Maybe having the players call out their roll numbers instead of just failure and success so they get to enjoy the near misses and barely successes just like anyone seeing the rolls gets to. There may be a bot that does that.

Generally, I'd say to just ask your player. I've been known to zone out during 5 minute long descriptions of the area, and I'll ask clarifying questions if I need to. I don't need to know that there's cobwebs in the corner of a house if they're not relevant, Chekhov's Gun and all that.

I've said to basically just say what your eye would be drawn to and a general description, like Your party walks through the tree line and into a clearing. The grass is a vivid green and dotted with tiny pink flowers. Toward the center of this almost perfectly circular clearing, there is a massive tree, with a trunk wide enough for you all to stand inside. There seems to be a thin gap on one side, and it's dead silent except for your breathing and the sounds of your packs and armor rustling."

Hey, I play D&D blind weekly with sighted players. I'm assuming they already have character sheet stuff taken care of.

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Just in case either of you don't know, Knights Of The Braille is an excellent resource for blind low-vision players. D&DBeyond's character creator is a bit broken for screen reader users at the moment, but all of the handbooks are quite accessible there. Avrae on Discord also has a really good dice parser, and you can import character sheets and use it to fully manage a game.

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As for actually playing, we don't use any visual content except for a chess board to keep track of characters. The DM will describe the scene for everyone, call out positions on the board, and will happily tell me the position of all characters on the board when I ask. Very important for combat. Whether someone is using a dice tower or sending roll commands to the Avrae bot, we all call out our dice rolls, except for the DM who will divulge whether it's a pass or fail through storytelling. Our DM also plays music and adds ambience with a bluetooth speaker. It really does a lot to enhance the mood. If we meet in person, we sometimes even use RGB bulbs to add even more mood to the game. This works as long as all players have at least light perception.

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Last thing, I find that it's very helpful to have a simplified character sheet available for me. It's something I created myself with a lot of shorthand and only includes the most important stat blocks. It saves a lot of time when looking up some info I need for a roll or a spell or HP or sorcery points or what have you. If they don't have something like that, it would be worth considering.

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Other than that, it sounds like you're doing a pretty good job. D&D is a lot of theatre of the mind, so pretty much everyone is on equal footing when it comes to imagining up all the locations. It's mostly stats and combat which might need a little help without sight.

As long as the player is fine with the tech aspect, I’d say you sound like you’re doing a good job as it is. There’s not really much adaptation needed, as a lot of it is textbased, as in it’s all in what you say as the Diem. I play in a group of all blind or visually impaired players, but we have a sighted Diem. That’s not on purpose, that’s literally just the way things panned out. But there’s not really much we do to adapt things. We built our character sheets on D&D beyond, and we use roll20 for our rolls. Though if you’re using physical dice, just reading out the number is fine. Unless it’s one of those hidden rolls of course. As others have said, don’t worry about going overboard with the descriptions, sighted players probably won’t be looking at images either, so it’s a fairly even playing field, and sometimes peoples imaginations are the best source of inspiration.

Same issue here. I think you already caring for him is enough. Be cautious, they usually don't like either being the one which everything is build around. The difference between a game for a blind and a game with a blind is key.

You sound like you’re doing a good job! I’d explain any memes if someone drops them in the chat. This happens in the game my boyfriend runs and he explains them to me so I don’t feel left out. I think ask if he would like background noise, I know for me personally I find it too distracting but others like it.

Not sure if Roll20 is accessible, but Ready to Roll is an accessible dice-roller for the iPhone. Very easy interface, and help is provided within the game.

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It sounds like you are doing pretty good so far.

For some people, background noise/ambience also help. I believe there are a few resources on the D&D room on reddit for that.