertical spaces. These hanging storage organizers place items within the line of sight…

Campus Deliveries: College O&M

Campus Deliveries: College O&M

Shortly before my second year of college, I received a few orientation and mobility lessons for learning how to navigate with low vision and a blindness cane. These lessons were helpful for learning general travel skills, but I noticed they didn’t get into specifics about…

Tips For Siblings Going To The Same College

Tips For Siblings Going To The Same College

Over the years, I have met many older siblings who refused to let their younger sibling attend the same college as they did, because it was “their” school and they couldn’t even fathom siblings going to the same college or having their sibling sharing the…

Dealing With Dorm Fire Alarms: College O&M

Dealing With Dorm Fire Alarms: College O&M

Dealing with the infamous dorm fire alarms when you have a vision impairment

Dorms and Campus Housing: College O&M

Dorms and Campus Housing: College O&M

Shortly before my second year of college, I received a few orientation and mobility lessons for learning how to navigate with low vision and a blindness cane. These lessons were helpful for learning general travel skills, but I noticed they didn’t get into specifics about…

My Favorite Tips For College Sibling Weekend

My Favorite Tips For College Sibling Weekend

My university hosts a “kids and sibs” college sibling weekend every spring that allows younger family members to spend a weekend at the university doing all sorts of fun “college life” activities like going to the dining hall, watching movies, spending the night in the…

Campus Delivery Robots: College O&M

Campus Delivery Robots: College O&M

How I use Starship delivery robots on my college campus and avoid running into them with my blindness cane

How To Make A Dorm Room Completely Dark

How To Make A Dorm Room Completely Dark

Products that help to make a dorm room completely dark for college students with migraines, based on my own on-campus experience