Hi everyone. My dad has a degenerative eye disease, he is pretty much fully blind now. He used to be really active (ran half marathons, went to the gym, played sports with me). Now, he is pretty isolated. He doesn’t go out much and his health is definitely suffering. I want him to be my active dad again, but I’m not sure how to help. He has a Peloton which has been great for him, I just wish there was some gym or activity he could join that was accessible for people like him. I’m away at college the majority of the time and am unable to be a reliable transporter, my mom is always running around with my nephew. Just looking for any and all advice around new hobbies and ways for him to stay active. Specifically maybe something with running- he used to really enjoy that. Thank you!

I recently learned my grandmother is very low vision and she has Charles Bonnet syndrome. She is crazy high functioning in every way apart from eye sight.

I am getting ready to send her a care package and am wondering what a good, full magnifying glass for reading would be. She needs at LEAST 12x and wants a full page magnifying so she doesn’t get lost reading the lines. Anyone have a good brand or product they would recommend?

Also, is there a preferred app for audio books? She has a kindle currently but is transitioning to more audio.

I am open to other suggestions for someone who is learning to live with very limited eyesight. I am thinking about getting her magnifying glasses for each room so she has one handy, some more of those dot things, some velcro commando strips that help attach objects to things.

She can still do 300 piece puzzles, goes for walks around her apt complex, has an app on her phone that helps to magnify things while shopping. She has someone who has come to her house to place high vis things around her house. I think she also has Alexa.

Anyways, I really appreciate any insight into how I can support her from afar!

How do I avoid this? I work in food service and my co workers are patient about this but its scary on my end to all the sudden almost or do run into someone so i bet its scary for them too.

I dont have periferal vision and depth peerseption (which iirc includeds rtelling how close or far away things are) isnt very good or reliable i have vision in both eyes but can only see out of one at a time (i take turns so they dont get tired and so i dont lose vision in either one) ivehad the same eyesight my whole life and havent noticed this as a big issue till now like always ran into objects but not very offtine people

Anyone else in a similar situation? Is there anything I can do? I dont want avoiding acsidents to be 100% my coworkers responceability.

I’m visually impaired and I play piano. So far the way I play pieces are by my piano teacher telling me the notes/fingering, but thinking about the future I’m not always going to have someone with me to read the notes for me. What are some ways you guys read notes?

I don't get how people read so fast... I can read only 30 minutes per minute on average grade one. I can read grade 2 but even that is not lightning fast. So any typs, guys? I believe that I press too strong on the paper for some reason and that slows me down in the recognition of the dots. I also use only the index fingers.

Hello! I am wondering if someone has a recommendation for a digital closet I can use that SUPPORTS my iphone’s accessibility settings. Some apps will bugged out and I don’t want to waste money to find out the app isn’t useable.

I want to be able to: - upload pictures of clothing items —- either from camera roll or online - Self categorize - removes background automatically - make outfit suggestions

I don’t use voice over. Thanks!

My 5 month old son was born with a genetic mutation causing loss of sight. Been a hard couple of months since learning this. It his us like a ton of bricks.

Looking for the positives/benefits associated with blindness. As an example, personally, with less hearing in one ear, I like to fall asleep with my "good ear" in the pillow to drown out noise. Thank you all in advance!

Has anyone done accessibility testing at Fable? I’m currently in college and have a part time job but I am looking to make more money on the side. If any of you have worked for them, how hard was it to get in?

TLDR: Has anyone used translator / TTS pens and would like to share a review or recommendations?

Hello! I've been looking at reading assistance devices because I find using my phone for everything to be really ungainly (often trying to do other things on it while also needing to read physical text) and I recently found that there are comparatively cheap handheld devices out there that will read text aloud. They're advertised as being for translation or dyslexia, but I don't see (ha) why they couldn't be useful for vision loss as well. The prices in CAD seem to vary a lot, between around $100 to upwards of $500, and I'm not sure what kind of a quality difference to expect between price points; as someone who hasn't used one, they look pretty similar in terms of battery life and options, especially when I plan on using it for the text to speech function and not translation. Has anyone else tried these (or multiple of them) and would like to share their experiences? I'd really like to be able to enjoy all of my paper books again :'D

Thank you so much!

Hi guys

I have a cousin who is blind and is in South Africa.

Unfortunately there are not many resources for blind people in South Africa and when you do get in touch with any of the blind associations there they never really follow through.

I’m starting off small but I’d like to find out if anyone can recommend any online support groups that blind people can join? I feel my cousin gets really lonely and really needs a community to be part of where he can talk and socialize with others.

If anyone has any recommendations it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much! Have a lovely day

Hi everyone! My mom is extremely visually impaired and has not traveled alone since she was a teen, when her starguards started to progress. It is her 60th birthday this year and I really want to find a way to take her on a trip. She lives in florida, I live in california. She'll be in CA with me in june and i'm thinking we could both go spend a few days in mexico together for her birthday, but i'm not sure the best way to get her back to florida. Does anyone have experience with airport/travel support as a blind person? She is not too confident, doesn't walk with a cane or anything and would need help the entire time until she is picked up at baggage claim by my dad. If airport support for the disabled isn't great, I would probably just fly back to florida with her. Any advice would be appreciated!

PS She is dying to travel and has expressed many times that she wants to go to mexico and many other places.

I guess I’m looking for validation or to know if I’m overreacting. Yesterday during a family Christmas event, a family member wanted me to join a group picture. This family member then clapped at me and kept repeating a version of come here. I feel like it was completely demeaning. I know it wasn’t done maliciously but lately I have been feeling more sensitive about feeling like my blindness is the butt of jokes. There definitely needs to be a follow up conversation, I just don’t know if I’m completely overreacting.

I am visiting family in another state for the holidays. While leaving the hotel this morning, I somehow walked into a little wooden snowman decoration in the lobby and it fell over and broke. I couldn't stand it back up so I just rested it against the wall and apologized to the desk staff who saw me do it. Got in the car and just cried while my husband hugged me.

I know this is part of the process, I have RP. My vision isn't even that bad, it just happened to be in my blind spot from the moment I turned the corner til I made contact with it. I just hate it so much. I know this is going to happen many, many more times but it's usually with wet floor signs. The decoration couldn't have been more than 20 bucks, but still. It's embarrassing, frustrating, and I hate it so much.

I am encountering an issue with reddit as of recently and I don't know what to do about it.

I posted a little about it in r/accessibility last month but I am having a similar issue again.

Today I found this

https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/1hmuv74/help_setting_up_voice_controlled_tv_remote_app/

It appears to me as a text subject line, only.

If I open the link in a new window, I am taken away from old reddit to the new-new reddit where I cannot use Google Reading Mode to read me the text and I cannot easily make the text comfortably readable.

I use Android (Samsung) Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, Brave browser and old.reddit.com

Talkback is not an option for me.

I keep some part of the world at-bay to avoid being left hanging; situationally vulnerable or powerless due to blindness. Too many people have no quams about taking advantage. Went to a fast-food place with a neighbor once. We each got something; I also got cookies. She deliberately kept the cookies out of my reach, not telling me where they were, so I'd not immediately eat them before she could have one. They were a dollar and she could have easily gotten her own but this other way did something for her I guess.

During the pandemic when there was the TP shortage, I was at a store with an acquaintance. We came on a good deal for this pack I needed and was sure would Last. All of a sudden, a lady came up. There was a brief exchange between her and the acquaintance. I knew it had to do with Tp but didn't realize until later that Acquaintance had given the lady the TP; My TP which was, apparently, the only one left. I'd have fought for it had I known but how could I? She said the lady looked bereft. Touche. We'd gotten there first and though that seems trite now, those were the ropes at the time.

I was outside a grocery store in the heat once waiting for a bus and a churchy type went on rather. I declined her offers to pray for me and that. She ignored me and even started singing. I couldn't just walk away and contemplated Forcing the issue. These are all times I felt my autonomy as an individual was hampered or overshadowed by my disability; expressly because of other people. It's something I truly can't stand. I just hadn't realized the extent to which it's impacted my daily experience of life. This is not a rant or even an attempt at seeking advice;it's me reflecting. Figured some here could relate.

I'm a braille and screen reader user, and I'm really into task management, project planning Etc. I know there are a lot of planners out there especially as the new year approaches and people get into resolution mode. By planner, I mean the ones that have templates for monthly, weekly, Etc. pages, rather than just a calendar with timeslots. A lot of them are workbook style, with sections for tracking progress toward goals, questions to ask yourself as you plan out the month or quarter, things like that. Has anyone found, used or made non-print versions of planners like these? If so, how did it go and do you have any recommendations? Thanks so much everyone, and happy holidays!

Hey everyone, I am a blind person and I have just recently become interested in 3-D printing. I created a Reddit community so those of us who are blind and using this and similar technologies can share information. If you’re interested or if you yourself are creating with a 3-D printer, I’d love for you to come join! The link is at the end of this post. Thanks! By the way, my name is Rusty.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlindMakers/s/5M5qAFlFLk

Is anyone able to explain, or does anyone know of accessible instructions that I can look up for my new Aeropress please? I asked for and was given one for Christmas, but how to use it is not as obvious as I had hoped and I really want to crack on with it as I was also given some lovely new types of coffee to go with it.

So before updating to iOS 18, I always used the 400 mb siri voice because 60 MB voice sounded horrible, but now it's no longer available. So I listen to the 60 MB version and it wasn't that bad, but at some point the quality suddenly became worse. When I turn it off and on the quality is better for a while, but then it gets worse again. Anyone know what to do?

Hi guys,

I'm a big fan of the Ace Attorney franchise, so much so that I decided I wanted to play the games (despite them being visual novels). They have no blind a11y features built in, however the text is so clean that optical character recognition tends to capture it almost perfectly. Use NVDA with Windows OCR set to periodically refresh, and the reading experience isn't too bad (considering we've gone from a totally unplayable game). Even so, there are cases where OCR isn't as successful (usually because of a decorative style of font). In particular, some of the later games in the series are much harder to play because of the fonts used. So I stumbled upon another potential solution: text hooking. I found out there were tools that could hook into these games and grab the raw text strings. It's also a common feature of text hookers to automatically copy any extracted text to the clipboard, which (thanks to an NVDA add-on) will thus automatically read (OCR error-free). I've been trying a couple of hookers for a few hours now (namely Textractor and Luna Translator) however I still can't seem to get them to hook into Ace Attorney properly. If anyone has experience using text hookers to play visual novels or interactive fiction, your help here would be very much appreciated.

Context: I first posed the question of whether we could play Ace Attorney in this forum post.

https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/55261/ace-attorney-as-a-blind-person/

Does anyone else enjoy Lego sets? I love the art ones as the end result is tactile like the world map. Only issue is how tricky it can be to identify a piece and locate where to put it!

I got my dad headphones that can plug into his iPhone for Christmas. As it turns out they don’t have a microphone so he can’t control the music or siri etc. Do any of you have over the ear headphones that work for your iPhone that also let you use the mic?

I have seen a Video where someone used Chat GPT and asked What was in front of him. Does that work With Google Gemini as well?