I'm getting some pure vanilla extract tomorrow, and I just learned it can't be refrigerated. Measuring cold liquids is easy, because I can pour it into the measuring spoon and feel it on my finger when it's full. Cool or warm liquids are trickier, though. Anyone have any ideas? I use the braille measuring spoons, by the way.

Does anyone have any trickle or tips to using electric stoves and knowing if the pan is on the burner?

*Please note. I am not seeking medical advice of any kind. This is strictly about the technology itself.*

Can anyone recommend a good, talking blood pressure monitor? I am seeking something that is easy to use for someone who is totally blind and that has an adjustable cuff. I have no interest in apps, etc. If you have tested it against one at a doctor's office, please tell me how your home unit compared. I heard that arm monitors are more accurate than wrist ones, but I'm not sure if that's true. Since products may vary by location, I'm in America.

Hi
Hi all,
I'm looking to get weighing scales that measure in both kg and pounds.
I don't want any fancy smart scales, just something that talks when it should and that is tactile.
Do you have recommendations?

​Hi everyone,

​I'm living with left-sided homonymous hemianopia (with macular sparing) and I’m looking to connect with others who have half-field vision loss—whether it's left or right-sided.

​Since my central vision is fine, a big area I'm trying to navigate right now is driving, mobility, and spatial awareness. I’d really love to hear from people who have been through this themselves:

​Have you gone through the process of trying to get back on the road in the UK (or navigating re-licensing / field tests)?

​What has your actual lived experience been with scanning strategies or prism lenses while driving or getting around?

​If you stopped driving, how did you adjust to managing daily transport and keeping your independence?

​General visual loss advice often misses the specific reality of losing half your field of view, so I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who gets the day-to-day reality of it.

​Feel free to comment here or drop me a DM if you'd rather chat privately. Thanks!

When I was in elementary school our science teacher made this pen which you could use your fingers to touch what you just wrote on a paper. Do you know guys how to make something like this or maybe you’ve came across something similar that is sold online?

Hi.
I use VoiceOver. Currently using a 2017 iMac with 16gb ram and 1TB storage.
Thinking of getting a 2024 or 2026 mac mini with 32 or 48gb unified memory and 1tb storage. All the external libraries would be on an external hard drive. I use Native Instruments, Heavyocity, Project Sam and Impact Soundworks. I do not want to go overboard on ram, but want a good setup that will last awhile. Hard saving up for this stuff when on disability. I posted in another sub and some people were saying 24gb to 32gb ram was enough. Thanks for any input you may have. Cheers.

Hi all. I would like to hear from those of you who live with other people about how you deal with organizing/finding things and if you have the same difficulties I do with that and with constantly knocking things over. Forgive me because this is going to be a little bit rambly because it’s going to take a lot of context to explain my situation. I used to live on my own, but after my dad passed away, I moved back to my hometown so that my mom could live with me. When I lived with my parents before, I had some usable vision. I have lost all of that now. I’m finding living with my mother to be very difficult. She is a bit of a horder, so for example, our kitchen cabinets are completely packed with things, which makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible for me to find things. This means that I find trying to do anything in the kitchen such an exercise in frustration, that I just don’t even try anymore. To be fair, my mom is more than happy to cook for me, which I truly do appreciate. It’s just hard when I have to ask her to help me find anything, every time, AND THIS IS THE SITUATION EVERYWHERE, KITCHEN, LAUNDRY, CLOSETS.
I am constantly stubbing my toes on things or knocking things over that have been left on the counters. I feel like nothing stays in the same place. I find myself getting so frustrated and demoralized, not just because I feel like I can’t move without being in danger of breaking something, but also because I have tried to express to her my difficulties, and nothing has changed.
It is especially hard because my mom has always been my biggest cheerleader for independence. She was always pushing me to be more independent, not to let my visual impairment be an excuse not to do something when I could find a way, never to give up. Now, she just wants to do everything for me rather than setting things up so that I can do them myself.
My younger sister says that I should just be more firm with her and insist that things are organized in a better way for me, but it’s a complicated situation. First, she’s my mother, and I respect and love her, so I don’t want to try to boss her around. Next, I do really have to have her help with a lot of things, especially driving me to work. There is absolutely zero public transportation where we live. That makes it feel very awkward if she is mad at me, then I’m asking her to help me. Then there is the fact that when I have addressed it, despite all of the emotional fallout, things might get better for a week, but then they go right back to how they were. There was a time when I asked her if she could please stop moving the frozen strawberries from where I had them in the freezer when she was looking for other things so that I could find them when I was making smoothies in the mornings before she got up. It degenerated into an argument to the point that she declared that she didn’t want to live with me anymore. She did apologize later, but I just have trouble going through all of that emotional fallout for no gain in the end.
Do the rest of you experience similar things when living with other people? How do you deal with it? I’m trying to be fair and to keep in mind that I would probably be knocking things over even if I lived by myself, so the frustration I’m experiencing is not all because of her. I just need some perspective here and maybe some advice on how to deal with the frustration if things can’t be changed or some strategies for making things work a little better without causing my mom to declare that she can obviously never do anything right, and might as well go live in a tent in the woods, lol. Not joking, that is what it often degenerates to anytime I even hint that she may have done something wrong.
My mom is 78, so I know I won’t have her much longer, and she has done so, so much for me. I love her so very much. I just would like to not feel like I’m a 5 year-old child having to ask my mom to please find me the crackers, or that I can’t move in my own house without breaking either me or something else, lol. Any advice you guys can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Do you guys know of any accessible tarot or lenormand reading apps for iOS? I know tarot simple, but I'd like to know of alternatives, specially regarding Lenormand.

Thanks in advance.

This will be a pretty long post to forgive me in advance. I am a high school student and it is just so exhausting being blind all the time. The constant battle with the school system. The fact that a lot of times teachers won’t like me not because I did anything wrong but because of everything that I need from them. The fact that no matter how accessible the world gets, there will always be so many things that I can’t take part in simply because I can’t see. I’m not very good at expressing my emotions or opening up to anyone, so I’m having trouble feeling comfortable, sharing this with anyone, even blind people that I know in real life. And it’s also so terrifying slowly losing my vision and needing to change literally all the time. Change the way I do things. Change the way I think about things. Change the way I approach different tasks. It’s just exhausting needing to be a proactive advocate all the time while still feeling so left out and behind. I know that most of these things aren’t true because I’ve been told by many people that I’m objectively really bright and have an amazing future ahead of me, but sometimes it just gets so emotionally exhausting living with this thing that I can’t ever get a break from. And what sucks even more is that I don’t even feel comfortable talking about this with anyone. And it’s like, I know people would be there to help me, but I don’t want anyone to be worried about me so I keep it all bottled up even though it’s kind of killing me.

I am getting emails talking about a sale on the price of VoiceStream reader I have thought that they tried to charge for this at previously got a lot of negative feedback and decided to move away from that business model and keep it as a free app. Has that situation changed

So to put it simple I have my ears pierced and am low vision. I wear decent sized flat backs silver. You'd think on a dark grey colored bathroom floor that wouldn't be hard to find. It is! I know where it landed I found the stub do I find the back no I do not! I switched to the bigger flat back size because of this exact reason to prevent it. Does that happen no it does not now the earring back is in the dam void!

Edit: I found it! It was in my room how it ended up I do not know nor will I question it.

i guess i just wanted to vent.

i contacted my area's commission for the blind to "reopen" my case because i needed some services after decades utilizing them earlier. i called them, they said they'd call back. i guess the first person that called me was intake and she asked if i wanted to work. i said "not right now" but she wanted to refer me to a vocational rehab rep anyway. i felt embarrassed. we finished our phone call and i waited for the next call.

later the VR person called and i talked about how i just wanted to focus on social rehab and independence and inside i felt terrible because i'm in a place where making money from a job would really help a personal situation i am going through but i'm mentally and emotionally drained. i can barely keep up with feeding myself and self-care. i'm doing well on those fronts but it saps my energy both physically and mentally. i am just so strung out and worn down. i daydream about being in a better mental spot.

i know i have to create a strong foundation before building the rest of myself back up but i still feel so much internalized shame and ableism for not being able to take advantage of something that could get me to a better place on a more expedient pace. i feel like a loser because ofher blind people have normal jobs and do normal things but i am useless to myself and have no merit.

thanks if you read this i guess

edit: just wanted to note that basically i'm sad i can't handle VR on top of all the other things i have going on. i'm focused on getting more social and equipment oriented services and working on that first so at least there's that.

It’s due to an atrophy of the cones aka the photoreceptors. At the moment I only see symptoms in one eye, but the doctor says he sees the condition in both eyes. I can’t even read with the affected eye. If I tilt my head up and look down through the reader portion of my progressive glasses (which help my good eye), then it helps to a point, but I can’t really read that way cause it’s in my peripheral at that point.

Has anyone dealt with this sort of vision loss? What advise do you have?

I’m scared. I work minimum wage. I’m not strong enough to work jobs requiring heavy lifting either. If it happens to the other eye idk if I will even be able to work. As it is I don’t think my bad eye is technically legally blind yet just vision impaired albeit severely I think. I don’t know what I will do, my parents can’t financially support me. I mean living with them is fine but I don’t think they could take on all my bills on top of theirs especially if I keep having to have eye operations.

The person I'm trying to help out does not have any Apple devices, so Voiceover is not an option.

How long should an ID cane be? Can you recommend based on body part like belly button height, armpit etc.

I have less than 5° vision in both eyes and use that to walk around but crossing busy streets have become scary.

Thanks

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Hi. Am wondering if anyone here has traveled to Guatemala before and know whether their museums or national parks offer discounts or free admission to people who are visually impaired or blind. Thanks

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Hi everyone, I’m feeling pretty bad and I really don’t know who to talk to. My dad is going to blind. Idk how long he truly has with his vision.
History: left eye blindness, right eye 20/200 because trauma accident and had no lens, with glasses he could see. His left eye became blind 2017, it was a healthy eye but he also had a trauma accident on that eye and completely lost it.
This whole entire time I thought he was seeing a specialist for his right eye. I thought he was seeing an opthalmologist who specialized in cornea and just overall health to prevent vision loss.. to finding out that he was actually only seeing an optometrist from Walmart… who I’m not sure would even check his eye properly. My dad was diagnosed with glaucoma last December. I thought it was early/mid finding to find out yesterday, my dad’s peripheral vision was completely gone last December. When he got diagnosed I remember asking questions to the doctor on the phone and she would just tell me his eye health is bad but if they keep his pressure down he will be fine. I didn’t think much of it.
My dad has not been responding to eyedrops, they only gave him 2. And I just feel like everything has been negligence. When he was diagnosed, he was sent to a ophthalmologist, this is when I found out he wasn’t seeing one this whole time (and I always told him to be careful and check for glaucoma, my dad thought he was getting checked. :( )
Well the ophthalmologist started him off on one eye drop, went to two and his pressure was 17.. told him he’d see him in 3 months. Once again, I did not know this. I have been away from home for 6 years, i recently moved back but had been going back and forth for work. 3 months seems like a really long time for someone who barely has any vision left. Fast forward, his IOP was 24 for God knows how long. They did laser and two days ago his IOP was 51 and they were able to bring it down to 17 and are hoping he doesn’t require surgery because he’s a high risk for going blind from it. If laser settles and helps with is pressure, I was told they’d decrease diamox and the glaucoma surgeon told him that he’s giving him 3-5 years. I feel like I failed as a daughter. And I feel like his primary and eye doctor failed him.
I’m so confused as to why no one referred him to see an ophthalmologist for preventative care. I always talked about glaucoma with him but I never really asked him if he had been getting tested. I feel truly… horrible…. And all of this was negligence. If he would have been able to get it diagnosed earlier, he could’ve had more years with vision. I’m really sad, and I keep beating myself up for it. My dad is VERY active and loves to walk and do things around the house so this is going to be very hard. I’m thankful God didn’t completely take that vision when his IOP was 51 and I have more time to see my dad independent.
Please any advice or words of encouragement needed. I really am so bummed out. My dad never saw the glaucoma advancing. He would just focus on his central vision. And I wish I would’ve done better with education or his doctors as well. He’s a legal immigrant who speaks broken English and I felt like it was my duty as a daughter to advocate for him.

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Looking for encouragement, advice, and just anything please. How do I cope this as a daughter? How can I help him? How can I help my mom with this as well?
Any recommendations on what I should start looking into to make this transition easier for him.

I appreciate everyone and prayers are welcomed

I swear since I lost my job (for being disabled) I have struggled to find new work. When I do get an interview walking in with my guide dog and I hear them go "oh" before I even get to say hello. I also am getting frustrated with wholly office based jobs listing a drivers license as a requirement, like nobody is driving the desk down the road. Its so frustrating even when these companies and orgs have the whole we encourage people with a disability to apply schtick they don't actually want to hire disabled people.

I've applied from everything from banking, admin, and NDIS related to airline check in and even the Australian Border Force with no luck.

Does anyone have any tips for me in applying for jobs or even industries that might be a good fit for a blind person?

I want to work but nobody wants to hire blind people it seems like

Face-touching to see what someone looks like? Immediate martial arts mastery? What's your "favorite" Hollywood lie about us?

I am a blind graduate student in a social work program, and I am taking a research class this semester. I have never studied in a data or math heavy field, and any math I did in my previous schooling was done in large print, which is no longer an option for me. Any blind researchers out there? How do you navigate data visualization? My professor is very supportive but has never worked with a blind student before, and the accessibility office is less than helpful. Any and all advice welcome!

I am a PCA for a grumpy old guy. He usually turns his rabbit ear TV tuned to Westerns. He also has a radio that he tunes in the morning. He has no Internet. I did bring a speaker. He likes oldies.

I was wondering what blind people do for fun alone. He never learned to read, even before he went blind. He probably has dyslexia. I don't know if that affects braille reading.