In an older post I included links to some academic papers about teaching blind students in science and math. Here's the link:

$1

If you google "reddit blind math" you'll find several relevant posts. Although you're teaching social anthropology, math education for the blind would lead you to information about creating accessible diagrams.

A side note: if you describe a diagram out loud after having drawn it such that the blind student will understand it--or at least know enough to ask questions later--then you will be helping other students as well. A saying here in the U.S.: "Accessible design is good design."

Presenting and re-presenting material in multiple modalities will help a lot of students. Some students need it, but many more students benefit from it.

You might consider how you'd present the material if all students in the class were blind. Then integrate that approach into your presentations for all students.

Encourage your student to attend your office hours regularly.

For videos and images, current tools to automated the generation of descriptions aren't that great. If the students pair up for study or to complete projects anyway, a sighted student could benefit from having a class partner describe videos and images to the blind student. Then if pairings are changed from project to project, the students would all gain experience in this.

Blind since birth, went to college.

It's mostly saying the things you write on the board. Not being able to see video isn't new for a blind person. And we'll pick up more than you'd assume, from the audio context and the context of the lecture. Perhaps, if there's a particularly striking or important visual image, describe that image out loud, a very brief description is fine.

Where are you? My University has an office of disability services that helps with issues like this. Do you use anything like Canvas to make materials available? I think Canvas does auto-captioning or transcripts of videos, but I'm not sure. Has the student been in other classes at your school? Aside from talking to her, speaking with former professors about their strategies might be helpful.

she's gotten this far by knowing her own limits and needs, so work with her as you have been. reading what you're putting on the board is helpful. If she has no vision and never has had any, she'll probably not have much use for any diagrams. Judge and assess on her knowledge more than her presentation where possible. If there are source materials that would be harder for her to access (visual video without meaningful audio components, print reference books without comparable online versions etc), obviously work around those where you can.
Be clear as to what level of visual input any assessments will need (if she *has* to draw something in a final exam, consider that now rather than later).
Send her here, or come as her proxy, with any accessibility specifics.

you have started out on the right path, great job so far

Ask her, don't ask us. She knows what she needs more than anyone here on Reddit does.

That, and no disrespect intended, but the fact you're here on Reddit asking what the blind student needs is the bigger problem here. She's not an alien who you need to figure out, she's just blind. You do know you can just go ask her and she will tell you, right?

Us blind folks are good at being blind, because we don't have a choice. Generally, if we need something, we'll just tell you. If she's maybe shy or suffering from depression, then just ask her what she wants, and she'll tell you if she needs something.

Hi, I'd ask the student to put me in contact with their teacher of blind students in high school. That way I could ask them questions on how to provide the needed accomodations. They probably don't teach the student any more, but they will want to help by meeting and explaining what you need to know.

Could you send her a copy before class of anything you are planning to put on the board?

[deleted]