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Tips For Be My Eyes Volunteers From A User With Low Vision

Tips For Be My Eyes Volunteers From A User With Low Vision

As a person with low vision, I’ve used Be My Eyes and similar visual interpreting applications many times over the years for various tasks, including reading labels, identifying objects, and getting information about my surroundings. My experience with Be My Eyes volunteers has been generally…

Supporting Classroom Volunteers With Low Vision

Supporting Classroom Volunteers With Low Vision

I’ve had many opportunities to be a classroom volunteer and classroom visitor in a variety of different classrooms in my community and across the country, my favorite experience being when I was part of a high school mentorship program in an elementary school technology classroom.…

Tips For BeSpecular Volunteers From A Visually Impaired User

Tips For BeSpecular Volunteers From A Visually Impaired User

Several of my friends have signed up as volunteers for Be My Eyes and have been sad that they haven’t been able to take any calls because they were busy or couldn’t get to a call in time. They asked me if I knew of…

How To Create Audio Description For YouTube With YouDescribe

How To Create Audio Description For YouTube With YouDescribe

YouTube accessibility has improved tremendously over the years, and one of my favorite tools for making YouTube accessible for viewers with vision loss is YouDescribe. YouDescribe gives volunteer users the ability to create audio description tracks for publicly listed videos on YouTube, recording an additional…

Ten Skills I Learned During My High School Mentorship

Ten Skills I Learned During My High School Mentorship

How a high school mentorship helped me in high school, college, and beyond