While my manager believed in me I don’t think some of the other higher ups did, even though it was a disability place. Not specifically a blindness place. It was at a school and I was working for the disability office.

All the people at the front desk would come in and try to do my job because obviously I wasn’t there and I wasn’t competent at teaching tech or helping out people in the lab. *being sarcastic here*


I got sexually harassed and kind of assaulted. The guy took advantage of my blindness but thankfully he didn’t touch me. And I had no idea what was going on. Doesn’t help I am very far in the aromantic asexual side of things. After that they couldn’t let me be alone anymore.

I'm VI and my experience wasn't great at all. I worked for a medium sized print shop for 8 years. They were aware of my declining vision for 2.5 years. However, instead of making a few small changes to help me out, they forced me out with severence.

I'm used to tech being able to solve all my problems. My colleague dropped me a handwritten note asking me to take a new laptop down, very important, interrupt whatever's going on.
the junk paper he used to write it was a letterheaded bit of scrap from the printer... So I tookit to the CEO who's name was actually embossed on the corner of the sheet rather than the right person. My app picked that up over the name he'd handwritten.
CEO was in a big meeting, I was in bad books for a while.

Shout out to when my boss threw a sponge at me to catch because he forgot I was blind wheeze

I asked for accommodations for screen reader and braille display before going back to work after developing my fun vision problems. Something in the coding of our software changed and I mentioned it to my manager that I no longer could find a button I use daily with my screen reader. HR comes back to me a couple weeks later and asks if I need an accommodation. My code illiterate ass had to explain that our developers had removed whatever label on the back end that lets my screen reader read the links to me. They deleted the code that allowed me to access my accommodations. It’s been 2 months. Still not fixed. I’ll be without even light perception in a few years so I’m pushing hard for them to get their crap together now so that I don’t lose my job. It’s really mind blowing that out of 30,000+ people using this software, I’m the only VI person using a screen reader.

I was a supervisor and one of the roles as a supervisor is to help watch the front desk when people take lunches so one day I offered to do so and a lady who is also a supervisor said no I wouldn’t be able to see if someone came in. They had a doorbell! It just made me feel inferior. Later in that job I was left all alone once when there was some meeting that didn’t apply to my position LOL but it wasn’t that lady‘s choice who ultimately stepped up to say no the first time!

I just don't wanna remember those horrible days, left the damn work within a month.

The worst I've had is one or two devs I work with screen sharing and not enlarging their tiny fonts or slowing the hell down when navigating through their unfamiliar to me editor setup so that I can keep track of what's going on. Most are super chill about things or let me drive or make sure they bump up their fonts, but one or two just don't get it. They're great people, but it's like it's a concept they just can't get their heads around.