Blindness & Visual Impairment
These posts are all about visual impairment, resulting challenges, and tools related to vision such as glasses and sunglasses.
Choosing a Tip for Your Mobility Cane
Choosing a tip for your mobility cane is a very personal task, but there are some guidelines that can help you make the decision. Here, I run through the various tips, their general uses, and some general guidelines to help you choose your next cane tip. Remember, I am absolutely no orientation & mobility expert. I am simple gathering all the information for you guys.
Why Are We Proud to be Disabled?
July is Disability Pride Month! To many this may seem like an odd statement, but disability pride is about much more than being proud to be a disabled person.
Live Streamed TableTop RPG with Blind Creators: Let’s Have Some Awareness & Some Fun
Join me in a live streamed TableTop RPG for charity and awareness beginning January 20th! Learn all about this event and how you can lend your support!
Gaming While Visually Impaired: The Barriers to Gaming
Gaming with a visual impairment comes with some unique barriers. Addressing some of these could richly improve the experience of gamers of all abilities.
How Do Blind & Visually Impaired People Watch TV?
People who are blind and visually impaired have been enjoying visual media for as long as the rest of the world. We just enjoy it in different ways. Read on to learn how.
Designing with Visual Impairment in Mind: The Basics
Learn all about the key design basics when creating a space for someone who is blind or visually impaired!
Alt Text: Making the Internet More Accessible
Alternative text helps to make images on social media and websites accessible to those who use a screenreader. Here's how you can add it to your own social media posts.
Moving: Planning, Packing, Organizing, & More
With my recent move, I have learned so much and experienced so many new things including mountains of stress. Here is an update of how that move has gone and what is to come in the future.
Choosing a White Cane: Style & Material
Today's mobility canes have so many options for materials, styles, tips, handles, and more. Choosing the one that is right for you is based on your preferences, experiences, and style. Here, I'll describe some of the different styles and materials of mobility cane that are available.
Feeling Like a Burden: Gaining Independence & Asking for Help
Feeling like a burden often goes hand in hand with having a disability, but you are not alone. There are steps we can take to ease that feeling and gain back some of our sense of independence as well.
