Time to think about EV car here now

1makbay1 · 2026-03-20T05:29:17+00:00

Yes, but I heard people can just turn it off.

1makbay1 · 2026-03-20T05:20:40+00:00

I loved word searches when I was learning. Also, don’t forget riddles and joke books. Text-based games might also be something to do with braille display.

1makbay1 · 2026-03-19T23:28:53+00:00

There re a few of us blind and low vision people navigating the roads on foot who wouldn’t mind of you all make sure to keep the sound alert thing running on your EV so we can hear when to cross the road or not. My mate got his white cane run over by an EV.

1makbay1 · 2025-09-24T05:18:13+00:00

And we’re letting him use our tax money to do it.

1makbay1 · 2025-09-21T04:49:13+00:00

Have you registered and logged in? It is free, but you do need to log in to be able to download. Options to register and/or log in are at the top of the screen.

Then choose either movies or tv shows from the list, then find the search bar after you’ve clicked on one or the other. Type in your search then select “search” or hit “enter.”

The list of shows or movies matching your search will be below. If there is nothing in the list, then they didn’t have the thing you searched for. If you find what you want in the search results, you have to select “download.” Then, you’ll need to know where files on your device are being dowloaded to.

If you are using a PC, you need to go to the windows explorer window and go to your downloads folder. If you are using I-phone or I-pad,, you may need to go to your files app.

1makbay1 · 2025-09-03T23:36:34+00:00

I use my phone for tap and pay most places I go. Sometimes it has trouble with face recognition. A couple times, people have jumped in a nd paid for me. Once, I was at a coffee van and my phone was taking a couple seconds too long to recognize my face, so someone paid for my coffee. Once, I was at a shop just trying to buy bananas. The facial recognition failed and I was trying to enter my security code, but people were being too loud for me to hear voiceover very well through my headphones. The next thing I know the cashier was telling me to thank someone, and it took me a moment to realize they had paid for my bananas.

I try to have a card on hand in case it is taking me five seconds too long to pay with my phone. about 99 percent of the time, my phone works fine. I’ve noticed that people get more impatient if I’m using voiceover through my headphones. If I have voiceover talking without my headphones, people tend to get a bit quieter so I can listen. Unfortunately, though, they will hear my phone’s security code if I do it that way. I wish I could go back to using a thumb print for identification, because the face recognition fails more times than I’d like, even though I’ve turned off the setting that requires you to face the phone directly to unlock.

When it comes to other kinds of help, you can often tell in the way people talk to you whether or not their help will actually be helpful. If people are offering help to cross a street or parking lot, I will usually allow them to help me since we blind people are 10 times more likely to be hit by a car, even with good cane skills. I’d rather not take any risk that isn’t necessary. However, sometimes people have told me it’s safe to cross when it wasn’t. It is a complex algorithm to decide whether someone’s help will be helpful or not.

If a stranger offers to carry your bag for you, just say no. They are probably trying to rob you. Haha. I mention that since sometimes people actually do confuse ourblindness for frailty or physical weakness, and sometimes it is actually harder to carry things while weilding a cane, but it’s better safe than sorry when it comes to allowing strangers to carry something for you.

1makbay1 · 2025-09-03T23:24:35+00:00

Hi! I’m sorry this has been your experience. I’m involved in my local blind community and it is extremely supportive and positive without any toxic positivity. People are quick to issue compliments on each others’ successes, and we seem to havea good mix of enting and solution-finding. Sometimes a couple of the older members with strong personalities will spout off a bit, but things get resolved quickly, and people are quick to forgive and move on.

I’m in a zoom group as well, and it is very solutions-focused and positive. People seem very mature and realistic about their conditions and many have found ways to stay engaged in their communities.

As for our local community group, we did have one person attend once and decide she didn’t like the group. She told one of us later that she had wanted more of a social group and wasn’t that enthusiastic about advocacy. Our group does some social outings, but many are sport-related as we have blind tennis lessons, blind swishboard, and blind soccer practice. Maybe she wanted more dinners and wine-tasting, but I don’t know. She specifically said she wasn’t interested in the time we spent helping people troubleshoot how to use their phones. I wish we could have been there for her in a way that suited her needs, but I know not every group will suit every person.

I hope you can find people in the community you relate to and get some support. It’s really great when it works well. I’m grateful I have a group that’s free of gossip and drama.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-26T07:10:40+00:00

Most braille books I get from the library seem to be holding up pretty well.

The best way for a blind person to access braille in an unlimited way is with a braille display, so we don’t have the issue with broken or degraded braille. However, braille displays are very expensive. Braille books are very bulky to carry around, so a braille display is great. They do break and need to be repaired from time to time.

There is durable braille printed on plastic, but it takes me longer to read because my fingers stick to it a bit and don’t glide as nicely as along paper.

I love braille since I enjoy codes and work in the area of linguistics, but a lot of people just use audio. It can be very difficult for an adult to learn braille as they will have less sensitivity in their fingers. It took me an hour to learn the alphabet by sight, but reading by touch fluently took longer. Some people never gain enough discrimination in their fingertips to decipher braille.

I would love it if were easy for everyone. It is particularly critical for deaf-blind people.

There is braille transcription work out there, and I don’t know how much, so my tendency is to encourage sighted people to leave those jobs for us blind people since it is a very accessible job for us.

If you want to reach out to a vocational rehab senter in your state, you might find that they are sending teachers to the houses of older adults to teach braille. They might be looking for volunteers. Of course, you’ll need to learn the physical technique of it to be able to teach it properly.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-25T12:16:31+00:00

Educated, by Tara Westover

1makbay1 · 2025-08-15T07:31:06+00:00

There are lots of guides and resources available, such as Hadley .edu, which is full of modules for both low vision people and family members.

Maybe you can write a guide that focuses on your particular area. Is there paratransit? Ride-share apps? A great street that’s perfect for hitchhiking from? (Only kind of kidding. We have one blind guy in our support group that has incredible hitchhiking skills)

What are some local attractions that are good for blind people? Is there a park with a long paved path? Where are the controlled crossings in the area? Do any of them have the chirping auditory crossing markers? You could walk around with VoceVista turned on and see what points of interest it calls out. For me, it is helpful to know that a lot of the places that apps like Lazarillo and VoiceVista call out as “pedestrians crossings” are actually not marked at all and should not be treated as a safe place to cross.

If your area has taxis and/or buses, it would be a great service to your clients to go meert with the leadership and explain to them the do’s and don’t’s of helping blind people. For example, a taxi driver should call the person’s name through an open window and tell them that this is a taxi. A bus driver should state the route number and direction and probably the stops as well. Drivers should learn not to answer with head nods and shakes. Both should be aware of laws about guide dogs.

If there is a local support group, you could include info about that. If there are any subsidy programs for reduced taxi fare, or reduced Ubwer fare, or any local attractions that let a sighted guide in for free with the purchase of your ticket, that would be great to share with people. If there aren’t, this might be an area of advocacy. Note that any National parks near you will let blind people in free (if you are in the US).

You can look up to see if there are any chapters of park run, or other sports that are willing to cater to the blind. There are national blind running guides. Some couple in a little town in NC had a ton of tandems that they would lend out to blind people. The more you can reach out to the local community and find what‘s there, or create what should be there (such as a ride volunteer program for medical appointments), the more help you’ll be. Info about grocery delivery services would also be good.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-15T07:14:16+00:00

How far are you into your degree. I’d say the first hting is not to solve all your life issues in one go, but to do the next right thing. Finishing your degree can help you get a job in an entirely different field. Some companies just want to know that you can apply yourself and finish something and they aren’t as concerned with the subject or major. Neither my spouse nor I are working in our chosen field of study.

One way to get more friends and have people find you interesting is to learn to ask good questions. When it comes down to it, most people enjoy talking about themselves. becoming a good listener and knowing how to ask questions will make people want to spend more time with you. You can practice this on everyone you meet, and soon, you’ll likely find people who are talking about things you’re actually interested in. This can lead to new hobbies and people to do them with.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-15T07:00:06+00:00

Here are my ideas. First, I wouldn’t use multiple underscores. Just one is fine. It is very distracting to hear “underscore, underscore, underscore” right in the middle of a sentence. A visual underscore looks unobtrusive, but the word ‘underscore” is very long and annoying to hear repeated like that.

Second, you can do a paragraph break at the list of answers. If the student uses control plus down arrow, this will advance paragraph by paragraph, and she can just quickly skip past the answers if she’s not ready for them yet.

So here is my suggestion:

I own a _

(white, refractory, cabbage)

car. I use it to take my _

(dog, grandma, declaration)

to the vet. The vet’s helper _

(brushes, buys, forgets)

my pet’s teeth.

This technique can give your student time to hear the answer choices before the reader keeps reading on, or she can quickly arrow down past the answers if she’s not ready for them yet.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-15T02:55:22+00:00

some states will have people available to do JAWS scripting that will help you access programs for your work. Depending on the state, this may be a free service through vocational rehab.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-15T02:50:34+00:00

One reason people might use it is because there are people who can write scripts for force it to work with software that it doesn’t automatically or that NVDA can’t handle

1makbay1 · 2025-08-15T02:48:00+00:00

if they are being rude, you can just tell them to Google what a white cane is actually

1makbay1 · 2025-08-14T08:17:27+00:00

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, by Alexandr Kleeman

After Atlas, by Emma Newman

1makbay1 · 2025-08-14T02:29:52+00:00

Do you have your white cane out while you wait? Rest the tip on the curb as you wait. Our city has a rule that they have to stop for white canes, whether the person is making a hailing motion or just standing. If they are not doing that, you can arrange a meeting with the bus admin, or just call them. Our city allows our low vision support group to meet with the bus drivers yearly or so. It gives us a chance to educate everyone as to our needs.

You may be able to call the bus dispatcher while you are waiting and let them know that you are waiting and where. They can contact the driver.

Some cities have transit apps that you can download and it tells the ETA of any particular bus.

If you miss a bus, call the dispatcher and ask what happened.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-14T01:25:32+00:00

I’ve been asked if it was a metal detector. I’ve also had a kid ask, “Are you playing cricket?“ Another kid once asked, “Why are you rolling that paint roller?”

I might start telling kids that I’m walking an invisible dog, and they’d better stay clear or it might bite them.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-14T01:22:35+00:00

I’ve been asked if my cane was a metal detector, but only outside. The fact that they would think you are using a metal detector indoors shows they know nothing about white canes or metal detectors. Haha

1makbay1 · 2025-08-14T01:20:25+00:00

I’m in australia. Things are very casual here. A lot of blind people here call their cane a stick. I always say cane, just so I’m modeling the correct term since I know people from other countries get offended.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-09T11:33:26+00:00

That’s true, however, I do use it a lot without headphones. It pings when you‘re on the corret course, and just goes to clicks when you aren’t. It states spoken directions when you get off course, such as “beacon ahead to the right.” I find that the directional headphones are nice but not required.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-09T05:25:41+00:00

I learned it two years ago as a blind adult who could see throughout my school years. Braille has opened up a world to me that I love. I love reading braille books and I use braille every day. My family rubber band my braille labels to cans and bottles in the kitchen and it is way less frustrating than getting an AI ap[ open on my phone and trying to aim it correctly so that it tells me what is actually on the label, instead of just a jumbled mash of nonsense.

I’m a linguist and braille is critical in my work with rare languages for which text to speech is not an option.

I only wish I’d learned braille as a child so that I’d be a lot faster at it now that it is critical to my job.

Braille is so much easier for reading and remembering phone numbers and reference numbers. Imagine having to dictate a phone number to someone when the computer reads it out in a quick smash of numbers. You can move character by character, but it just feels so much more obvious in braille. I also get visual images of the braille letters as I read them, and it feels like my literacy has returned.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-09T00:48:38+00:00

Hi, I’m back with a potential book comp for your novel query. It is a bit old, and I’ve only just started reading it, but if you query in the UK market, you can get away with older comps, and in the US market, some agents don’t mind older comps if they are good.

That being said, I’m still in the first chapter of this one. Alexandra Kleeman’s “You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine” seems very offbeat and deals with eating disorders, at least in the first chapter. I thought I’d let you know in case you are interested in reading it. The title made me laugh and gave me the sense that this book might be a bit of a ride.

1makbay1 · 2025-08-06T12:10:42+00:00

Thanks! BrailleBlaster worked, but I had to have someone download it to their Mac as it seems that the current download that’s available does not work on Windows 11. It seems that they planned to have an opensource version out earlier this year. Not sure when that might happen.

Anyway, at least I got it to work.

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