I am trying to find a VR headset for my mom to watch TV with. She didn’t play video games previously. She had a double retinal detachment, one eye lost sight entirely and the other has low vision. I am trying to keep costs low but it’s more about finding something easy for her to use and that we aren’t paying for excellent features she won’t use if possible. Thank you!

Hi guys I needhelp idk what i want whether it’s programming or even learning and language sometimes 3-D designing or even software engineering? IDK what to do or how to prioritise my goals

Hi everyone! Not sure if this is the right place for this but if not, perhaps someone here can point me in the right direction. My Auntie has a degenerative eye condition and now has very low vision. She recently had to replace her mobile phone and it's extremely difficult for her to navigate. I would love to find something more functional for her. Ideally relatively inexpensive, simple (no need for bells and whistles), with accessibility features to accommodate low vision. She also likes being able to send/receive short texts so something that would allow her to continue that would be great as well! Thanks in advance :)

Hi everyone!
I've recently started learning to use NVDA, and I often work with both English and Chinese texts. I'm wondering if NVDA has a feature to automatically switch languages based on the text being read.

I noticed there's an "Automatic Language Switching" option, but it doesn't seem to work as expected. From what I've read, it seems like you need to use a speech synthesizer that actually supports this feature.

My question is: instead of using a single voice that can handle both languages, is it possible to assign one voice for Chinese and another for English? Are there any add-ons or plugins that could help achieve this?

I'd really appreciate any tips or recommendations! Thanks in advance!

So i 18, recently got diagnosed with macular dystrophy which has led me into depression. I am completely clueless about how i will manage this and will i ever achieve something in life. I used to believe in myself, my abilities but now my future seems so blurry to me. I dont wanna end it all but i cant seem to continue to live this way.

Hi,

I hope this is okay to ask here. I'm looking for help finding an accessible peephole camera for my blind friend.

Preferably something that could read her descriptions of what it sees in a long hallway, either through her Alexa or her iPhone?

For context

She takes her dog out very early, and unfortunately as the weather has gotten colder, she's opened her door a few times to a homeless person either sleeping on it or across from it. That sounds like it would be really scary to experience, especially if they caught you unaware.

We are neighbours in an apartment. My door is at the end of the hallway, and I can see the entire hallway from my peephole, including my friend's door a few units away.

We've have apartment security, but it's a big building and they don't always catch everyone who sneaks in.

The peephole camera would go on my door since my apartment can see better

Any advice is sincerely appreciated. Thank you so much

I’m currently a jaws user. I already have a physical set up with an audio interface, but I need the final step which is software. I’ve seen reaper suggested frequently, but I found a few warnings about how they stopped updating Jaws support. Similar things about ProTools, but I don’t have a lot of money to shill out. Any other suggestions would be great.

My best friend (25) has been visually inspired since birth. She received her guide dog 6 years ago, and they’ve been inseparable since. Recently the dog was diagnosed with arthritis of the spine and is being withdrawn from service effective immediately. She has obviously taken this very hard, but I am unsure how to support her through this because it’s not something I’m familiar with. Can anyone who’s been in a similar position provide advice on what I can do? It’s a turbulent time for her, so I don’t want to ask her repeatedly what I can do to help: because I don’t think she knows either.

Hey everyone, so I am fully blind since birth and I wanna learn American Sign Language because in my university, there is a lot of deaf people, and I don't understand them and they don't understand me and I really wanna talk to them, is there any resources I can learn from? Thank you

am i the only one or does this happen to everybody? i'm in my fifth semester of college and the classes aren't too particularly hard it's just… i…am... so... done with college. literally one of my classes is online and is super easy, the other one attendance isn't required so it's basically a super easy online class as well, and all i have left is finals. which means i have quite literally two or three more projects in their entire entirety and then i'm finished. but i just literally don't care anymore. 

i'm working 20 hours, and then i'm doing 12 hours of class, but like i said two of those are online, and the other two in my opinion are super easy if you're intermediate production like i am. on top of all of this i have a visual impairment and i'm pretty sure my cataracts are getting worse so this is no doubt adding to the stress and effort i have to put in each and every day. I also have not gone home for longer then a few days in the last two years because I am sick of walking on egg shells over there with my Narcissistic stop mom.

anyways, i just want to stop everything. i want to quit my job i want to quit school and i have absolutely zero motivation to keep going. i have only about one or two friends up here at my college and i'm three hours from all of my family so quite literally i'm just working all the time and have zero fun because i have no friends to have fun with  

Hello, has anyone on here, or anyone you know who is blind taken the GMAT? If so, please message me. I am planning to take it soon and I wanted to hear about others experiences

My blindness is due to a traumatic head injury followed by an eye surgery that went horribly wrong. Previously I had a good career, and now I’m on SSDI, which doesn’t pay much, and I’ve not been able to work in 15-years.

A former boss of mine has been paying my rent in San Francisco, CA for the past 1-1/2 years. Something I have been extremely grateful for.

Yesterday my landlord informed me that I am short by $2,000 for this month’s rent. Meaning my (former) boss sent a check for only 1/3 of my rent due, and no explanation whatsoever. (He’s also now not returning my calls.)

What resources, if any, are available that can help me as I’m scrambling to pull together $2,000 overnight?

Happy Holidays!

I'm a junior in high school in the US and I am looking at applying to colleges in the fall next year. I am moderately visually impaired (blind one eye, moderate vision in other - don't qualify for license) and have significant nystagmus in dimly lit settings. I recently went on my first college tour and I was really shocked by how dim and dark some of the buildings were - which makes my nystagmus bad and hard for me to navigate. Here is my question - should I email Disability Offices at places I am going to visit BEFORE I go for my visit? I guess I'm not sure if I should wait until I'm either admitted or a student. It seems really hard to pick a place based on not knowing how they might be able to support you. Can anyone tell me about their experiences? I'm a really good student (all As) in hard classes and did really well on my SAT. I hate the idea that some places just aren't an option for me bc they won't/don't take care of VI students. Can people share their experiences applying to and attending competitive universities as a VI person?

I know that sometimes different places have different colour canes and just want to check what colour of cane is used

Being a blind girl myself, mobility was the first hurdle I overcame when I lost my vision.

Is it the same for everyone? Can you share a specific moment or experience where you felt most limited by your mobility, and how did you overcome it?

Video: The Gold Plaque... It finally came... and what a joke!

The thumbnail of this video shows this Korean YouTuber holding and comparing 2 gold play buttons and wondering if he got the wrong thing again.

The recent controversy regarding the shrinking of the play buttons have ended up shattering the expectations of a blind YouTuber from Korea. The YouTuber Oneshot Hansol(원샷한솔), the largest blind content creator and social activist in the country, has recently received the award for reaching 1 million subscribers. However, the plaque he got was even lighter than his 3 silver plaques. At first, he didn't believe it was his, and only after he used an OCR scanning app to read read the text that didn't even have braille at all, his suspicion turned into disappointment. For some blind people who can't distinguish the colors of the awards, the size and weight of the trophy matters more than anything. And as the plaque shrunk, the reward for his 5 year long YouTube grind was ruined.

Playlist: Braille Silver Button

This was not his first YouTube play button drama. It was actually his 4th. 4 years ago, Hansol got his 1st silver play button, which he specifically requested to have braille on it. It didn't have it, he wrote a complaint and got his 2nd plaque. However, the manufacturer made the mistake of omitting all the braille for upper case letters and turning the word "Presented" into "resented."

resented to

neshot aansol
or passing 100,000 subscribers

Hansol decided to recall the award. The trip to the designated international shipping company was not so smooth sailing, and he eventually got a 3rd plaque. This time, he requested the braille to be written in Korean. Here's basically what happened.

For passing 100,000 subscribers

Oneshot Hansol
Presented to

Korean and English have different grammar rules, which means that you can't just use Google Translate separately for each line. Well, I think that's basically what they did. The 1st and 3rd line of the Korean braille text was swapped. The sentence was technically correct, but only when read from bottom to top.

I'm not sure if Hansol will do the same thing for his gold plaque since the smaller plaques are now YouTube's intentional and official disappointments, but as an old friend and former personal translator for the channel, I just wanted to do the job I can and spread the words. I've known him personally since college and I know how hard his journey to the award was, so please YouTube, or SocietyAwards I guess, give him what he deserves.

I have a lot of friends who are long distance and my vision is not doing good. Discord won't work with talkback on my android device and I need to know how visually impaired people use discord.

Hi Is there a way to access the various microphone modes on the mac with voiceover? I have found the sound setting in control center and can see that the mic is in use and by which app, but I haven't been able to figure out how to change modes (voice isolation, standard, or wide spectrum). Any tips would be very appreciated. Thanks!

Hi everyone hope yall had a happy holiday! So a little bit of info about me im a (37m) who was diognosed with cone rod dystrophy 3 years ago and declared legally blind. I had to surrender my license and leave my career in engineering becouse I couldn't get cleared to be on-board ships anylonger.any longer. I get treatments for my condition that work really well and I can still do things like ride my road bike play videogames and cook as well as read most things tho I struggle with certain contrast and color combos of background and lettering. I see alot of responses on post that people have just lost faith in asking people for help with things like going to the gym or shopping or just general things. So I guess what I am asking is do you think I could make a suitable side gig out of helping people who see worse than myself? It could also get me in to my local blind community... I have kind of been lacking in friends in general and this could be a good way to meet some people... dunno just a thought..... What do you folks think?

For those who consume media with Audio Description, has there been anything you're curious about? I love giving people a peek behind the curtain! Here are some videos I've made so far, in a numbered list of titles followed by links:

1. What is Audio Description? (this one was moreso for me to send to my sighted friends who don't understand my job!) https://youtu.be/l_oyLBsSwyk?si=TV-hCBp_j9PpWTRl

2. Did you know that Audio Description has regional differences? https://youtu.be/DvD3ShYkQuo?si=9wYGAxv3a1CmZFz8

3. How do you Audio Describe sex scenes? https://youtu.be/phXQh6OOxrs?si=dZ7n7JX4CQcspEfI

In the future, I'm also planning to make videos on the following:

• The writing and QC process

• The narration process

• Video games

• Unique scenarios in character names

• Unique scenarios in subtitles

What else would you find interesting?

For context I'm 23 and I've been playing guitar on and off for years. Recently I've decided that I want to take doing music more seriously and want to start performing and making music. My only gripe with this though is that lessons are expensive and I feel like a have a lot to learn with no real sense of direction of where to learn.

While I try to figure out where to take music lessons I've been messing around with Ableton but even that feels like a challenge to navigate, especially when it comes to the piano roll.

Overall I really want to make music, I feel like I have a lot to say and could be a good outlet for me, but I just feel a little overwhelmed with the learning process with my impaired vision making it worse.

Thanks for any advice.

I an UK based and i came across a post from a US user Talking about how there partner could supplement there income due to not getting enough

So i ended up doing my research and came across the US benefits for those with disabilities

For example I came across the SSI and SSID and well compared it too the two main benefits the UK has PIP and UC LWCA and was generally shocked that the SSID is only given to those who have previously worked before ( which doesn’t apply to everyone) to actually get

And after doing my research i genuinely feel like i would definitely struggle more in the US

( this is by all means not a competition or anything was generally shocked to see the difference)

I really want to decorate my cane but im not to sure how. I feel like tinsel would drive me mad and while i would love some fairy lights i dont quite know how it would work out. I DO NOT want to make my cane look like a candy cane as i dont want to potentially cause a problem as it coukd be mistaken for a deafBlind cane .

Hello!

Four months ago I met someone amazing who is in the process of going blind. He has limited sight currently but eventually it is likely he will lose that too. He lives in England and I reside in the USA.

Wondering some long distance things I can offer to do with him so we can spend time together. So far I thought of reading to him or listening to audio books together.

We have the most amazing conversations but he often mentions he wishes he could do more with me. I want to show him there are plenty of things we can do that work around his disability.

Thank you

I work in tech and frequently share my screen to customers to show them the product I sell. I do not use Voiceover while screensharing because I find it very difficult. The biggest reason why I do not use Voiceover while on a video call is because Voiceover drowns out the speech of anyone else on the call. It will always talk over them. I cannot keep asking customers to repeat themselves

Thus, I end up sharing my screen with no screenreader assistance. With my current state of vision, I can get through a rough overview of a product this way, but it means I basically cannot go off script at all and have to essentially memorize exactly where to click. If a customer has questions about something on the screen, I cannot assist.

I have a dream of a solution involving split-track headphones. I imagine it would work like this:

• One set of headphones connected to one computer
• I somehow program the headphones and/or the computer to only share the voiceover through one earbud, and all other sound comes through the other earbud
• Ideally, I would also be able to individually control volume so that I can have the voiceover on super low volume and the call/other audio on high volume

I've tried to find information on how I could accomplish this, but no luck. any ideas?

Thanks!

Specs:

• I use MacBook Pro 2017
• My video conferencing app is mostly Google

I'm blind in my right and legally blind in my left and noticed I'm having a bit of trouble navigating my college's online website. It's nothing other than their colors aren't on a black or dark background and I struggle to read the letters without my vision being well...my vision. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to navigate the website? maybe theres a dark mode I didn't know about on the website but I'd figured I'd ask here first

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone else has experience using CAD (3D modelling software) or 3D printers and how they manage it? I’m 18 and recently returned to 3D printing however my eye condition is progressive and I don’t know how much longer I’d be able to keep doing it. Any tips are greatly appreciated thanks!