I started reading Bookshare titles with Microsoft Word when I was working on a school project and wanted a quick way to navigate my downloaded eBooks on my computer with a software I was already familiar with. My tablet and eReader were serving as more…

It’s easy to assume that in order to create any form of art, one must have perfect eyesight so they can paint rich landscapes like Claude Monet or draw sketches like Leonardo da Vinci. However, it’s surprising  to learn that several of the most famous…

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When I was living in a college dorm, I honestly didn’t put much thought into how I would organize or identify cords for charging technology, connecting peripheral devices to my computer, or arranging items that are connected to a surge protector- I sort of just…

I love how a pair of colorful, comfortable shoes can pull an outfit together, or how the right pair of athletic shoes can make a huge difference for exercise or going for a walk. I’ve tried a few different strategies for organizing shoes with vision…

I love wearing necklaces and earrings, and I can find my favorite pieces in less than a minute thanks to learning strategies for organizing jewelry with vision loss. I’ve experimented with a few different systems for jewelry organization over the years, including the use of…

One of my friends asked me to help them learn how to organize a dresser with visual impairment after they admitted they had given up on trying to keep clothes organized and just shoved things in drawers, feeling around to locate items and having trouble…

Even though I wear tinted glasses and am sensitive to bright lights, learning about how to choose lighting with low vision and learning how lighting affects my usable vision has helped me tremendously with adapting my living space and workspaces so I can make the…

Math assignments that involve drawing, sketching, or graphing elements by hand can be challenging for students with low vision who may have trouble with fine motor skills, creating visualizations or drawings of concepts, or viewing their own drawings/sketches. Even though I would understand what a…

When learning to identify and plot coordinates and points on a coordinate plane, students with low vision may find it challenging to orient themselves to where items are located on a page or draw coordinates on paper. Even though I would understand the steps I…

Math assignments often use multi-column layouts and place text or page elements close to each other to save space, which can be challenging for students with low vision that are already dealing with the high demand visual tasks that come with studying math. While some…

Elementary school math lessons introduce arithmetic and math symbols to students as they learn to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, which can be challenging for students with low vision that find it difficult to tell the difference between different types of math symbols. At one…