Tag: transportation

How I Learned To Use The City Bus System With Low Vision

How I Learned To Use The City Bus System With Low Vision

How to use the bus system with low vision/blindness and master college and city buses

Tactile Pavement and Accessible Walkways For Visually Impaired

Tactile Pavement and Accessible Walkways For Visually Impaired

In March 2019, the Google homepage highlighted the 52nd anniversary of when tactile pavement was first installed in Okayama City, Japan, which literally paved the way for other cities and countries to incorporate brightly colored pavement with raised dots and lines into different environments to…

Tips For Passing Time On Flights With Low Vision

Tips For Passing Time On Flights With Low Vision

I rode a plane for the first time when I was 21 to travel to San Diego for the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, and one of my friends had given me a few tips for passing time on flights with low vision in advance of…

Airport Security and Low Vision

Airport Security and Low Vision

How to get plane safety information for blind and vision impaired travelers on any airline. Great for beginners or children/teenagers

How A TSA Pre-Check Helps Me As A Visually Impaired Traveler

How A TSA Pre-Check Helps Me As A Visually Impaired Traveler

Get through TSA screenings in minutes and avoid taking everything out of your carry on for $17 a year.

Getting a Reduced Fare SmarTrip Card With Low Vision

Getting a Reduced Fare SmarTrip Card With Low Vision

While attending college in the Washington DC Metro area, I qualified for the reduced fare SmarTrip card since I have low vision, which gave me discounts on Metrorail services and other fares. A lot of students with vision loss at my college didn’t know about…