#orientation and mobility

[krtart]

Writing Blind & Visually Impaired Characters

A while back, someone asked me if I could share some of the resources I use. I figured maybe other people might find it useful as well! ^_^ Due to computer switches I could only trawl through the last ~5 years of research, but it’s still a fair collection.

(Obligatory disclaimer: I am not visually impaired! I just try to listen to people who are. The vast majority of these are written by and/or for people with visual impairments.)

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Vocab

American Printing House key definitions — Wayback machine

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Blogs, posts, essays, and speeches by folk with visual impairments

General sites:

Mimzy Writing Online (masterpost for writing blind characters) — Wayback machine

Where’s Your Dog — Wayback machine

Albinism Up Close — Wayback machine

Specific posts:

Why blindfolding yourself is misleading:

NFB member John Pere’s video & transcript — Wayback machine

Graduate researcher Arielle Silverman’s video & transcript — Wayback machine

Blind physician — Wayback machine

Missing eye / monocular vision — Wayback machine

Driving with albinism — Wayback machine (chronological series of posts, next post link is at the bottom)

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Posts of unknown/mixed authorship

Writing blind characters (tumblr thread) — Wayback machine

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Sighted guidance

How to Be a Sighted Guide by Vision Loss Resources — Wayback machine

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Long cane use

Care and Feeding of the White Cane: Instructions in Cane Travel for Blind People by Thomas Bickford, hosted on the NFB website — Wayback machine

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Orientation and Mobility

This is the term for specific training around navigating the world with a visual impairment. It will be a useful search term for you.

Additionally, I have purchased the O&M training course Step By Step that was published by the American Printing House. The actual video training modules are incredibly clunky to navigate through, and personally I’ve never had the patience. I’m also not comfortable redistributing their whole product like that.

But… the pdf study guides from the program are useful on their own, and those I will share! (Especially since they used to be available for free on the APH website. >_>;)

These are from the second edition.

O&M Training study guides (Internet Archive access)

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Careers

American Printing House career connect — Wayback machine

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Cooking

NFB: Suggestions for the Blind Cook — Wayback machine

APH: Safe Cooking Techniques — Wayback machine

BBC: Article about a blind Master Chef contestant — Wayback machine

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Visualization tools

For remnant sight and color blindness.

Visual acuity simulator — Wayback machine (icons at the top switch between vision charts & illustrative photos, bar at the bottom adjusts acuity)

Color blindness simulator — Wayback machine

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Thinking about disability

These aren’t specifically about visual impairment, and include other physical disabilities as well as autism.

But they’re important voices to hear, and can be useful for framing your understanding and general approach.

"Don't Mourn For Us" by Jim Sinclair — Wayback machine

“Confessions of a Bitter Cripple" by Elizabeth Barnes — Wayback machine

"If you can do X, why can't you do Y?" by Mel Baggs — Wayback machine

People can adapt to and accommodate for more than you might think (tumblr thread) — Wayback machine

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And finally, some related tags on my personal blog: Disability | Disability rights | Writing resources: disability | Accessibility

#writing blind characters #blindness #visual impairment #blind characters #representation in fiction #writing resources #orientation and mobility #can you tell that I’ve been v. sad about masterposts with broken links in the past sldkfhsdg #the wayback machine isn’t a perfect solution but it’s better than nothing. Anyway! Please let me know if any of these links seem broken! #long canes #sighted guides #krtart #resources #masterposts #krt talks

[bengalaas]

Human Echolocation for the Blind

#this is amazing #human brain is awesome #human echolocation #disability #blindness #orientation and mobility #beng is learning things #Youtube

[fieldtomatoes]

Dancing in vintage National Geographics

physical collage (full image under the cut)

#decided to break in two bc I know the landscape orientation ends up quite small on mobile #this way you can get a close up look easier :) #also I have more than enough clipping to do a second dancing collage but I think I’m gonna do commensality next #nat geo collages #people dancing #corynn.txt

[robobrainmurdermysterytheatre]

My favorite Fallout guy in case anyone forgot - my sole survivor Jack Daniel O'Kelley 💚 I gave him a new face texture and he looks really good 🙏

#fallout 4 screenshots #sole survivor #portrait oriented images look bad on pc #but they're going to be perfect on mobile #i tell myself as i review this post on my laptop lol

[be-bisexual-eat-hot-chip-and-lie]

hercule poirot being badass with his cane is making me feel badass adjacent as a new cane user

#murder on the orient express #hercule poirot #agatha christie #cane user #mobility aid

[inyujidraws]

Hey thanks to everyone the past 2 months who watched me livestream working on the Owl House sticker designs and wallpapers. I've already ordered stickers which I'll put on my Etsy. I'll announce those when they arrive.

You can buy the pack on Ko-fi or my website

#owl house #hanbok #korea #oriental #desktop wallpaper #mobile wallpaper #owl house fanart #luz noceda #amity blight #owl house willow #owl house gus #owl house hunter #owl house eda #owl house king #hooty #owl house luz #owl house amity

[emirgegicphotoblog]

There will be light

Taken by Emir Gegić

Sony Nex 6 + Helios 44-4

#novi pazar #srbija #balkan #sandzak #serbia #helios #photography #mobile photography #montenegro #mosque #quran #holy quran #holy book #vintage #arabic #arabic language #crna gora #stari bar #light photography #oriental

[ikemenfangirl]

Helix Waltz 2 Rose Wars “Night Hunting Feast” event (Dress up game)

เกม: Helix Waltz 2 สงครามกุหลาบ

อีเวนต์: คืนแห่งการออกล่า

เริ่ม: 1 สิงหาคม

The day of the moon is approaching, and a mysterious force is silently covering the night sky on the outskirts of Rosala.

Until the bright moon was covered, the protection also disappeared, and the devil came back to the world.

They thirst for blood, they live with despair and horror, and they live with the desire to kill.

Gone like a ghost before the sun rises.

Only the whole wasteland soaked in wreckage and blood was left...

Game : Helix Waltz 2 Rose Wars

Event: Night Hunting Feast

Start: Aug. 1

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Title: Helix Waltz 2 : Roses War (螺旋圆舞曲2蔷薇战争)

By: Crossingstar

Language: Chinese

Platform: iOS, Android

Website: https://www.lxywq2.com/

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คืนแห่งจันทร์ใกล้มาถึง และพลังลึกลับก็ปกคลุมท้องฟ้ายามค่ำคืนอย่างเงียบ ๆ ที่ชานเมืองโรซาล่า

จนกระทั่งดวงจันทร์ที่สว่างไสวถูกปกคลุม การปกป้องก็หายไป และปีศาจก็กลับมายังโลก

พวกเขากระหายเลือด มีชีวิตอยู่ด้วยความสิ้นหวังและสยองขวัญ และคงอยู่ด้วยความปรารถนาที่จะเข่นฆ่า

พลันหายไปเหมือนภูตผีก่อนดวงอาทิตย์ขึ้น

เหลือเพียงพื้นที่รกร้างว่างเปล่าที่โชกไปด้วยซากปรักหักพังและเลือด...

เกมแต่งตัวผสมผสานเนื้อเรื่องและภาพประกอบงดงาม Helix Waltz 2 สงครามกุหลาบ (เซิร์ฟจีน)

DOWNLOAD

🔗 iOS : https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/id1638886571 (Chinese Store)

🔗 Android:

TapTap：http://t.cn/A6xCz9lX

bilibili： http://t.cn/A6XCYJBh

#mobile game #เกมแต่งตัว #เกมสำหรับผู้หญิง #Game of Girls #female oriented games #เกมหนุ่มหล่อ #Helix Waltz 2 #헬릭스왈츠 #螺旋圆舞曲2

[pepprs]

june 27th give it up for june 27th

#purrs #delete later #sure would be an INFINITELY more special and auspicious day if there wasn’t going to be • thunderstorms all day • a budget meeting • two #back to back orientations where i am going to have to take on 2X THE FACILITATION ROLESSSSS 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 bc we’re doing that now. LMFAOOOOOO #<- and by that i mean splitting up the facilitation so instead of 4 ppl shari ng responsibility for talking AND doing logistics there’s 2 #ppl talking and 2 ppl doing logistics. and mutuals need i remind you that facilitating this specific session requires being extremely high #energy and mobile and getting ppl ‘hyped’ and there are 383729473 reasons why that is difficult for me to do in front of 100+ new students #plus three cofacilirators i am scared of / intimidated by for various reasons. im going to be sick soooo genuinely. i HATE this 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #anyways yeah. today is my one year anniversary and also my first day as an fte so. 🫠 and one year ago today was pretty awful too like my #first day was actually extremely extremely bad and i cried like multiple times every day that week bc it kept getting worse so. love how #things have changed so substantially since then and the things that triggered me on that day aren’t an issue anymore <3 (they are very much #still an issue it’s just the specific people involved have changed bc half the ppl working here including one of my dearest closest #mentors who was deeply involved in that situation have left the university and now it is utterly unrecognizable and every day i wake up in #an alternate universe i know deep down i am not supposed to be in and yet im trapped in it irreversibly and this IS my universe now. lolll 🥰 #)) also ik it’s stupid to still be grieving over this but like. the entire way it all went down + the fact that it even did in the first #place and the STAGGGERING consequences of it. are kind of insane. every new development makes me feel more and more like im living in a fake #reality and nothing that is happening is supposed to be happening and im dreaming it all but it’s a bad dream. and idk how to accept #that this is NOT. a dream and that what happened happened and now i have to live with it and stop curling in on myself like a prey animal an #and isolating myself from everyone i love and taking every single conceivable situation badly. like tfw da therapy isn’t working 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 #anyways i need to go get ready and practice the fucking 16 page facilitation guide 🙄 see u on the other side lol

[flourescencia]

so funny to live in a third world country because if I start thinking of the future it makes me worried sick to the point I can cry and it ruins my morning so I just have to leave it alone or the rage kills me

#need to join a group oriented towards mobilizing or something because the things this government #does are unbearably appalling and what makes me angriest of all is that there's hardly any protests at all #and what's worse because he is one populist dog shit idiot piece of dirt he always has so many people defending him #txt.me

[lemonlurkrrthinksthisstuffiscool]

can restaurants go back to having their allergen/nutrition guides just be a big table. a big pdf i can download. or just a chart of some sorts. drop downs suck i really don't like having to click/tap every single menu item to see if there's nuts in there.

#mobile oriented design agony agony agony #I can't even ctrl+f for peanuts cause it's all hidden!! in the dropdown!!!! #the design is fine if you're curious about a couple of menu items but I'm Quite The Opposite #food allergies suck would not recommend lmao

[bostonbakeddeans]

ngl i am. very salty that my place of employment, a frigging HOSPITAL, has ONE (1) accessible parking spot for employees. and with the new patient pavilion opening, that spot is in the "patients only" section of the employee parking lot. (yeah it didn't make sense to me either.) i shouldn't have to wave my cripple card at security to be allowed to even see if there's parking for me, and there should be MORE THAN ONE SPOT.

i parked in the parking garage, which actually has, wonder of wonders, more than a single accessible spot... but it's technically for visitors and patients, not for employees, so i still have to waggle my cripple card at the security guard to be able to park - AND it's a significantly further walk to where i work in the hospital from the parking garage, which, y'know, not fun if im having a bad pain day. like today.

#maybe when the new patient pavilion actually opens and we get everything sorted out there will be a higher number of accessible spaces #but i kind of doubt it #very little in the employee-only portions of the hospital is at all accessible #and there is little in the employee orientation that takes into account disabilities #for example: our handwashing team was like ''we're watching for proper hand hygiene'' and there's no direction #on what to do if you use a mobility aid #whether or not you're patient-facing! #anyways i think im going to try and sit down with my managers to figure out who we bring these concerns to #they're very responsive and i love them very much

[melisaaaaaa]

this is a horrible layout for a desktop website, jesus christ.

#tumblr #what the fuck #why is this so mobile oriented #im on a desktop #argh

[inklingofadream]

periodic reminder that 4thewords is great :) never timed well bc it never occurs to me to say this in november when they offer a month of free subscription time, but! it is making the process of catching up on polychives more satisfying. finishing this chapter is like fighting a literal beast, rather than a metaphorical one, because for $4 a month (or slightly less, I buy the end of year bundle) 4thewords will provide Beasts

#writing #polychives au #ink post #it's possible they offer trial periods other times of year but i dont remember #not digging up my referral code but if you do want to try them using it will award us both perks in game #it's like. 80-90% great. the not great is slight jank on mobile/during site updates you get with any smallish enterprise #and also a definitely non-zero amount of orientalism. not equipped to estimate how much? #bc i've been stalled on the main quest for a while lol. and have been in the Orientalism Zone of the map for a while #basically any white author fantasy doorstopper with a 'desert' culture/country/etc if you need a ballpark #yknow the scarves/veils genre of Sexy Woman in visual media? she's here as a monster which isn't NOT stigmatizing #but i'm not equipped to make the call on like. how bad it is. bc my knowledge ends at spotting a Likely Yikes scene dressing #you fight 'good' or friendly characters as monsters but theyre usually specifically 'infected' when humanoid #whereas this may or may not be the case. i think theyre directly affiliated with the big bad/its army iirc #and it mostly seems p bad bc like. they're quite good with most other representation boxes. #pride month events textually queer characters visibly disabled characters as cool mentor types etc #so the weak areas feel more grating

[rincewindsapprentice]

Oh gods they changed desktop view so it looks like a fucking mobile site I hate this I hate this I hate this

#I hate how claustrophobic current website design is #so that everything is fucking mobile-oriented #there's a damn app! #the desktop experience should be different!!! #guess this pushes me to get XKit Rewritten finally #(I still have old New XKit)

[spacekrue]

who wants to give me the comfort of mains ?

#mobile. #i want to be super plot orientated #gotta build the juicy stuff