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How To Adapt Puzzle Games For Low Vision

How To Adapt Puzzle Games For Low Vision

When I was in elementary school, my parents would buy large print word search and other puzzle books that would keep me entertained for hours at home or on a long drive. Over time, the font size of the large print puzzle books has become…

Zine Accessibility and Low Vision

Zine Accessibility and Low Vision

I started learning about zine accessibility when one of my favorite cooking blogs released a zine filled with several different recipes that I was excited to try, which had been made available both as a print and a digital copy that I downloaded from their…

Enabling Temporary Accessibility Settings For iPad

Enabling Temporary Accessibility Settings For iPad

As a user with low vision and a neurological condition, I rely on accessibility settings for iPad so that I can access information and interact with different types of content. However, there are some cases where I do not need to have settings enabled constantly,…

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…

Socratic App Accessibility Review

Socratic App Accessibility Review

As a college student studying data science, I have to have a basic understanding of different subjects and topics so that I can better understand the data I am working with and how to best create a simulation or analyze the data for a given…

Windows Magnifier and Low Vision

Windows Magnifier and Low Vision

Recently, one of my friends texted me asking for tips on using Windows Magnifier with low vision, and asked how to customize settings for Window Magnifier. While this friend doesn’t normally have low vision, they had recently had their eyes dilated and were unable to…

Zoom Magnifier and Low Vision

Zoom Magnifier and Low Vision

When my friend first got an iPad, their first question to me was about how to use Apple’s Zoom screen magnification tool so that they could use their iPad with low vision. Since they use screen magnification software on their computer already, it was fairly…

Playing Cards and Low Vision

Playing Cards and Low Vision

Recently, I was practicing French by playing a card game with my friends and their family. When I was telling a different friend about this, they looked at me very confused and asked how we were all able to play cards, since I have low…

Magnifying Glasses For Low Vision

Magnifying Glasses For Low Vision

Magnifying glasses are perhaps the most iconic assistive technology for low vision and vision loss, as they help to make everything bigger and make objects and text easier to see. I have several types of magnifying glasses for low vision in my assistive technology collection…

Dialog Boxes and Low Vision

Dialog Boxes and Low Vision

Recently, one of my friends came to me asking if a program they had written was executing correctly, because they couldn’t see their computer dialog boxes due to low vision. My friend and I spent the afternoon trying to come up with solutions to enlarge…

Instructor Evaluations and Low Vision

Instructor Evaluations and Low Vision

How to make instructor evaluations accessible to students with vision impairments and print disabilities while preserving privacy and anonymity.

All About The Eschenbach SmartLux Digital Video Magnifier

All About The Eschenbach SmartLux Digital Video Magnifier

My review of the Eschenbach SmartLux video magnifier/portable CCTV

How I Use The HIMS E-Bot Pro In College

How I Use The HIMS E-Bot Pro In College

My review of the E-Bot Pro, a video magnifier/portable CCTV approved for standardized testing