Hi, I've been obliged to use a walking stick for a while now, and am actually learning how to use a proper white cane.

I need to buy one, they come with different tip and ball, cost a bit and are not refund in my country.

I know that I need a 145 cm one, unfortunately the association which has been helping me does not sell them, neither do they have several tips and balls to experiment with.

I still can see a bit, loosing it though, I love to walk, I most of the time walk in normal streets, but would sometimes walk in cobbled stoned streets, and as often as I can by the sea or in forest. Which cane or balls and tips would you recommend?

Does some of you like walking, hiking? Do you have any advises, tips? Do you use GPS like apps to help you?

I love and need to walk, and am afraid to not be able to hike any more, there are already some places I dare not to go alone any more...

Any advises would be appreciated, I'll read and answer, even if not quickly.

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Hey guys. I just bought a Google nest audio from eBay a few days ago. Still waiting for it to get here. The seller told me there is some cosmetic damage to the fabric part, stains, and small holes and such. I know this personally does not bother me because I’m not going to be staring at it, but do any of you feel the same way? Does cosmetic damage affect you at all? on the flipside, how much superficial damage is too much for you to feel comfortable with?

I was diagnosed with RP around eight years ago and I haven’t experienced major changes, at least not that I can remember.

I’d say in all, I’ve lost 45-65 percent of my vision and it’s close to 20/50 without glasses. My color perception is pretty good for the most part and I have some amounts of peripheral.

What about you all? I’m curious because my doctor told me six months ago that I should have had major changes in my vision by now, but I want to be prepared.

Also- I use the white cane regularly and have been learning Braille.

Hi, so I generally have bad eyesight -10 in both eyes and have a diagnosis of glaucoma, I've lost eyesight in my left eye it doesn't affect me though as of now, and might gradually get worse. I'm only seventeen.

What hobbies and things should I work on to be able to be independent? I dont want to end up having to be dependent on anyone.

Thank you

Hi

My father has significant macular degeneration. He is a heavy user of his computer but has the display on a very large font size and high contrast white on black display. This would be fine but he is using a screen which is not much bigger than a laptop. 17inch I think. So, very large fonts on a tiny display means …. nothing fits well on the screen.

I keep trying to convince him to get a larger screen (27inch maybe). He could keep the same large fonts but be able to navigate and understand what is on the screen much more easily.

But because of his macular degeneration the screen needs to be super bright. I tried plugging a big tv in but wasn’t bright enough and he refused to use it.

So, long story short, can anyone recommend a large and very bright computer screen/display suitable for someone vision impaired? The brighter the better. Any recommendations?

Thanks!

My grandmother in law's (84F) two hobbies have always been reading and doing jigsaws. Unfortunately, she has macular degeneration (AMD) so these hobbies are becoming harder, particularly reading.

She has a magnifying glass to read short bits of text, like cooking instructions, but she's not able to read books. I've looked into finding her large print books, but she loves this one series in particular where each book has approx. 900 pages. I downloaded Audible onto her phone with this book, but she says she keeps falling asleep so it doesn't work for her.

She says a charity brought in a device to her AMD which she liked because it wasn't clunky. From what she was describing I think it either magnified the text or projected it? Unfortunately, no one remembers the device being brought in.

Does anyone know a device which could help her? I love my GIL and I want her to be able to read for a long as can. Any advice is appreciated.

Lost one eye, may lose the other eventually to Glaucoma and I'm about to retire. What are good hobbies to take up now while I can still see OK that I can carry on with even if it gets worse?

Hello,

I'm a music composer with good experience with theory and composition, but I want to learn to play the piano.

I am totally blind and have access to a full-sized piano here. I have a little experience but it's difficult for me to quantify exactly how much. I want to self-learn more efficiently because I feel like my skill has been stagnant for years now.

If there are any apps, courses, or anything else that you would recommend then I would really appreciate it. I'd like to learn how to play jazz and to improvise.

Thank you!

Well, after longer than I expected, I finally got the victor reader and I am not very happy. For starters, I had to pay £40 in posting fees which I thought the seller had already done and when I finally got the device, there was a headphone jack stuck in the port so I couldn’t even hear what was going on and I couldn’t plug my own headphones into it. Anyone knows how I can get this broken headphone jack out, I would be very happy to hear your advice.

Im applying to grocery stores, fast food and warehouses now. I cantt seem to find a job

I am helping my best friend return to school, we have been working with the school with a recording device and I have added the zooming features so she can see her screen.

I was doing some research in some over the laptop tripod monitors and some glasses as well. I really do not want her to be discouraged by these challenges.

For the time being I am assisting by enlarging homework and printing it out in large print or she attaches her laptop to this huge monitor she has at home but this is neither viable nor portable. We have a lighted zooming lens but I feel something larger would be better but I do not experience life like she does so I am hoping to obtain some assistance in finding the right tool for her.

Thank you very much.

I did not start losing my eyesight until I was 40. I will be 64 years old, I usually say, young, on Sunday. I have never been afraid to work hard, be determined. I know people who are blind, and are so afraid to go out by themselves, or do anything by themselves. The only way that that could be overcome, is to start doing it. Take a walk by yourself. Make sure you have mobility training. Right now I have mobility training, I am learning to walk to the grocery store, which is next to my complex. by the end of August, I will be able to walk into the store, and walk back home with my groceries by myself. I cannot wait. I am going to have a celebration for that. Don’t let fear win.

Hi there, I'm wondering what do you guys do for a living, I'm 23, and I had to drop out from my college due to my vision gotten worst. I know physical work that are involving precision and outdoor are no go for VI, I think i just wasted my past few years due to it. But I felt i do really need to start doing some work to substance myself. Really thankful if you could share your stories or experience / recommendation on what i can do to earn some income with my current sight 🙏

so, I hesitated to do it, but I decided to put a post up on our dating to see what kind of response I would get. Basically an idea of who I was, and the fact that I was almost completely blind, and I didn’t want to give up on looking for a relationship, and really didn’t want to go on a dating apps because they sounded absolutely horrendous. The response was, as I had feared, even less than I had feared. One person responded to my post. It seemed to me that people couldn’t even take the time to respond and maybe even give the old inspirational adage as they like to do. The woman that did respond so nice, was more curious about how I was able to text, and was concerned about vision problems she might face as she gets older.

so I guess I got my answer. I have pretty much adjusted to life on my own, but had hopes that the situation might change. Not much proof out here to show me that that might be the case.

Anyone have any tips for getting an annoying fly or other similar insect to either go away or die if I can't see it to swat it or capture it? I know there are fly tapes and such, but does anyone have any clever tricks they use?

Programmers, I have a question for you. I am trying to learn Python, but Jupyter Notebook is an unbelievable hassle. Are there any better applications I can use that are accessible with voiceover? Thanks!

I was recently recognized by the state as legally blind and am on disability for it. The nurse of my eye doctor just called to tell me my eye doctor, who's also a retinal specialist, won't sign the form cause I'm not blind. I've never had a license. But I want the pass for family who drives me. I have paperwork from the state saying I'm legally blind. When I told her this, she just kept repeating herself. I'm pretty confused and new to how this all works. Can anyone offer some insight?

Hey, anybody have experience as a coder with a visual impairment? I have a friend that is interested in learning more, he knows more than basics already but needs more, but accessible.

Hello guys. I have barely any vision in my left eye but I still have enough to play game consoles and watch TV. Is there a device I can buy that will allow me to hear what setting is being read out to me through optical character recognition or some sort of artificial intelligence system so I don’t have to look so close to read the settings and writing that is being displayed to me on the screen? I was thinking of some sort of HDMI passthrough box with a speaker on it that will read out the writing that has been recognised through the HDMI signal. Sorry if this is a bit complicated.

I was trying to microwave a snack and the instructions were impossibly small. Normally, I would take a picture of the instructions and zoom in to read them but today I asked my smart glasses to read the direct to me and it was perfect.

I'd love to add a picture for reference but that's not an option on this screen.

I am a blind high school student preparing for college, and I'm wondering what cities would be a good place to live; my criteria includes walkability, availability of disability services, and cost of living. As for college, as long as the school in question has a good Disability Services Office and is in an accessible, disability-friendly city, I am ok with that.

Hello all. I was wondering if someone could tell me the difference between user flairs or regular flairs? I want to submit a post to another community. They want me to adopt a user flair. I am using dystopia, redditForBlind, the reddit IOS app. I looked at another question like this but nothing said what these are. There was a post that said, stickied, but I lost it. Thank you very much.

I'm pretty sure I remember reading about someone getting help from someone who was more than just a volunteer through BeMyEyes. By this I mean someone who could be trusted to read something like a legal document. Is there a procedure for getting this kind of help from the service?

this app is free and works great!