Simple fact is that we can't play some videogames, since they are just completely inaccessible. Also, I wrote it in braille, and then a sighted person who knew braille would transcribe it to print. Also, you could use a drawing board

I have some vision, enough to have to learn most of the things you listed as a sighted person would, but I am colorblind. As a disclaimer, I can see very saturated colors in the right lighting, but functionally I am basically fully colorblind.

First, you learn colors as a child in school and at home regardless of if you can see them or not, so I know what color most things are: the sky is blue, grass is green, bananas are yellow. At least in a mainstream school, I can't speak for schools for the blind.

Then, you learn how colors are perceived, just through everyday life. Our language is saturated with color imagery, and people can't help but use color to describe everything. Colors are associated with emotions and moods--something will be described as being a bold red, or a nice calming blue, or a vivid green. So if someone asks me to describe, say, gray, I can tell you that it's a neutral color, it can be flat and boring, sometimes depressing if there's too much of it.

I should mention that I will never agree to the sighted idea that I "see in shades of gray," because I do know the colors of things and I know that many things are not gray, so I cannot possibly see them as gray. Not to mention it does not give sighted people an accurate idea of what my vision is, since they imagine being colorblind as losing their own precious color vision, while I've never seen color and don't feel like I've lost anything.

However, as far as identifying goes, for things that aren't a common object associated with a certain color, I can't identify it very accurately. So if someone asks me what color the apple they're holding is and I can tell that it's a dark color and therefore not yellow or green, it's probably red. But if someone picks up a medium-colored shirt off the rack at a store and asks me what color it is, I can't tell if it's green, blue, gray, purple, etc.

I used a brailler only for the first two grades or so, switching to a computer afterwards. They are indeed pretty loud and inefficient; I like reading in braille, but I am glad I only rarely have to write it! It did not bother the teachers, though, since at the time I was still attending a blindy school — if I could go back I'd start in a normal one right away to learn some proper socialisation, but ah well.

I only ever solved simple math problems on paper, and imagine anything else would get confusing fast. But after switching to a computer I used a math system developed by Slovenian math teachers for the blind, which was heavily based on LaTeX. Pretty convenient for understanding various math problems posted online. Our system has since been updated, though, to use Slovenian words rather than English, so future students will not have the same advantage, but may learn it faster.

Colours? 🤷‍♀️ You can't help but pick those up — they're everywhere!

As already mentioned, we can't really play most video games, because the developers did not think it worth the time and money to make the maccessible to us, or did not even consider it. There are a few — like The Last of Us 2, Code 7, Sequence Storm, etc. — that are developed by more awesome people. There is also a pretty big collection of audio games out there. For example, I really recommend picking up The Vale, as it is well worth the price and has been enjoyed even by many sighted gamers.
https://falling-squirrel.itch.io/the-vale
Though of course, there is also plenty of free ones out there. Let us know what you're into, and we can give suggestions.

Check out a blind person play through of the last of us two on YouTube, it’s playable by the completely blind.

I was very very low vision and rapidly losing vision by 6 or 7 maybe even five I had not much to call vision. So there’s one question I can’t properly answer and that is colors because even if it was lousy vision I remember seeing colors and still remember colors. I couldn’tr see anything else well enough so everything else I can answer.


I learnt animals by more of how they felt how they sounded what these animals were. Stuff animals were pretty helpful as a representation and every kid has a million of those right. And I actually rode on some like an elephant and a horse.


Of course you learnt that cows goes moo and a cat goes meow. Hahaha!

As to learning math I used and still do use a perkins I am actually an older student now almost 30 and a classic braille perkins is sitting directly right in front of me I’ve been on here and doing lots of math problems. I use my perkins a lot. I have been doing math like this since school and have always done it this way. I would give my done math to the vision teacher and she would transcribe it.

In class they would either not mind it or I’d do it in a corner. In high school I’d use a braillenote to complete the math and then embossed the work and then it would be transcribed but I think I like the brailler way.

I’ve used a brailler in class and have even recently and it’s meh people learn to tolerate it.

This is also on another reply to you so yeah, I may add something to it though.

Dad had a lot of print letters that was magnets and I would be encouraged to play with them so I know most of my upper case letters. When I was in middle or high school someone came over and I was taught how to write my name in cursive for a signature. It’s probably the world’s lousiest handwriting but I know how to sign with my name in cursive and how it’s suppose to look. We wrote it over and over again, she might have had made me feel the letter traced on a paper. I loved the magnetic letters from my childhood though. I haven’t learnt lower case letters unfortunately.

I sometimes practice writing a little bit or have done some here and there probably not really legible. My father wouldn’t have it any other way his blind kid would still know some print letters.



I never got in to movies and t.v. But would just listen to it like it was media and learnt what was going on listened to the noises. Not a huge fan of audio description and was even more against it when young.

Never got in to gaming or audio games and I think it’s just who I am that I am neither in to t.v. Or video games.

How were you taught to write in print

When I was young, I played a math game called Math Flash that read the problems allowed. I attended a public school and used a braille writer for most of my math, which, thankfully, didn't bother anybody. Plus, I had the best braille teacher. I think the reason she had me do my work in braille is so I wouldn't forget it and continue learning different symbols, especially in math.

For the video game question, feel free to post over on /r/AccessibleGaming. You're question has many complicated answers haha.

"Without no vision" is a double negative. Just saying.