Websites and Apps

Learn about low vision and assistive technology with the help of free resources and activity ideas, curated by an assistive technology specialist with low vision

Learn how to create an informal personal accessibility checklist for low vision and determine if an app or website is accessible for a specific student

A list of accessibility strategies for accessing the news with assistive technology for individuals with visual impairments, inclusive of low vision/blind/CVI

Practical and positive creative prank ideas for introducing low vision assistive technology concepts with humor on April Fool’s Day and beyond

Make school spirit accessible to all! Learn how to create audio description for college fight song and gameday cheers for low vision and blind students

Mostly free resources and strategies for implementing Universal Design for Learning/UDL for data science and statistics lessons, curated for EDAT 524.

Creating audio narrated images for low vision students is great for Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) lessons! Here is a mix of paid/free apps for annotating and adding narration to images

Tips for going to restaurants with low vision, including finding accessible menus, free apps for visual impairment accessibility, and using assistive technology independently

A list of OCR scanner apps for low vision students, useful for extracting text that can be read out loud with text-to-speech or displayed in large print.

How I use alternative formats menus like YuJa Panorama and Anthology Ally with low vision for accessing content in my online and hybrid college classes

(Mostly) free assistive technology for writing and audio-based resources that incorporate dictation and read aloud for auditory access

A list of statistics apps for low vision access that I have used in my high school, college, and graduate statistics classes as a visually impaired student