Most blind people I know are legally blind but only a handful are totally blind.

Also, we can do every day necessities that vision abled individuals can do such as cooking, cleaning, showering, laundry, paying bills, going to work (we just rely on public transportation) and we even can play sports or participate on teams such as rowing.

Most blind individuals I know also went on to get college degrees in STEM fields.

We just rely on guide canes, voice over, and accessibility programs like JAWS along with a handful of apps.

My scale and meat thermometer are talking ones. My scale is actually bluetooth and connects to my phone so I can hear the scale through my headphones.

In addition, I have a braille display to read on when I don't want to rely on voice over.

Voice Dream app is what I tend to use for most of my reading along with bookshare.

I read grade 2 braille. Grade 2 does not mean second grade elementary school. Grade 2 means the level of braille. There are three levels but the third is just very old crazy short hand braille and more used for note taking but not really anything else.

If you can't get a copy of JAWS, then download NVDA accessibility program and learn that one. If you have an ipad or iphone, go under accessibility and turn on voice over. Youtube how to set the iphone rotary up to make it easier on you.

Fun fact, you don't need a cane to walk, guide canes just make it easier and safer, but your legs work without one.

Also we don't develop super hearing, or other super senses, we just pay attention to our surrounding more by active listening.

Get a $20 draftsman board off of Amazon, put some black electric tape on some cacoons and do vector calculus drawings using the draftsman board and your hand.

I'd strongly suggest that you don't walk around in your house or outside under any type of sleep shade or taped sunglasses.

You can technically walk around your house like that I suppose, just have someone with you.

Don't make all your characters totally blind. Look up conditions that causes blindness such as Dominant Optic Atrophy, LHON, Macular Degeneration, and Retinitis Pigmentosa.

My blindness is something $1 Although it's a bit different and this isn't me in the video.

You want to make it real accurate? Have the main characters get asked a million times a day how they can do their career without vision. In public, have people talk to the person they're with instead of them directly even though they're the customer. Have others treat them as if losing their vision has somehow made them lose their IQ. And have all their mail from the state they live in be addressed to their significant other or parent instead of addressed directly to them even though they should be the only ones receiving their mail and important documents from federal and state governments, not anyone else.

Edit: If they're BIPOC or a female, make sure they are failed a million times by medical establishments, and make sure they go periods of time in the hospital with being straight ignored altogether as if they don't even exist. And if the female gives birth, make sure some nurse calls CPS on the mother simply for being blind and asking for a lactation consultant. Then have the nurse say asking for a lactation consultant obviously means the mother is unable to take care of her baby (bullshit lie btw, blind people raise children all the damn time) and have that female fight for her newborn baby in the court system, while only being given access to her newborn with supervised visitation and all because she is simply blind. True story, happened in my region.

Being blind doesn't diminish a person's quality of life, but having to deal with the ignorant toxic people that a blind person has to deal with over and over again can diminish anyone's quality of life.

Edit 2: Have them be failed by their college disability department because of proprietary software that only meets accessibility criteria on paper and not in practice.

Fun fact, $1. Have the professor act like they can't come up with some solution to make the assignments accesible. Have the disability department question the blind characters why they don't just choose history for a degree.

Have your characters go through the process of getting $1.

But definitely have your characters fight EVERY step of the way to not be railroaded to a shelter workshop that only has to pay you $2.33 a hour, but since the blind person didn't work long enough due to economic recession many years ago, they don't qualify for full social security disability and have them ineligible for SSI because their significant other makes too much a month.

And that's just assuming they're not just abandoned by their SO for suddenly going blind. I got lucky and my SO stuck around, others I know have lost marriages or long term relationships as soon as they became legally blind.

Edit 3: Also it's been a very trying week for me, and I apologize if this shows in my post, that's not necessarily my intentions.

Edit 4: Also don't have any of them have guide dogs. Most blind people have to demonstrate they can fully use the guide cane to get around before even being considered for a guide dog. Guide dogs do not work the way that the general public think they work. They work more along the ways a guide cane works. The dog doesn't "lead" you any where, you lead the guide dog, the guide dog just helps you navigate obstacles in your path (ie if you feel the guide dog step down off of a curb, you know there is a curb ahead and to step down). Because you don't know fully the proper techniques of a guide cane, you can end up writing cliché inaccuracies about guide dogs.

Also, $1. The one thing I disagree with is the use of plastic instead of glassware. I use glassware just fine.

And if you want to go deeper, turn on audio descriptions on netflix and watch a movie or show that way. When blind people go to theaters, they're issued headphones that connect to a device that quietly plays them the audio descriptions for the movie.

We do not go around touching peoples faces.

Why?

Not being snarky but it would be interesting to know why you have decided to use multiple blind characters