Hi! I'm brand new to this sub too & have a degenerative eye disease. Man, I get in slumps where I'm depressed about my vision, but here you are; Mother, blogger & college student? Wow go you! that's so impressive& awesome! I'm proud of you❤ also, super cool that you're able to use Reddit.

Hey, welcome to this sub and have fun, also enjoy the rest of reddit. there is so many other good subs out there on so many other topics just search what you’re interested in and there may just be a sub for you. I use bacon reader, but I have heard about that client. I signed up for it. Bacon reader works quite well though.

Welcome to our tiny lil corner of the internets!

So glad to find you, thanks for reaching out! My mom is legally blind from eye disease and can no longer do the things she used to love: gardening, knitting, cutting hair, reading, watching TV. She is 85, but very feisty and active. I feel terrible as she is bored to tears. She won’t go anywhere without my dad and hardly leaves the house. Not sure she would enjoy books on tape, she mostly read magazines. Any suggestions on how to help her get more enjoyment out of life?

Hi, thanks for sharing, I’m brand new to this sub and this situation, so help me if I am stating this incorrectly. My mother in law, 72, just lost her sight from spinal cancer. My wife is looking for a device or app or something that will help her speech to text, text to speech. Really, anything that helps this out. Thank you so much !

I’m not blind, but I develop websites for a living which I attempt to build in an accessible manner. This has been very important to me my entire career, however I took a job a few years ago that has caused me to get rusty on accessibility. I’ll come back to that.

My state is one of only a few that require its citizens using Medicaid to report work hours. If anyone wants Medicaid, they are forced to report a certain number of worked hours every month. This is forcing many individuals who can’t work off the system and removing their access to healthcare.

In order to report their work hours, and thus get healthcare, people are forced to use an antiquated website that, to me, seems like it would be completely inaccessible to a blind user. The only access I have to accessibility tools is the default VoiceOver assistants in macOS and Windows.

There is a law on the books in my state that mandates all government services be accessible to blind people. I believe the Medicaid work hour reporting website breaks this law and I hope to sue for an injunction and stop people from losing their healthcare.

This all leads up to my question: What software would you say do most blind people use to access the web and do you encounter websites inaccessible enough to be completely unusable for you?

Thank you for posting!

New to the sub also. I'm glad you were able to blog and pursue an education. Did someone help setup your blog initially? How do you write content for your blog?

Welcome to the party! :)

How old are you children/child? Were you born blind, or did you lose your vision later in life? Welcome to the sub, it’s great to have you here!

I'm relatively new here as well. Nice to meet you. What do you blog about?

Welcome to the sub. Hope you'l enjoy your stay here and meeet lots of new friends.