You know how wet floor signs are our nemesis? You catch them with your cane and they go flying!

Well today I was walking along the pavement on my way to the supermarket and I found a barrier between a van and the building line. So I walk into the road and stick my head around the side of the van to listen for traffic and decide its safe enough to start walking in the parking road to get around the obstruction. A man then “helpfully” tells me I am walking in the road 😂 yep thats the idea mate, they’ve blocked the path.

Anyway, I pass two vans before finding an opening I can get between and instead of using a barrier like on the others side I quickly find myself in what I can only describe is a sea of wet floor signs. They are falling all over the place! Every swing and I am knocking another down! Gosh what a pain in the backside. I tried to find my way around them while another person is telling me there’s a wet floor signs there, yeah no shit!

But its not like they were in a line or anything, just seemingly scattered about with gaps in between.

I can laugh at it now but it felt like pure chaos in that moment!

Does anyone else have any funny or embarrassing wet floor sign adventures?

I am genuinely curious about what and how you all cook! I am starting to think that precise cooking like baking and baked dishes are the way to go. I used to be somewhat decent on a grill but not so much anymore. Let me know!

I'll try and explain what I mean by this.

I'm 23 years old and I'm visually impaired, but I don't have enough vision to like look at myself in the mirror or anything. A few weeks ago, it was brought to my attention that apparently my whole face moves when I talk, and… I did not know this. I thought my mouth was the only thing that moves, but apparently no, that's not correct. And apparently everyone is like this, at least most people are anyway.

I don't know how to deliberately control my facial expressions, my face just kind of does whatever it wants. School pictures were a nightmare back in the day. Nobody has really taught me anything about it, and I'm just kind of confused, and now I'm realizing that there's this whole world to explore.

I guess I have a few questions.

Have you guys learned how to control your facial movements? I can open and close my eyes, and I can talk just fine, but I don't really know how to do anything else that other people seem to know how to do.

Do you have any understanding of what people talk about when they mention different expressions or movements or anything, because I don't.

Is it worth it to learn about this? And how would I even go about learning? All my friends are blind in real life, and they can't really help me with this because I asked them and they have no clue either. I'm working on meeting more people with Vision.

I'm just asking all this because I'm so curious. This whole concept is so strange to me, because I can't really feel what my face is doing, I've just never paid attention to it.

this is aside from ChatGPT of course but like what do you guys use aside from people to describe pictures from you?? My first thought is Be My Eyes but I don’t have a second device to show whenever I have a screenshot of something I’d like to described but yeah any recommendations please

Our first child was born blind, and we’re expecting our second, who will be sighted. They’ll be about 19 months apart.

I’ve been wondering how other families navigate activities that rely heavily on vision, like movies, theatre or the circus.

Of course, we want to include both children in everything possible, but what if our sighted child loves going to the cinema? Should we always offer our blind daughter the same experience and let her decide whether she enjoys it, even without audio description?

I’d especially love to hear from blind adults who grew up with sighted siblings. Were you included in these kinds of activities? Did you enjoy them anyway, or did you sometimes feel left out when your sibling did something without you?

I realise I might be looking at this from a very sighted perspective, which is exactly why I’m asking. 😅I want both children to have their own interests and experiences without either feeling excluded.

Heads up for anyone like myself that has been experiencing a buggy VoiceOver since installing iOS 27, I think it's mostly back to normal. The issue with the Siri voices speech rate is one of the issues appears mostly resolved on my end. Also, I'm not noticing any hiccups or choppy popping sounds. The one issue I have run into is the mispronunciation of some words that weren't there before like words with'apostrophes', like "you're" and "they're". If anyone notices something I'm missing let me know so I can test it out on my end as well, using an iPhone 17 Pro, And mind you, I'm only using American Siri voice 4.

Okay, let’s start from the beginning. I updated NVDA to the latest version, and my speech engine—which I use in Brazilian Portuguese, my native language—is completely broken.

I’ve had to switch to a horrible-sounding voice, and I’m trying to use the Sonata voices for now, but for some reason, those aren’t working either.

I’m autistic, and this is causing me to have a meltdown right now. Is anyone else experiencing this?

How can I fix the issue with Sonata, considering I’ve already downloaded the C++ [redistributable] as requested on the website?