#vision impairment

[the-delta-quadrant]

i need the time blindness people and the gender blindness people to finally understand that you're not fucking exempt from

"stop using vision impairment as a metaphor"

#blind #actually blind #partially blind #half blind #partially sighted #sight impaired #sight impairment #vision loss #vision impairment #vision impaired #visually impaired #visual impairment #low vision #blindness #disabled #disability #cripplepunk #cripple #crip

[zebulontheplanet]

I want people to understand this, not every person who is blind or can’t read uses a screen reader. Some people don’t use them. Some people rely on other people to read for them, some people rely on magnifying apps. Some people just avoid the internet. There are multiple reasons for this, some people don’t like screen readers. Some people don’t find them helpful. There are so many reasons someone doesn’t use a screen reader.

I know someone with alexia who doesn’t use a screen reader because she doesn’t like them. She depends on other people, and she’s happy with that. That’s great!

#zebrambles #screen readers #alexia #blind #vision impairment #reading disability

[sunnysam-my]

"Hazbin Hotel palet isn't that bad" "They just wanted to keep the theme of crimson red"

Dude, during beginning of "Happy Day In Hell" I had to put on my old glasses (my glasses were broken) and keep them, because Alastor literally disappeared into the carpet and walls of the hotel and Angel's hands into the sofa. I don't even want to know how hard this is to watch for people with eye disorders that can't be corrected with glasses.

What I saw:

BTW Charlie is in both of those pictures. Can you spot her?

And those edit aren't even that well made, in reality it blends even more, just not in a way blurr effect does it, but it's hard to make a stimulation of bad eyesight with a simple, free editing program and no experience.

Clear screenshot:

I couldn't find any online simulator that would allow me to change my own picture, but I found this good simulator of myopia (nearsightedness). That's not all I have, but you can see what I mean when I say it blends more without being blurry.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel criticism #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel critique #vision impairment #bad eyesight #vivziepop #helluva boss

[elevator-to-mars]

PUT ALT TEXT / IMAGE DESCRIPTION ON YOUR IMAGES

IM FUCKING SICK OF CRIPPLEPUNK BLOGS NOT PUTTING ALT TEXT/IMAGE DESCRIPTION

#robin rambles #angry cripple #vision loss #vision impairment #farsightedness #fnd vision #cpunk #cripple punk #cripple posting #c punk #crip punk

[brettdoesdiscourse]

Yall. By definition, glasses ARE a disability aid because vision impairment is (by definition) a disability. Anything that aids a person's disability is a disability aid.

If a person with a vision impairment is not wearing their glasses, they will have a harder time navigating the world around them. If a person with a physical disability that requires a cane does not have their cane, they will have a harder time navigating the world around them.

Disability definition for anyone who wants it: a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities.

a disadvantage or handicap, especially one imposed or recognized by the law.

#please feel free to add something on #if you think i missed something #but my mind is pretty made up #social discourse #vision impairment #disability #disability aid #disability discourse #brett does discourse

[burntoutuserboxes]

[This user has vision impairment.]

#vision impairment #vision #physical health #this user is #userboxes #userbox #dark userboxes #black userboxes #black aesthetic #dark aesthetic #;q

[iamamythologicalcreature]

Can I be real for a second?

I’ve gone back and forth in my head about whether or not to post about this very real side of me online or not. There’s nothing shameful about being disabled, but I don’t want to be known as my disability, either. I don’t want that to be my identity.

But I’m hoping to post some of my writing tomorrow for Six Sentence Sunday. Post something I’ve written, albeit just a small bit, online where anyone can see it. It will be the first time I’ve done so since the car accident three years ago. And the truth is, the terrible truth is, my writing is what hurts the most.

Stories have always been a part of my life. They have always been my motivation, why I slogged through everything else - my reason for existing. I wrote novels and hoped to publish, and I fell in love with the writing community and made it my home. I volunteered and organized events. I created an extremely successful and fulfilling teen writing club where I taught creative writing. I was in love with stories, and writing them. I have never not been in love with stories.

(Before I was a writer I was an artist. I’m not going to go into that part of my life in detail, but it was just as heavily affected.)

At the beginning of 2020 I was in a car accident. The driver at fault was pulling out of a bar parking lot in the middle of the day. Make of that what you will. The accident he caused left me with more than a few issues, but for this post I’m focusing on the vision impairment.

Because of COVID, I wasn’t able to seek any diagnosis or treatment until June. I didn’t even begin physical therapy until August. Due to a myriad of issues and unfortunate reasons, I couldn’t complete my treatment. That meant a year and a half of work and struggle went down the drain.

This continues to affect me in many ways. Sometimes it’s things that you might expect - I can’t read Tumblr, or books, most days. Some limitations are less obvious, like how I’m afraid to ask questions (e.g. “what kind of car did Fiona drive?”) because the resources to find the answers myself are out there. Why don’t I just google it? Or reference that amazing spreadsheet someone did? Why am I asking other people to do the work for me? Am I just lazy?

People don’t mean to judge (and I’m sure there are plenty who don’t). But my issues aren’t apparent, so they won’t know unless I take the time to explain it. Able-eyed people should be able to find these simple answers. Just look in the book.

So I don’t ask. Or I apologize a lot for asking. Because it’s just too hard to explain why I need such basic help. (And sadly, some people still don’t believe me and treat me as thought I’m making excuses.)

I lost most of my friends simply for being unable to chat online, particularly during lockdown. I kept three people in my life - the three people willing to break with their comfort zones and talk to me on the phone instead of via text or chat. Those people probably saved my life. I know everyone went through isolation issues in 2020. But I went through them unable to even use a computer or read a book.

Since I’m typing this, you can guess that I’ve recovered somewhat, or made some accommodations that help. Yes. I have. Both of those. But I still have more bad days than good. Typing too long, or playing a phone game, surfing Tumblr - anything done for too long can break my eyes and send me back into total isolation for days.

I was a really good writer. I would regularly write 10-20k every weekend, and I wrote well. I wrote great stuff. (Rough drafts are always rough drafts, but I felt good about what I wrote.) I would sink into a character and go for hours.

Here’s the part that’s relevant to me now: I can’t do that anymore. I can’t write for hours, I can’t take the time to slip into character. I’m doing really well if I can pound out a speedy 1k in 30 minutes and have it not break my eyes. (It usually breaks my eyes.)

If you’re a writer, though - or any kind of creative - you know that the need doesn’t just go away.

(I have tried to record notes on my phone, but I just cannot dictate writing fiction. Only my fingers know how to speak well, and in character. And no, I’m not going to learn braille. It would not be helpful.)

So I’m going to try to write. It’s going to suck, because the things I did to write well before are things I can’t do anymore. I will cry. And then I will wait a week or however long it takes for my eyes to chill the fuck out, and I’ll try again.

(I’ve also started treatment again, just this month. I have to start at square one again, which means it will get worse before it gets better. It will take time, and money - lots of both. Like years. But I can’t give up.)

Anyway. This is why I chose the Simon Snow fandom to try again, for the first time in forever. Because that’s the story, and those are the characters, and these are the people. I know it. So. Hi.

#this is real #some real me stuff in between the fun fandom fluff #reality of disability #actually disabled #vision impairment #keep on #carry on #simon snow series #fandom community #open for voice chat cause really... #questions accepted here #gulp here I go posting now

[yellowcakeuf6]

Just had two attacks of this vision impairment which is apparently called scintillating scotoma. It scared the sh*t out of me as I also had one last week which made me feel really dizzy and nauseous. I've not had it before so I'm headed for the optician tomorrow

#vision impairment #flashing lights #scary shit #I'm off to lie down

[solarianvoidthearoace]

By this question I mean, if your eyes are, for example, -0.25 and -1.50, your difference is 1.25, so you’d click that

Another example: if your eyes are -0.75 and +0.25 you’d have 1.0 dpt in difference

If you’re comfortable, share in the tags which option you clicked

Please reblog for sample size? I’m curious

#my difference between eyes used to be 4 dpt #now I’m down to 2.25 dpt difference #my bad eye has been at over 7 dpt for years and the other one is now ‘catching up’ #vision impaired #vision impairment #glasses #contact lenses #bad eyesight #bad vision #eyesight impairment

[oddarette]

Why yes, I do be a member.

#My art #my animation #Illustration #vision impairment #artists of tumblr #eyes #I am a noob an animation

[the-delta-quadrant]

i'm so fucking tired of the "i'm legally blind without my glasses" crowd.

they insist of labelling themselves as a shitty gatekeepy term and can't even be bothered to do actual research.

there's no such thing as "legally blind without glasses".

"legally blind" doesn't mean "vision is corrected with glasses". legally blind doesn't mean "can't drive without glasses". legally blind doesn't mean "having slightly less vision than 20/20".

legally blind means having a visual acuity of 20/200 (or 6/60 or 10%) or less WITH glasses or another correction.

like bitch, i most likely have less vision than you and not even i would fall under legally blind. shut the fuck up.

these people literally always, always, always end up using their supposed legal blindness to talk over vision impaired folk. they're always like "i'm legally blind but my glasses help me see like everyone else". bitch no. you're sighted and you need to stay in your fucking lane. if your glasses help you see "like everyone else" it sounds like you got 20/20 vision and aren't VI, let alone legally blind, for fuck's sake. yes, the fact that you can't see without glasses makes you disabled. no, you do not get to speak over VI people.

i'm fucking tired of this "legally blind but can see fine with glasses" crowd acting like because they're "legally blind" that they're somehow the authorities on vision impairment. they talk about how vision impairment is an accepted disability because glasses are decently accepted, completely ignoring HOW FUCKING MARGINALISED VI PEOPLE ARE, HOW WE'RE LITERALLY EXCLUDED EVERYWHERE, including probably that conversation because of how inaccessible social media can be to us.

i'm fucking tired of people insisting on using a shitty government disability word that isn't even theirs just to use it to speak over those who are struggling in ways they couldn't even imagine.

i recently saw this autistic person who said they're "legally blind but can see like everyone else with glasses". and they went on to talk about how vision impairment is so much more accepted than autism.

like yeah. yours maybe. because yours consists of wearing glasses and that's it. you have no idea what it's like to have actually low vision.

stop using your privilege to misuse terms and spreading misinfo on a) what legal blindness is and b) how accepted VI people are.

like, this person literally used their fake legally blind status to make a point about autism not being accepted.

THEY COULD HAVE FUCKING DONE THAT WITHOUT THROWING ANOTHER MARGINALISED PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS.

sighted people are gonna see that shit and believe it. and they did! most of the comments were agreeing. there were two other VI people talking about the misinformation. out of 127 comments!!!!!

and wait for it: THEY LITERALLY POSTED A REEL WHERE THEY WERE DRIVING! you are NOT allowed to drive with 20/200 vision. oh wait, you fucking lied about being legally blind

like literally so much of my trauma stems from the LACK OF ACCEPTANCE for my vision impairment. but sure sighted person with glasses, tell me more about how socially acceptable we are!!

#disabled #cripplepunk #cripple #crip #disability #vision impairment #vision impaired #visually disabled #visually impaired #visual impairment #low vision #blind #actually blind #blindness

[garadinervi]

Blindenonderwijs : Blind jongentje oefent met braille op een school voor blinden, Amsterdam, 1920 [Spaarnestad Photo, Den Haag]

#photography #braille #blindness #vision impairment #structure #spaarnestad photo #1920s

[highfantasy-soul]

Accessibility for those with limited sight:

Important Notice

Did you know that scrolling through Tumblr sucks for people with limited sight?

I was introduced to adding Alt text on images and gifs through some mutuals on Twitter who use screen readers and I thought I'd share how important it is here on Tumblr as well! I know we all love our photo dumping, our gifsets of favorite characters, memes galore, even aesthetic mood boards filled with images, and there's a way to make sure everyone is able to experience those awesome parts of Tumblr!

Many people with limited sight use screen readers that read off to them what's written on screen. If you're a fan of Marvel, think Matt Murdock's phone that calls out "Foggy Foggy Foggy" to let him know who's calling, and all those lawyer scenes where he's listening to something - that's probably a screen reader reading the case files to him!

When using something like that, if the reader comes to an image, it simply reads out 'image'. No descriptor, no indication of what that image might be, and if you post a lot of images or comment on the image in your post, it's very confusing to those using a reader and makes the site about unusable. Especially if there is post after post filled with images. You scroll through your dash and hear 'image image image image image image image' and that's, like, not fun.

But there's a way to help! When you post an image, there are three little dots that appear at the bottom of the pic or gif that you can click and add an image descriptor! So you just type in a line or two describing what the image is, then when someone's screen reader gets to your image, they'll get to hear that description! That way, those using screen readers can still be a part of the conversation as we riff on the images and make comments about how hot a character is or how silly we find a meme.

I just learned about this recently, but I think it's really important to help people feel welcome and have access to the same information and experience with the app those with sight have. So, next time you're posting an image, think about adding some alt text or an image id!

If the image/gif is already posted and you want to reblog, consider adding a comment under it with brackets that says [ID: describe the visual media end ID]. It's not the best option as there are usually tons of comments above that descriptor so those on screen readers don't know what those comments are referencing until the very end, but it's an option we can go with until everyone is using alt when they make the initial post.

If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading all of this!

#accessibility #vision impairment #low sight #blind #blindness #disabilities #disability #disability rights #marvel #mcu #fandom #alt text #image description #star wars #supernatural #doctor who #sherlock #merlin #tumblr #gifs #gif

[luckydiorxoxo]

For the first time in @britishvogue's history, Edward Enniful is pleased to share that the magazine is now available in Braille.

The Braille file of the issue at home for free, or to register your interest in receiving a physical Braille copy,

email:

[email protected]

#British vogue #edward enninful #braille #vision impairment

[cripple-council]

• this user uses glasses •

[id: a dark purple userbox with a black border, to the left there’s is a picture of a pair of glasses, to the right is black text reading: “this user uses glasses”.

#this user #userbox #cripple punk #crip punk #cripplepunk #physical disability #physically disabled #c punk #cpunk #disability aids #glasses #impaired vision #vision impairment

[hussyknee]

How To Copy Text Off An Image In 4 Clicks

You don't have to be vision-impaired for alt text to make A LOT of difference. So many images are so much more readable in alt text. Here's an example:

Copying the text from an image is much less of a bother than you'd think. Here's how to do that.

1) Open the screenshot or picture, and select "Share".

2) Then select "Search image"

3) Select the "Text" tab, then "Select all". You can also use the cursor to select individual blocks of text.

4) Now select "Copy text".

5) Now paste to a notesapp or word document.

The most bother after that is the character limit in the alt text box. This may mean you have continue the alt text in the body of the post, or crop the pic into separate parts to fit the alt text.

Yes, it's more complicated than just reblogging or posting, but the more you do it, the more it becomes second nature. It's true only a minority is vision impaired, but a) you are also probably a minority in some spaces and b) seeing alt text makes ALL disabled people feel valued. Accessibility is a human right.

#disability #accessibility #tumblr how to #alt text #vision impairment #blindness #accessibility tools #PLEASE BOOST #tumblr culture #knee of huss