When I experienced a significant vision decline in high school, one of the most common questions from my teachers, case manager, and teacher of the visually impaired (TVI/TSVI) was “so what can you see?” I was the only student identified with low vision at my…

The meaning of blindness cane colors and what the color of a blindness cane can tell you about someone’s sight loss.

When I was in middle school and high school, I frequently experienced anxiety related to receiving IEP disability accommodations for visual impairment. There were times where I felt my disability made me stand out a lot and that it was obvious that I had trouble…

How my support team implemented “quiet place” accommodations so I could manage visual fatigue and sensory overload at school

Learn how to write alt text for digital comics and make comics accessible for blind and low vision audiences

I started sharing tips and strategies for how to write alt text for memes after I noticed how much accessible memes made a difference when I was browsing online content— things like alt text and image descriptions can help me figure out what is in…

Here are my thoughts on why I appreciate visual descriptions at events as a person with low vision, and my thought process for coming up with effective descriptions

When I first wrote this post on how to create helpful visual descriptions for visually impaired audiences in November 2021, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out not just how to describe what people look like, but what people should include when…

Examples of Model UN disability accommodations for low vision and ways to use assistive technology for participating in Model UN with visual impairment

Ten staff members you should meet before or at the beginning of college

When I was in middle and high school, many teachers and school staff members encouraged me to develop strong self-advocacy skills so that I could feel comfortable talking about my low vision and what accommodations I would need in the classroom. Talking to a substitute…

When I lived in college dorm/on-campus housing, the resident advisors for my floor would create dorm door signs and dorm door decorations for students that included their name and a fun design. There are a lot of creative dorm door decorations, and I received an…