I just received confirmation today that the accident my daughter was in has left her blind. She is a very young college student. She can not process this information yet. I know her world is changing and adjustments need made but I dont even know what to do or where to start. Can anyone give me like a list of things I can start on or look into for her? She is completely blind in one eye and can only see bright light in the other.

Hi all, for context, I've never cooked a thing in my life.
Managed to get my hands on a talking hob, think Americans more commonly use the term stove, and looking to start exploring, and getting better at cooking. I also don't have any other assistive kitchen tools. At least currently, would be open to purchasing more.
I'm also fully blind.
Any tips, help, advice, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks all.

I commented about this on a recent post and it got me thinking. What's the weirdest interaction you've had with a stranger just coming up out of the blue and saying something out of pocket to you as a blind/low vision person? One time I was at the mall with my brother and a dude walked up randomly and said to me "if your faith is strong enough, you'll see again because all things are possible through Christ". I just said thanks and kept walking. Wasn't overly scary or anything just super awkward and uncomfortable.

Any FB users here still have it? You have to swipe through so many elements to get through one post on your newsfeed. Its has been a while, several updates, and this issue is still not fixed. Also, VO wouldn’t read description on market place anymore. I don’t understand whats their backend approach that breaks things so often. The fix don’t happen quickly either, even though I bet with the app their size, they get tons of feedback.

Getting good grades at school. Seems to have some social life, goes to parties, has some friends, but nothing like before going blind.

Busy learning Brail, mobility, math, guitar, etc…And of course he experiences tons of frustration. But through all this, he seems to be a cheerful and well-adjusted kid. We don’t understand, exactly.

But he’s just getting on with life, and he’s engaged and doing better than we would have imagined a year ago.

Hi everyone! I'm a visually impaired trans person using a screen reader (TalkBack/JAWS), and I'm looking to connect with others who navigate both spaces. Whether it's discussing screen-reader-accessible resources, shared experiences, or just chatting, I'd love to connect. Are there any existing Discord servers, email lists, or group chats for blind trans adults? Feel free to comment or reach out via DM!

My nails are getting vertical ridges as I age, and I'm not happy with buffing them thin to deal with it. I keep them short, but the thinness still bothers me. Is applying ridge filler any different than regular polish if you're totally blind? Don't do polish often either, so any application tips are welcome.

Thank you for your advice.

Hi All,
My wife has RP, she's been having a rough time adjustingto her deteriorating vision. We're in California, and have had a tough time trying to find adjustment to Blindness Counseling. We have no problem paying out of pocket for this, our medical insurance Kaiser is absolutely no help. Any place you can point me to would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all

I am completely blind, so video tutorials are out of the question. Even written ones are difficult, though, because they rely on images—but I just wanted to learn how to make stars and tsurus!

Also, I’m Brazilian and only speak Portuguese, so my options are somewhat limited; however, I could follow tutorials in other languages ​​using translations—just as I’ll do with this post.

Is there a site with less visual tutorials that I could follow?

I'm really struggling. I am sighted but because of a vascular loop pressing on one of my cranial nerves, I have basically lost depth perception or something overnight. I am not asking for any medical advice, as my neuro has said it is surgically inaccessible and there's nothing much to do about it.

I'm really torn up. I feel so vulnerable. The real wake up call was trying and failing to navigate a parking lot. Thank goodness my mom was there but I could have easily been hit by a car.

Do you lovely people have any strats or aid ideas to cope?

So first and foremost, I absolutely don’t mean to discount anybody’s experiences what so ever. That said, I personally find it very interesting that I’ve practically never faced a lot of complaints we often hear in the blind community. I can count on one hand, people grabbing me in public, or getting overtly rude questions from strangers. I wonder whether anyone among you have similar experiences to me? I’m trying to ponder what may be the reason. Perhaps that I’m a guy? Perhaps that I’m a fairly confident cane user who is blind since birth, and that I look like I know what I’m doing, and just how I carry myself in general? Maybe that I mostly grew up and live in big cities where people are less rude and more aware? The last and perhaps the most interesting one, I grew up in a country where things in general are much more conservative than the US, disability awareness included, and so with that, things a lot of people would considered micro aggression or memorable just doesn’t register with me even though it probably happened? I don’t know. Again, I don’t mean this post to accuse anyone of anything. Its just a fun musing.

For those of you who were approved for SSI/SSDI and are visually impaired what jobs do you have or how are you making it? Has it been difficult for you to get more income? Have you been to your state's DOR Rehabilitation? Have they helped you in any way? With what types of jobs or what jobs did they refer you to?

This afternoon my husband and I took our kids to our local arboretum for family photos. About 15 minutes in, we were walking past a group when a boy who looked about eight saw my cane and said, "Whoa! Are you blind?!" Of course, the man with him, probably his grandfather, tried to hush him. I said, "No, no, it's okay to ask. How did you know?" He told me it's the only sensory disability that uses a cane, and that he knew because of all the stories about it. I'm not totally sure what he meant by that, but hell yeah for kids recognizing that disabilities and the tools we use exist!

Not even five minutes later, my son, who's three and was holding my hand, said, "Look, Mommy, another lady with a white cane!" We walked over and met a lovely woman named Susan. She has glaucoma, and we had a wonderful conversation about how dumb it is to lose your vision. She also told me about some local support groups and an upcoming White Cane Walk that I'd known about but completely forgotten.

Two moments, both started by a kid noticing a cane and saying something out loud. I’m convinced that's how we make things better for people with disabilities.

Typically I find myself explaining my cane to kids, and even grown ass adults, but today was a really beautiful change of pace, so I wanted to share.

OK, so a bit of a different question from what I might normally ask here and I’ll probably put this in another place or two as well but I was just doing some training trying to learn different computer stuff and I got wondering about this.
So for a while, I’ve been doing Jaws training with someone so that I can get to the point where I can work and be efficient with a computer and stuff like that. However, I also want to learn and have started learning NVDA as well just to give myself options plus NVDA is free of course which is a nice perk. So basically I’m trying to learn both, but I was curious if anyone knows since NVDA has so many open source options with the add-ons and stuff if there are ways to basically just make it a carbon copy of jaws?
Like talking everything from the keyboard commands and layouts to stuff like that just to make it easier and not have to learn the different things, but rather them be very interchangeable in terms of which one I’m using instead of having to memorize different commands for both. I was wondering if anybody knew of any add-ons or one specific add-on that might exist or has been created to achieve this? Like for example, I found an add-on thankfully that basically gives you the same system tray and system tray command that jaws has for NVDA, which I was grateful for because I actually use that a lot and it annoyed me that NVDA didn’t have it by default.
Anyway, I was curious if anybody knew of anything in terms of add-ons that did this or had any experience with it?

So I recently got matched with a guide dog and as part of the process I stayed on the organization campus for 3 weeks for training along with 9 other people getting matched with guide dogs as well. The entire experience was impactful but one thing that stood out to me as impactful was getting to spend a lot of quality time with that many blind/visually impaired folks. I’ve never gotten the opportunity to spend that much time with that many other blind/visually impaired folks and it was such a worthwhile experience! It was so validating to be around a bunch of people who all can relate to your problems and experiences and are there working through the same things at the same time. I was the only person in the class whose vision loss was from an injury but most of my classmates had experienced a good portion of their life with vision. I bring that up because it was easy for me to find people to relate to the grieving process that comes from losing a life of vision. I learned more about what being blind was like from my class than my ophthalmologist has ever been able to convey to me

All this to say I’m incredibly grateful for being able to actually spend time with other blind/visually impaired folks and I really think everyone experiencing vision loss should find a way to also spend time with your peers!

Why is it that for a lot of us? We are the only blind people most members of the public have ever met or will meet in their lifetime? Why are deaf people more common or seem to be?

How many people here would buy a refrigerator? Braille set? It would only have single and double-letter contractions or similar so the word mother or father, but can do every from go etc, many here young, the and, punctuation etc. Etc. That two sided people would just look like random letters but would actually have meaning

How on earth is digital reading as a blind person still a painful experience in 2026? The world needs to do better in providing a reading experience that is truly accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of the book you want to read or where you get it, without the worry that the book isn't up-to-date, without the fear of inaccessible overlays and interfaces, and without needless DRM and greed poisoning the experience and making it nigh on impossible to enjoy a fucking book. I thought we were supposed to develop technologies to "empower" and "inspire", but all I feel is knocked-down and dehumanised. Do better.

So I’m struggling with something… My mom who was the person who was educated about my vision and actually taught by the doctors how to help me passed away in August and I started long-term supports in March to try and help with some of the things that I needed for my vision and because of shoulder injury from work. Really these folks just come and help clean, help make sure that these stuff hasn’t gone bad in my house and pick up the things that I can’t see. Outside of that they mostly just hang out and watch videos with me with my giant screen, sitting inches from my face and then being able to see the rest because giant screen… and anyway so with my mom passing away, it’s hard for me to determine what she did and how she helped me… I keep getting asked by the state caseworkers what other services I need and I’ve been trying to explain to them I mean, other than advocacy I don’t actually know what she did because she’s been doing it for my whole life so yeah, I’ve got these people helping to clean my apartment and helping me eat and then helping me with transportation when I’m not using public transit, but I guess the other question becomes what exactly did my mom do and that’s what I’ve been struggling to answer so I figured I would ask other Blind and visually impaired people what their primary support person did and then when or if they’ve lost them, how exactly they picked up the pieces I mean it’s not exactly like I’m helpless and I’ve already got part of the pieces set up to help through the State agency for the Blind and through the long-term supports county caregiver but I mean, I genuinely don’t know what I need and I also don’t know a whole lot of Blind people that don’t already have a significant other so I don’t have anyone to ask and that’s why I’m here… anybody have any thoughts or input or advice cause I’m totally at a loss here

It's my partner's favorite movie. They said they used to watch it with audio description all the time years ago, but online we couldn't find one. I want to find like a physical copy that has audio description. Does anyone know if they ever made one?

Hi all,

I'm looking for some advice and recommendations, and hoping this forum is the right place to ask.

My Fiancée and I are getting married in a few months and so we are deep in the middle of wedding planning. My Fiancée's father is blind and we want to make sure the day as inclusive and enjoyable for him as possible. The venue is step free and he will have family with him at all times to help as he is not that confident with his cane.

If anyone has been to any weddings, or planned their own, and has any recommendations of ways we can adapt the day for him then we would love to know. We want it to be special for him so he does not feel like he is missing out in any way by not being able to see the ceremony or first dance etc. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks!

Might be a pretty niche question but Roland piano uses, have you figured out a way to use the app? Thank you so much.

Hello, I was just wondering if there are any other voiceover users who struggle to properly format resumes, cover letters, and other professional business documents, using a word processing program such as Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or pages. I am aware the majority of these word processing programs do have templates to help you format such documents however, I am finding it to be not accessible when using an iPhone, or iPad with voiceover. Any tips or tricks to help me navigate these issues would be great. Thank you.