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Adapting Accessible Charts: Math Problems and Low Vision

Adapting Accessible Charts: Math Problems and Low Vision

When it comes to working with charts and visual representations of data, students with low vision may find it challenging to locate and interpret information, as well as explain why it is significant or important. When I was first introduced to charts as a student,…

Customize Microsoft Edge Accessibility For Low Vision

Customize Microsoft Edge Accessibility For Low Vision

An in-depth guide to customize Microsoft Edge accessibility for low vision. Make it easier to access web content with high contrast, custom fonts, and custom colors

Navigating Project Task List Spreadsheets With Low Vision

Navigating Project Task List Spreadsheets With Low Vision

Simple strategies I use to read project task list spreadsheets in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel with low vision and large print text

How To Make Music Accessible With Microsoft PowerPoint

How To Make Music Accessible With Microsoft PowerPoint

Here is how I make print and digital copies of music accessible for low vision with Microsoft PowerPoint. Also works with Microsoft Publisher and Google Slides

Implementing Shared Folders For Accessible Materials

Implementing Shared Folders For Accessible Materials

In order to streamline the digital workflow process, my second high school suggested implementing shared folders for accessible materials so I could get copies of digital assignments more easily. This worked well from the teacher perspective, since they could easily add documents to a folder…

How I Access PowerPoints with Microsoft Sway

How I Access PowerPoints with Microsoft Sway

As a student with low vision, I sometimes have trouble reading the PowerPoint slides that my instructors post on the course website or share with me so I can follow along with class. Things like small font sizes and multi-column layouts are great for presenting…

How I Use Microsoft Seeing AI With Low Vision

How I Use Microsoft Seeing AI With Low Vision

Living with low vision, I often use smart cameras and visual assistance tools to provide additional context or clarification about something I am looking at, especially if it is something ambiguous or hard to see. I started using the Microsoft Seeing AI app with low…

Recognizing Images With Seeing AI

Recognizing Images With Seeing AI

My first experiences with recognizing images with Seeing AI were not something related to my schoolwork or anything academic— it was actually for recognizing memes. One of my best friends loves to send me text posts, screenshots, and other images with lots of text in…

How I Use Microsoft OneNote With Low Vision

How I Use Microsoft OneNote With Low Vision

How to use OneNote, a free note taking software that allows users to create multimedia notebooks and use accessible materials

My Talk At I’m Determined Summit: Crash Course In Immersive Reader

My Talk At I’m Determined Summit: Crash Course In Immersive Reader

As part of my work as the Microsoft Content Specialist for AIM-VA and as a Microsoft Certified Educator, I had the opportunity to present a short talk as part of the AT Lab at the I’m Determined Summit 2020, a virtual conference for students with…

How I Organize Digital Files For My Classes

How I Organize Digital Files For My Classes

During my senior year of high school, I went from having a few virtual classes each year to a truly hybrid online class schedule, where 50% or more of my classes were online. This continued throughout undergrad in college, before I transitioned to having all…

How I Manage Dysgraphia In Online Classes

How I Manage Dysgraphia In Online Classes

While a lot of people associate dysgraphia with illegible or hard-to-read handwriting, dysgraphia can often extend to difficulties with typing and other types of written expression as well. Even though I type all of my notes and assignments for my online classes, my dysgraphia doesn’t…