Tag: Social interaction

How To Transfer To A Virtual Class Mid-Year

How To Transfer To A Virtual Class Mid-Year

How to transfer to a virtual class partially through the year or at the mid-year mark from a traditional classroom environment. Great for students with IEPs, 504 plans, or other emergency situations.

Having An Undiagnosed Chronic Illness In High School

Having An Undiagnosed Chronic Illness In High School

Questions I was asked about my undiagnosed chronic illness in high school

How To Be An Effective Human Guide For People With Vision Loss

How To Be An Effective Human Guide For People With Vision Loss

How to be a human guide for someone with low vision and avoid having them walk into a pole

Texting and Low Vision

Texting and Low Vision

Yes, people with blindness and low vision can text. Here are some things to keep in mind when composing messages

How To Make Instagram Stories Accessible For Low Vision Users

How To Make Instagram Stories Accessible For Low Vision Users

The other day, I received a post request on Twitter asking about how to make Instagram stories accessible for low vision users. While I am not an active Instagram user, I am very familiar with Instagram stories and how they are used, as well as…

Ten Things To Know About Going To College With A Blindness Cane

Ten Things To Know About Going To College With A Blindness Cane

I started using a blindness cane (also known as a white cane) full-time during my first semester of college while living on campus. As a student with low vision, using a cane gave me a tremendous amount of freedom and independence, accompanying me everywhere from…

How To Be An Active Bystander For Academic Ableism

How To Be An Active Bystander For Academic Ableism

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…

School Pictures and Low Vision

School Pictures and Low Vision

How to make sure school pictures come out great when you have low vision

How To Write Video Descriptions For TikTok

How To Write Video Descriptions For TikTok

I wrote my first post on how to write video descriptions for TikTok and other short-form video content in 2019 after my friends started sending me several different videos from the platform. TikTok video accessibility has changed a lot since then, and I’ve updated my…

Strategies for Hand Raising and Low Vision

Strategies for Hand Raising and Low Vision

When I was shadowing a classroom teacher in an elementary school, I noticed that I had trouble noticing when students were raising their hands, or figuring out which student was raising their hand. When I talked about this with one of my professors, they helped…

Audio and Nonvisual Entertainment Ideas For Blind and Low Vision

Audio and Nonvisual Entertainment Ideas For Blind and Low Vision

I’ve received a few emails from readers asking about nonvisual entertainment and ideas for listening to different types of content that goes beyond the typical listening to music or listening to an audiobook. There are a ton of different types of audio content for blind…

How I Respond To Questions/Comments About My Eyes

How I Respond To Questions/Comments About My Eyes

Even though the title of my blog is Veronica With Four Eyes, a lot of questions and comments I get about my eyes from curious strangers, friends, family, children, and medical professionals are about the two eyes in my head. I have low vision, or…