Tips for Getting Clients on Board with Using WayTags
Good organization and labeling is an important skill for anyone with sight loss, since identifying an item is a big part of making it accessible. …
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Preserving Family Recipes and Traditions with WayTags
As the holiday season approaches, you may dust off your grandmother’s china or reminisce about family stories. Whether your memories involve family-led activities such as …
How to be a Good Host for a Dinner Guest with Vision Loss
More and more people over age 45 have significant vision loss. That means there’s a good chance someone at your holiday gathering may have deteriorating eyesight that can’t be improved by wearing glasses.
It can be difficult to know what someone can see and where that person may struggle in a new location. If you’re hosting someone with vision loss, there are easy and subtle things you can do to provide a low-vision-friendly holiday gathering. As a host, don’t put extra focus on the person with vision loss. Keep all table settings uniform, so that the person with vision loss is not singled out.
Here are five easy tips for being a good host when you have a guest with vision loss.
Five Tips for Being More Inclusive Online
Lately, we’ve been sharing some of our favorite accessibility tips on Facebook and Twitter. We’ve had such a positive response that we decided to gather up our favorite tips in one easy-to-find blog post!
The internet can be a powerful accessibility tool. Yet, we know too well that it can also leave out people with low or no vision. Once we started sharing tips for inclusivity on social media, our fantastic community chimed in with tips of their own! Here is a roundup of five of our favorite online accessibility tips.
Three Things I’ve Learned About Blindness
Since I started working with Blind InSites™, I’ve learned a lot about what people who are blind have to put up with from us sighted …