Visual Impairment & Accessibility

In this blog I talk a lot about living with a visual impairment and the importance of accessibility. The links below are for posts that I’ve written specifically about those subjects, but I also mention them regularly when writing about other topics, including my monthly Favourites posts about my adventures in London and elsewhere. And I’ve also raised awareness through media appearances, guest articles & interviews and other mentions.

If you want to explore even further still, there are also Youtube videos by myself and others, and I have pages of links to other blogs & podcasts, sight loss resources and disability resources that may be of interest. And feel free to contact me if you have any suggestions, questions, etc.

Contents

• Aniridia & Nystagmus
• Events & Campaigns
• Accessibility
• Assistive Technology
• Career
• Childhood & Family
• Communication
• Frustrations
• Health
• Q&A Tags
• Socialising
• Travel

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Aniridia & Nystagmus

• Living With Aniridia
• Living With Nystagmus
• How I See
• Q&A – My Aniridia & Nystagmus
• Nystagmus Tag
• What Is Normal? – Documentary video

Events & Campaigns

• Accessibility:
  • 2019 Disabled Access Day
  • 2019 Transport For London – Access All Areas
  • 2020 Global Accessibility Awareness Day
  • 2020 Accessible Advent
• Aniridia Day:
  • 2017 My Shining Success Story
  • 2018 My Aniridia Sight
• Aniridia Network:
  • Conferences – 2018, 2019 & 2020
  • Sight Village Meetups – 2016, 2017, 2019 & 2022
  • Rare Disease Day Meetups – 2023
  • Volunteer Award – 2022
• CXcon:
  • 2020 Accessibility Panel Video & Article
• Naidex:
  • 2018 & 2019
• Nystagmus Network:
  • Open Days – 2017 & 2018
  • 2018 Fundraising Abseil
  • 2020 Lockdown Quiz
  • 2020 Awareness Day
• Paralympics TV Coverage:
  • 2016 & 2020
• Rare Disease Day:
  • 2018 Photo Challenge Winner
• RNIB:
  • 2002 It’s A Knockout
  • 2017 How I See
  • 2018 Shades For Sight
  • 2020 World Upside Down
  • 2022 See The Person, Not The Sight Loss
• Sight Village:
  • 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 & 2022

Accessibility

• Audio Description Posts:
  • Audio Description & DVD Navigation
  • Audio Description On Youtube & Video Game Trailer
  • Audio Description Awareness Day
  • My Audio Described Theatre Visits & Museum Tours
• Audio Description Research & Consultation:
  • App – MovieReading
  • Film – How To Be Human
  • Study – Photo Slideshow
  • Study – VR Audio Description
• Digital Accessibility Posts:
  • Scope – The Big Business Of Digital Accessibility
  • Scope – Streaming Services Accessibility
  • Enabled Living – The Importance Of Image Descriptions (Alt Text)
• Digital Accessibility Research & Consultation:
  • Enabled Living – Website User Panel
  • Open Inclusion – Virtual Reality Testing
• Guide Dogs:
  • Guide Dogs
  • Guide Dog Access Denials
• Other:
  • Room 101 – My Visually Impaired Frustrations

Assistive Technology

• Aids & Gadgets:
  • My Visual Impairment Aids & Gadgets
  • Using A Cane
  • Ultrahaptics Testing & Haptics Experiment
  • Goodmans Talking Freeview Box
  • RNIB Penfriend
• iPhone Features:
  • My iPhone 13 First Impressions
  • My iPhone 13 Accessibility Features & Apps List
  • Disability Emojis
• Navigation & Exploration Apps: 
  • My Navigation & Travel Apps
  • Science Museum: Audio Eyes
  • Smartify
  • Walking Tours
• Audio Description Apps: 
  • Cinema Audio Description App Test
  • Sennheiser MobileConnect

Career

• 2004-2022 – Torbay Council Pre-Press Supervisor:
  • Getting My First Job
  • Journal Mentions 2004-2016
  • Homeworking
  • Redundancy
  • Leaving My First Job
• 2023 – Support Worker for journalist Emily Davison:
  • Blind Leading The Blind – My New Job

Childhood & Family

• Growing In Confidence
• Growing Up With Sight Loss
• Message To Parents Of Visually Impaired Children
• Ten Tors Hiking Event
• Snowdonia Field Trip
• My Parents At RNIB’s Manor House

Communication

• Disability Emojis
• Interacting With Disabled People
• The Language Of Visual Impairment
• No Offence

Health

• Disability:
  • PIP Benefit Claim & Decision
  • Sciatica Onset, Triggering & Treatment
  • The Impact Of Cancer
• Covid:
  • April 2020 – Grocery deliveries & support.
  • August & September 2020 – Test invitation & apps.
  • January, February, April & May 2021 – Earliest vaccinations (Mum & I).
  • January 2023 – Our first infection.

Q&A Tags

• Disability Misconceptions Tag
• Disabled Blogger Tag
• Nystagmus Tag
• Small Youtuber Tag
• VIP Tag
• VIP Daily Living Tag

Socialising

• Being Best Man & Giving A Speech
• Building My New Social Network
• Somebody To Love & Relationship Closure

Travel

• Discussion With A Taxi Driver
• Planning My Journeys In London
• Travelling Around London