Hi u/razzretina,
Researchers at Columbia University are currently developing a system that makes tennis videos accessible to people with visual impairments. We are looking for blind and low vision people to try out this system and offer feedback. The study will be conducted entirely online via Zoom and we expect it to be no longer than 2 hours. You will be compensated with a $25 gift card for your valuable time.
If you are interested, please fill out the following Google Form and we will follow up with you: $1. You should be 18 years or older and preferably speak English to participate in this study.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reply on this thread.

Honestly seconded. I have ADHD and if it doesn’t show up in my feed or inbox I miss it

I msged the owner of that sub awhile back. We as in members of /r/Blind decided on /r/blindsurveys.

We created /r/blindsurveys/ and will be using this in the near future.

We actually have something coming soon -I will follow up this weekend!

I've got no experience in this area from an acting or playwriting point of view, but since blind people are a spectrum, I'd be happy to provide some info for you about what I do know and what I know that I don't know. LOL
Discord is: Superfreq#2817
But if you wana use another method let me know and we can work something out.

Happy to help and talk. You don’t need to be nervous. A little bit of research and understandinggoes a long long way.

Pretty good survey honestly, much better than most school surveys I've done!

Well filled it out if you want to talk let me know. There are by the way some of us who are indeed totally blind and we are a sizable bunch too. There should be differences between the two those who do indeed see pitch black/nothing at all, which isn’t black but okay, and those who have some vision. Those of us in the blind community who are totals call them visually impaired or partials.

I believe the cofounder was his wife. She was a person of colour, if memory serves.

I know its not much, but I hope it helps. Best of luck to you.

Me and my boss is actually planning on working on such a program! I am still in the process of training though. I know what he has planned for it but I don’t know if I can talk about it publically on a forum. :D hopefully we can come up with something. My boss or employer I am contracting with has thought about marketing it to companys that may be able to use it.

I have nothing right now but it will be in development when I have done training and actually start development if things goes well. Dm if you’re interested to talk more.

In particular, I am curious about Zendesk and if anyone has experiencing navigating that with a screen reader. They have a great $1 page, but I know having that kind of documentation and actually following through with what it lays out can be 2 totally different things.

Yes sure I’ll help but I am in california in the United states, I hope that is okay? If so we can get in touch and you can get me in touch with any and all if you want and I’d be happy to keep participating in the projects.

I think it’s a waste of time. And you’re trying to reinvent the wheel. If this is for that grade and no more sure. Great. Go on. If you want it to be impactful and meaningful, I would suggest you try something else. Virtually bunches of students want to do this and the same projects. We get a lot of these. They kind of already exist but most blind people don’t use nor want them. We have our canes and it does the job better and more marvelous and it’s older. Most mobility type solutions are not really wanted or that good. If you can invent an app that tracs or read bus signs maybe. If you can improve and patent something more accurate then gps you’d be an einstein. There’s other problems out there that are worth investigating. If you can somehow map out all the shops at a plaza and can get people to them, that will be good or a street corner and can get people to them, but again, this will require stuff more precise then gps.

There is Point of sale systems, self check outs and stuff at airports that can be worked on.

Most surveys are on r/blindsurveys but I agree all surveys should be directed there. Hard for anyone to mod this thread even and I am mod over there and hard to help out here since this sub isn’t my perview. But yeah. A bit confused why this thread is still up. Maybe just don’t do a post here and just redirect everyone over there?

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Yeah, I am happy to help you may get more responses over at r/blindsurveys

Occasionally. There was that post from yesterday below. I contacted the guy. He seems to want to find cane users to talk to and not krane users hahaha! I messaged him asked him if this is indeed what he means. Then he disappeared. I told him I would talk to him but have not heard back.

Do you mean Cain? If not that’s OK. But if you do, are use the cane

Okay I did it.

Hi you'd be better off posting this to /r/blindsurveys

You're not going to find more than a small handful of legally blind people who use VR. Not only are the interfaces lacking in accessibility them selves, but their are very few usable programs for the platform and no properly accessible ones.
Few of us even own graphics cards powerful enough to make use of these devices, and justifying the money for a VR headset you likely won't get any use out of is difficult.

Okay I replied I have a little bit of experience I once owned a vr headset and did some binaural recordings if that counts. But not that much. I also don’t have a Vr headset myself but have a lot of computers from mac to windows to chromebook. And powerful mac and windows. Or relatively powerful windows. So yeah. I am really a techy not so much of a gamer or vr person more of a dev so yeah. Willing to help if I can.

I can only speak from my own experience here but there's two stages - grieving and after grieving. Either she's still grieving or she's done.

If she's done grieving she's not going to have a problem on the one year anniversary of her blindness. If he's still grieving she's not going to be happy on the other 364 days of the year.

Yes, grieving is a process, not an event. It doesn't suddenly stop. It slowly gets better with time. I acknowledge this. But it still feels like the girl in your story shouldn't be positive and happy all the time except on the anniversary of her accident.

I hope that makes sense.

Other than that minor detail your depiction of her is fine. Good job!

Would love to help, but I am in los angeles california

I think most of tech is actually pretty awesome already, but you could work on a probably working point of sale machine, like those units that you can use at the cash registers or self check outs at the stores.

Otherwise I think you are wasting your time, if I may be forthright.

I am a totally blind person here and a techy and a software developer and have worked in tech for a while now.

We do not actually need something like that, because what already does exist is very good already, or at least in progress. They have made existing devices pretty accessible by building it in to current devices. Most of what needs to be worked on is improving accessibility and other apps that can be developed but not duplicate say a screen reader. That’s my professional advice.

Happy to have a conversation with you all too.

The trend seems to be a QR code at the restaurant table. We hold our phone camera over it and the menu appears on our phones. Text to speech software reads the menu aloud to us.

What advantage does a Braille menu have over that? It's an honest question - I'm willing to learn, but the QR code is cheaper, can be updated instantly to reflect new menu items or prices, and doesn't spread germs like a physical menu does. It can also include ingredients, allergy warnings, calorie counts, and more information that simply won't fit on a Braille menu.

What can a Braille menu offer?

I'll send you a PM too, I really enjoyed "Katawa Shoujo" for the most part, but it wasn't perfect, and I would jump at the chance to have input on another visual novel.

Willing to help was helping another cool author with his novel too. I’ll pm. Have been doing advocacy and rep work for a while so I know what I am doing too.

The form says you aren't taking responses any more. Is this accurate?

I’d love to help if you want to interview me or something. I think I can help. I’ve struggled and really learnt to advocate and represent and done a lot in my life. I can give you an interview I did. If you need someone to interview.

Unfortunately, this survey is impossible to complete with a screen-reader. None of the questions related to the radio buttons show up at all. Would it be possible for you to host this on a different survey platform?

Hi I tried taking your survey but one problem. None of the questions are labled or I don’t know what the questions are, there are just the choices. I will be more than happy to take it if you fix it. Also if you want to interview people about it or talk to people I am happy to do so as well.

I am not musical but I am happy to help I am a techy.

I'm tall, fit, and handsome. I don't get hit on a lot, but sometimes it happens. Especially when I dress nice.

I was at WalMart awhile back. My wife was in the store but we had separated for a bit because I didn't want to wait in line at the pharmacy with her. We agreed to meet in the dairy aisle.

I was almost to the dairy aisle when a girl starts flirting with me. I politely excuse myself and don't engage. She went her way and I went mine.

I thought that was the end of the story but nope, I wouldn't be writing this if it was. Turns out she was an employee and she was checking receipts at the exit when my wife and I left the store. She waved us through without making eye contact.

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My wife and I dance at the local New Wave dance club most weekends. The club is on a street that's under construction so we have to park a quarter mile away in a residential neighborhood.

When we're together my wife holds my left hand and I hold my white cane in my right. My wife is mesmerized by the cane - she can't take her eyes off of it. Blind guy at night, dark neighborhood, low hanging branches, tall Redditor, BAM!

My cane tells me where the sidewalk ends, Honey. I need you to tell me where the tree branches are. When we get to the club it looks like she beat me up.

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We went to Tennessee to see our son and the grandbabies. My daughter in law cooked dinner and set a plate on the table in front of me, except she set it really far away, like in the middle of the table. So I pulled it closer to me. Except I was wrong - the plate was at the edge of the table, I just couldn't see how far away from the table I was sitting. So I pulled the plate right onto my lap.

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Whenever I fly on an airplane the airline lets me on the plane before anyone else. One time I walked onboard and was greeted by the Captain. I must have had jet lag or something - I normally wouldn't do this - but I offered him my dark glasses and white cane to mess with the rest of the passengers. He didn't laugh.

One time I didn't board first: I handed my ticket to a steward and asked him to escort me to my assigned seat. I followed him back until he turned around and said "We're here."

"Left or right?" I asked.

"Right," he said, so I reached my hand to the seat on the right and slapped the face of the woman already sitting there.

"No! *My* right, your left!"

Sure I’ll help why don’t you message me or something and we can figure it out.

I think. You’re wasting your time. Apple has done a great job with the iphone and accessibility and it is to be improved. I think finding something else to do would be better.

Imagine you're blind and you're in your kitchen. You know where the sink and oven and fridge are - that's easy. It's your kitchen, after all.

Suppose you want to make a fruit salad for lunch. You open up the pantry and grab a can.

Is it a can of peaches? Is it chili beans? Chicken noodle soup? You can't read the label. Maybe it's a can of creamed corn, or maybe it's a can of tomato paste. How would you tell? They all feel the same and weigh the same.

What I really want is a kitchen camera, something installed under one of the upper cabinets that will read aloud the label of any food product I hold under the cabinet. I wouldn't care if it's a complete product or an accessory for Alexa or Siri, just something that can read the label and tell me how much potassium is in each serving.

Is this can a Bud Light or a Pepsi? Are these mint cookies gluten free? When does this carton of milk expire? How high do I set the oven for this frozen lasagna?

The only strategy I've come up with is elastic bands on the spice bottles. Spice bottles are tiny, and even though I have some usable vision left, it's not enough to read the small print on a spice bottle. So I wrap an elastic band around the curry, two elastic bands around the nutmeg, etc.

I think blind people are well suited for a normal kitchen. Maybe you want to investigate other disabilities. I find if we can find the right equipment that is actually accessible it should work.

Hey just wondering are you planning to close out this thread or keep it open indefinitely. There’s been a few that I’ve and others had to suggest should post over there. From this thread. And no one but me checks it and apparently one other person.

Are you planning to get rid of this thread after this month and move it all to that sub then?

Joined. Today I started writing a post and then was on the fence about whether I was effectively writing a survey post or not. Since I was on the fence, I figured it probably was a survey, even if it's a one question survey of the sort "What do you think about X?"

Anyway, happy to join the survey sub.

Yes I heard about this. And I am willing to help mod if you want.

Yes definitely very interested. And I am someone with some coding knowledge starting out in dev work but have been in online and app accessibility for a long time.