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!

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 recently started seeing a therapist, which was a big move for me. It took me a long time to get there, so I went in really wanting it to work.

He's very big on responsibility. He wants his patients to take control of their lives and own the work of improving things. I understand that, and in a lot of areas I agree with him. There are things in my life I can change, and I'd like to.

But when I told him about the difficulties I have in my social life and relationships, he said something that's stuck with me ever since: "Maybe the world doesn't antagonize you because you have a disability." He also suggested that maybe I'm giving off certain cues that make people treat me differently.

I can't stop thinking about it. Part of me wonders if he has a point, because I don't want to be someone who blames everything on being blind. Then I think about how people actually act around me, and it feels like he's telling me I imagined all of it. That's the part that hurts. I went to him hoping to be understood, and I came away feeling like the problem had been handed back to me.

I've booked a session for this week to tell him how that comment landed, and I'm honestly terrified. I'm scared he'll think I'm Just enjoying playing the victim and throwing a pity party for myself, which I think he already does to a certain degree.

So I'd really like to hear from people here. Has a therapist ever downplayed the way people treat you because of your blindness? Did you bring it up with them, and how did it go? Did things get better, or did you end up finding someone else?

Thanks for reading. It means a lot to be able to ask people who actually get it.

Hi,

I am developing an app for desktops that helps to surf Internet hands free and need some advice about a feature about describing images and videos. I found the results pretty impressive myself but not sure what an individual with visual impairment needs actually. I really appreciate it if someone comment if this could be useful or what could make it more useful.

When the app commanded like "describe video" on a webpage it basically takes 3 secrenshots of the video with 5s intervals then explains in a pragraph like below.

"The screenshot captures a wide-angle shot of a massive, high-energy live concert inside a packed stadium. The stage dominates the upper half of the frame, bathed in intense, dramatic beams of neon blue and laser purple light that cut through a thick layer of atmospheric stage haze. In the center of the stage, a performer is visible as a crisp silhouette against a giant, glowing LED backscreen displaying abstract geometric patterns. The lower half of the image shows the dense crowd of the audience from behind; they are completely back-lit, with dozens of hands raised high in the air, some holding up glowing smartphone screens that create tiny dots of warm light across the darkness. The overall mood is electric, dark, and overwhelming, capturing a peak moment of a live musical performance."

As the processing requires time it is not possible to give an exact moment's description but this can be handled by stopping the video before asking for a description. I also thought about giving continues updates but it's not much practical trying to concentrate both on original audio itself and the description speech, so I didn't even try.

I would love to hear you or your loved one's opinions and needs when browsing on a desktop.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2026.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. This release includes significant performance improvements, improvements to NVDA’s dialogs, and expanded touch screen input.

Read the full announcement and download it now from: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-3/

We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.

Do you all ever think that life like this isn't worth it? It's been an off and on thought I have had over the last couple of years. It's hard to go from seeing to legally blind and trying to find thngs to make life enjoyable. I feel so depressed.

Ahoy there! I myself am 100% sighted, while my wife is 100% blind (double prosthetics). For reference, she could see until 23 and is 41. So she has a lot of visual memory. She's going through a bit of a midlife crisis on her blindness past 6 months when she's previously been very confident. She's having a lot of trouble with not having a social network and more friends nearby that will hang out with her. So she feels it's because she's a burden to be friends with. It breaks my heart. So I've been working with her to try to find activities where she can grow a larger social network, get us outside, and have fun!

Our latest venture has been paintball! I love it and took her for the first time today and it went pretty well. The venue was extremely accommodating. We found out on the target range that she has a crazy ability if I shot at a target, she could shoot a second later and either hit it spot on or very close. It was incredible.

The problem came with actual games. With my ADHD I felt this would also be a great activity to help me work on my immediate directional communication with her, but def didnt go well today. The first game she said she was having a panic attic because it was hard to breathe through the mask after we climbed up to a second floor to defend a base. And once the firing started, she had no clue or reference on anything. So many shots made it impossible for her to figure out what was going on. I got her calmed down and next game went quite a bit better.

So, first we know if she wants to do this we need to get her a mask that is custom and comfortable for her needs. But I think we also need a community! Are there any other blind paintball players her? Suggestions on how to make the experience better and ideas for communicating? We decided to play as one person and I found a double carabiner bungie we attached ourselves together with. She thinks it would also be better with other blind players and smaller teams. So here's me reaching out to ya'll for any interest, info, or ideas!

Dont want her to give up, cause she definitely acknowledged loving the community and environment. But she just had no reference or idea of what was happening ever.

Hi. I wish to learn german, I am very much a beginner, just A1 right now. any resources or tips are appreciated, a lot of resources put translations in texts, like most of youtube cources like from german pod 101 or the other one I cant remember the name of. I tried nico's weg, but its not a lot accessible when I opened some lessons to read. I prefer audio over text in this instance, as to help with pronounsiation. I just got my hands on coffee break german.

My mom is being offered a trail of Meta glasses through Helen Keller Services.

She has Retinitis Pigmentosa. Her diagnosis was in her late 30s. She is in her 80s now. I understand that the progression of her illness has been slower than for some, but now she has 2% field of vision with color changes and a graph paper overlay on what she sees.

It seems like the Meta Glass es might make a big difference for her. And the Be My Eyes feature would be an additional benefit.

Does anyone have personal experience with these glasses (and Be My Eyes) for themselves or for a family member and can give the pros and cons of their experience so my mom knows the truth of what she can expect? Thanks.

Hi - some advice please im visually impaired in my left eye following my stroke- my work has been ok but not brilliant they brought in a new quality process on documents I produce which is basically focusing on spelling grammar font size etc etc not impossible but hard when you don't see very well - they did get me the zoomtext software and I was given 2 hours training on the setup etc - this was 2 years ago - ive asked for a more detailed training course and been told ive had my training and won't supply anymore- am I being unreasonable asking for more training?

The bathroom in an office building is fairly predictable. But bathrooms in airports and rest centers seem random with no predictable pattern. For example, I encountered an entrance with an S gate - not a L or U shape. As far as I know, you have to bounce around until you find a recognizable object. The situation can be very difficult with literally hundreds of people movie around you. Any navigation tips?

Please help me I’m literally so upset I’m 18 and everyone around me is doing their theory
Going car shopping, I’m someone who hate public transport. What do I do? How do you guys deal with this
I am in the Uk btw. I can’t take this man, my vision is seriously taking this away from me

How do y'all go about getting assistance with voting? I have RP and I just got to the point in the last couple years where I can't read anymore and I'm wondering what to do about going to the polls. Am I allowed to take someone with me to give me assistance? Can I ask for assistance at the voting place?

Hey yall I know this is like so niche but I’m trying to lose weight and honestly would like to start working out and know id do it much easier by doing a workout in my dorm room than going 20 minutes to the gym lol. I’m legally blind so I can see somethings in front of me… sometimes… but whether that’s a pole or a person is a toss up. I love to dance, I used to be on my schools ballroom dance team but the timing didn’t work out this semester with other obligations. So I want to do some home workout videos with maybe some light weights. With my vision I can’t see what the people are doing on the screen well enough to follow along visually. So alls to say, does anyone have any workout channels they really like that are pretty descriptive, upbeat, and interesting? I like the ones that go along to music like music video style if that makes sense? I don’t know if these even exist but I figured I’d ask haha! Thanks!! 💛💛

I swear I feel like my canes have been breaking on me recently. I typically use amputech canes, but I noticed within the past year I've lost about two or three by them breaking on me via the band snapping. Does anybody know of a good quality cane? Hit me up with links or tell me if you think your canes also crabby

just curious. i've been taking about 12 credits per semester, so about 4 classes, but it's incredibly exhausting. i kinda wish i could take 2 or 3 classes instead, but i wouldn't get as much financial aid amongst other things.

I've been starting several jobs and all (even those at blindness organizations lol) have given me inaccessible onboarding paperwork. they're PDFs without edit boxes. how do y'all deal with this? (the blindness org has other blind employees; apparently I'm the first one to ever raise a complaint about this issue)

I've (successfully) asked for PDFs with edit boxes for the jobs at the blindness org but am realizing that people might not always honor my request (frustrating as it may be)

TIA!

Hey! Does anyone have any experience using a Brailliant BI 40x braille display with their computer, or know of any lists of commands?