Below is a lightly edited version of a talk I gave on accessible memes for low vision. A better way to open this might be with a talk box and the sentence “once upon a time, not too long ago.” When I talk to classmates…

Last year, one of my best friends, who I will call Jane, experienced a great deal of academic ableism from a professor in their department. While I wasn’t there to witness what happened in the classroom, I watched Jane suffer from a mental and emotional…

While sitting in my dorm room at George Mason University in 2016, I came across an event listing from the Center for Accessibility at DC Public Library where people could come in and have conversations about assistive technology. I had been considering starting a blog/website…

Over the weekend, one of my friends sent me a video recorded by an active bystander for academic ableism who was showing a situation where a student was being berated by the professor for their disability. These types of videos are triggering for me to…

Even though I was diagnosed with low vision around the age of three, I didn’t realize until I was in middle school that blindness  and vision loss was a spectrum and not a binary— up until that point, I figured that anyone who used a…

A few years ago, one of my best friends called me late at night feeling extremely distressed, because they were trying to figure out if they should report disability accommodation violations. Their professor hadn’t been following the accommodations listed in their Disability Services file, and…

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…

Recently, a group of friends and I were talking about places to find free online accessible multiplayer games for people who are blind or that have low vision, and one of my friends recommended RS Games. After browsing through the documentation, my friends and I…

I love picking out greeting cards for my friends and family and receiving cards for birthdays and holidays with lovely messages inside. As my vision has declined and changed over the years, I have passed along tips and suggestions for choosing greeting cards for visually…

Viral videos are a common conversation topic in my friend group, but there are times when I’m watching a video and I have no idea why it is funny or popular. Something that helps me a lot is watching videos with audio description, which provides…

Over the last few years, I have amassed a large amount of friends who are blind or that have low vision. It’s an awesome thing, because we can all relate to various aspects of each other’s lives and learn more about cool accessibility related things…

When I was talking to a new friend about how I blog about low vision assistive technology, they asked me if I had any posts about taking selfies with vision loss or tips for taking selfies with low vision. I told them I was working…