I recently shared a post on LinkedIn and Facebook, listing some lesser-known features that are built in to my screen reader that I find very helpful when I’m working. I thought I’d take a deeper dive into the features I feel increase my productivity and help me get the most out of my technology. Whether…
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Breaking down instructions nonvisually with ADHD
I’ve been very open about the fact that I am both blind and have ADHD, and as a result I seem to be the go to person for non-visual ADHD strategies. I’ve been thinking of putting a post together for a long time where I share these strategies but the irony of having ADHD is…
Where are the Latin Books?
I’ve been exploring learning Latin. It’s going to be something I learn as part of my degree, but I wanted to get a head start as I know already that I’m likely to face some accessibility challenges once I reach that module. It is also several years away, and I am eager to learn and…
More fun with tactile graphics
Since I wrote the first post on trying to create tactile images a couple of days ago, I haven’t stopped. It’s as though now I’ve started to be able to connect with the world in a way which I haven’t had access to before, I can’t stop. Yes, I’ve been able to touch tactile images…
Pursuing the unseen: my quest to create tactile images
I fairly recently acquired a tactile image printer, sometimes known as a swell paper machine. Essentially, you print or draw onto a specific type of paper, then run it through a machine which heats it up. Darker lines will then be raised, creating a tactile image. Blind people experience so much image poverty. That is,…
The Politics of Braille
Braille, the tactile writing system used by blind people across the globe is a writing system which is easily identified as being linked with blind people and blindness. It may be the first thing, perhaps along with guide dogs, that people think of when asked what they associate with blindness. Yet the adoption of Braille…
Teachers Change Lives
I’m pretty critical of the education system. I’m pretty critical about everything actually, I’m just that kind of person. Despite this, I look back at my experiences in school very fondly. I am able to do this because I was fortunate enough to have so many wonderful teachers who shaped my life in different ways….
Stop Taking Our Canes Away
This blog post is essentially an expansion of a very long thread about cane travel which I wrote on Twitter. Feel free to check out and engage with the original thread, though much of the content is the same. Cane travel, or orientation and mobility instructors, are tasked with the job of teaching blind people…
Not Every Student Learns the Same way. We Need to Normalise this Difference
I often find myself saying “I failed my A-levels,” when what I actually mean is I got two c’s at a2 history and politics and a B in AS sociology. I also didn’t do well in English literature, psychology or economics. I took so many classes because I started year 12 with four subjects, English…