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Teach Kids About Low Vision and Assistive Technology: Free Resources

Teach Kids About Low Vision and Assistive Technology: Free Resources

Learn about low vision and assistive technology with the help of free resources and activity ideas, curated by an assistive technology specialist with low vision

Lemon On A Pear: Accessible Memes For Low Vision

Lemon On A Pear: Accessible Memes For Low Vision

Take my hand, and we’ll make it accessible I swear, learn about accessible memes for low vision in this story about a lemon on a pear/Livin’ on a Prayer

Going To Restaurants With Low Vision Assistive Technology

Going To Restaurants With Low Vision Assistive Technology

Tips for going to restaurants with low vision, including finding accessible menus, free apps for visual impairment accessibility, and using assistive technology independently

College Game Day and Sporting Events: College O&M

College Game Day and Sporting Events: 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…

How I Talk About Disability With New Friends

How I Talk About Disability With New Friends

I’m often one of the first people that people at my school meet that has low vision or that lives with a chronic illness. While there are several other students that have vision loss or that live with other invisible disabilities, I have chosen to…

Tips for Going To Movie Theaters With Low Vision

Tips for Going To Movie Theaters With Low Vision

Tips and strategies I have used when going to the movies and visiting movie theaters with low vision and light sensitivity (photophobia and/or photosensitivity)

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…

Tips For Going To Prom With Chronic Illness

Tips For Going To Prom With Chronic Illness

Attending prom with low vision, photosensitivity, and migraines

Tips And Advice For New Accessibility Advocates

Tips And Advice For New Accessibility Advocates

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…

Accessible Yearbooks and Low Vision

Accessible Yearbooks and Low Vision

Yearbooks are a fun end-of-school-year tradition that allow students to celebrate their accomplishments and friendships that they have made during the year and provide opportunities for documenting memories. My school yearbooks are the only books I own that have a small/standard print size, and it’s…

Taking Selfies With Low Vision

Taking Selfies With Low Vision

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…

RS Games: Free Online Accessible Games For The Visually Impaired

RS Games: Free Online Accessible Games For The Visually Impaired

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…