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I’m debating between these two options, originally one was what I was going with but I’m kind of unsure at this point which would be better

1. move to a city that has a good bus system, is reasonably walkable in certain areas but I’ve never even there, don’t know anyone in the city (some family lives about 40 minutes away in the second city option) and doesn’t particularly have a lot of job opportunities for my industry.

2. move to a city where I have some family but doesn’t have good bus system. I could definitely use uber and I’m sure my family could help me out if I needed a ride somewhere and they had the time to do, i would likely get a remote or hybrid job and grocery delivery which covers a lot of what I would need transportation for.

im not really sure which one I should do, any suggestions? I want to be close to them so these are really the best choices I have

This is a rant, but for ontext, I am making ends meet, all my necessities are covered, but why do I feel the need not to complain, even though I really want to? I am a people pleaser, and that is my own fault, i know this. I currently take care of my mom who is in a wheelchair and showing signs of dementia. I live in a small retirement town. I have some friends here, but I can't go to them about my problems, because I know they don't know what to say and I don't want people I know to worry about me. But I am getting burned out, my life is not moving forward and there is no opportunity for me here, in a job or in relationships.

I feel like my friend's know my life sucks, and I put on a good face about it, but I don't want to bring them down, so I don't complain, but today is especially hard. I'm currently waiting in a queue to talk to a online crisis counselor, but it's taking forever, so there's Reddit. Thank you for reading this and I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense. I just needed to get this out.

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm curious to learn more about blind and visually impaired gamers from around the world.

I'd love to hear from you!

• 🌍 Which country or region are you from?
• 🎮 Do you enjoy playing games? If so, what kinds of games do you like?
• 📱 What devices do you usually play on? (PC, iPhone, Android, console, etc.)
• 🎧 What makes a game enjoyable or accessible for you?
• 💬 Do you usually play alone, or with friends online?
• 💰 Have you ever spent money on a game? If yes, what made you decide it was worth paying for?
• ⭐ If someone built a brand-new game designed specifically for blind and visually impaired players, what features would you most want to see?

I'm trying to better understand our community and learn what kinds of games people really enjoy.

Looking forward to hearing your stories. Thanks! ❤️

Hi, I finally switched from iPhone to a Pixel 10 after 6 years of using iPhones. The main reason was that I hate being trapped in an operating system where you can't install your own apps, you need a Mac for proper iOS development and so. And iOS 27 beta was enough to me. Those who beta test will probably know what I mean. So I bought the Pixel and have some screenreader issues now.

1. My Talkback is sometimes very slow. Most of the time it responds fine, but sometimes I swipe and it starts scrolling and I have to wait forever until scrolling is complete so it swipes down. With the Talk Forward screenreader, which I would use it it worked, this is not an issue.
2. In Talk Forward, when being in a keyboard and I swipe through the letters it just jumps where it wants. Talk forward only allows me explore by touch in the keyboard.
3. I bought the Acapela TTS voices, two of them, but can't really switch between them. In the system settings I can go to language and select a different voice, but then I disable the auto language switch. There must be a way to switch within the app.
4. When I connect my bluetooth speaker, Talkback talks through this speaker which causes a lot of latency. On iOS, this only happened with headphones. I really hope that someone has experience with this.

Hi everyone!

I am switching phones and one of variants i have is oneplus. it is a candidate because of snapdragon cpu and high speed, as well as unlocked bootloader. compared to google pixel, which runs on tencer chips which are slow and have thermal issues.

What i amm interested in:

if anyone uses it or have used it before, how accessible is the phone? I have used an ai to research, but human input is different. I red that talkback does not work well and has issues. what kind of issues exactly?

also, do stuff like image descriptions and these features work on phone?

if something does not work, have you found workarrounds? how easy is that?

how easy is it to remove system apps and manage the phone shinanigons?

how about screen curtain? on samsung for example with its version of talkback, it still displays some text. how about with oneplus?

how responsive does it feel day to day?

how about camera features like face detection and stuff?

keep in mind to provide as up to date as possible, please.

any input is really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I was diagnosed with retinitus pigmentosa when i was 19 (im now 28) but i noticed i had night blindness and would have trouble finding things/bumping into things before then. it's been around 9 years knowing i have it and it has become so exhausting. I still work but any of my ambitions in life have been destroyed. i still drive (i plan my entire route so i do not change lanes and refuse to drive at night unless it's a route i know very well (to and from work). it genuinely feels like my life is a nightmare. i always bump into others at work, everyone knows my visual impairment although i know they get frustrated about it but they all treat me nicely but i hate it so much. It hurts feelings completely alone causing problems for others. At a previous job i was transferred to a more quiet location only to find out my previous manager forced it because i kept bumping people. i've been pushed aggressively by people for accidently bumping them and yelled at. I do plan on going back to a psychologist/therapist soon but i wanted to know what are some ways you guys with RP cope?

Hello all!

I am hearing and sighted but just seeking some opinions and recommendations! Next week I am going rock climbing with my new Deafblind friend and I'm very excited. I'm pretty experienced with rock climbing, but I think they are relatively new to the sport. I was wondering if any of y'all had any suggestions for how I could help make them more comfortable during the experience and enjoy it as much as possible!

Also, I know some ASL (I am still learning, I definitely need to practice but thankfully they have been very patient with me), but I know they also use pro tactile ASL, so I was thinking maybe it would be helpful for me to learn a little, at least the very basics! Are there any free online resources where I could get a head start?

Lastly, I have not spent a lot of 1-1 time with any deaf blind people before, so if possible, it would be great to get any advice about what you all like and don't like when hanging out with hearing sighted people. Of course I will ask this person too about personal preferences and I'm sure I will make mistakes, but either way, it's good for me to think about.

Thank you so much for all of your help! Have a great day!

Hello! I have several .brf files downloaded from places like BARD that I would very much like to translate into common every day text that I can read with my screen reader. My fingers are just not as sensitive as they used to be, and even though I do have access to a Braille display, my fingers seem to get sore and a little tingly after what seems like a shorter and shorter time of braille reading. This is disheartening but I guess that's what I get for growing older. I'd like to still have access to this braille content however. A google search recommended Braille Blaster, which I've installed, but it doesn't seem to recognize the .brf files in the directory I'm pointing it to even though I can see them clearly in Windows Explorer, so I'm just not sure this app is going to do what I need it to do. I was wondering if anyone else had any ideas. Note that I'm not a braille transcriber or proofreader. I simply want to translate braille files into a format that I can read easily with Jaws or NVDA. Also, I'm unemployed and low income, so free options are best for me right now. Thanks in advance for any help.

I’m sure we all have regular daily occurrences of running into things we never saw

The bane of our existence, the wet floor sign

The partially open door that somehow avoids your hand yet connects with your face

The mannequin slightly a jar in the aisle that you run into then glare at because it didn’t accept your apology

But I ask you what are some of the more unusual things that you never saw coming yet met inevitably

This weekend I was walking with my father at Menards my dad isn’t usually somebody who I go around places with so he’s not as accustomed to tracking me or Me tracking him

I had my cane, but I could tell there was a person in the aisle, so I moved my cane to the side to avoid them, and I walked directly into a large support column that could very well have been holding up the entire building

I rang that shit like a damn bell or at least my head rang like a bow

It was one of those I saw stars and my head still hurts 48 hours later

Somehow, my head was turned just the right way that I did not break my glasses

I need to stop worrying about hitting people with my cane and focus focusing on protecting myself when I walk with ouch

I'm just curious about the folks here. I know that there are quite a few blind people within the mud community and over at r/muds. If so, which one do you all play? For me, I've been through many, but I've spent a lot of time at Aardwolf, Achaea and Alteraeon.

I hope this post isn't too long, and thank you for reading. I truly hope this does not get taken down. I don't know where else to go. There is no anxiety or stress, just looking for tips or thoughts.

Is there anyone here who is totally blind or has low vision, that went to college to get a masters degree? I am blind myself, so I am asking in this sub for that reason. The reason I don't know what to do now, is someone did the applying for me in the past. If you went to college, Did you succeed in your program? Was the program online, on campus, or hybrid? Where did you start with the application process? I'm trying to get into Western Oregon University. I already have my eye on a program. Again, I'm trying to go for my masters. I'm not really sure where to start. I don't want to just go and apply, but I'm not sure what to do first. Any tips, or advice, is greatly appreciated. And as always, please be respectful. I hope my post is clear. TLDR: I want to apply to Western Oregon university, and taking my blindness into account, I don't know what to do first before just jumping in and applying. Thank you.

Hi all. I am a swim teacher in England. I have many years experience with teaching babies right up to adults how to swim. I have a new child starting a 1-1 class with me who happens to be blind.
I was wondering if anyone had any stories about their own experiences with swimming lessons. Anything that they loved, didn’t love so much or found really helpful?

My vision loss is slow but steady along with my photophobia. I have no skills to speak of and a mental disability that makes it hard to process and learn, along with another that further impairs my ability to function as a person. I have a degenerative physical disability that will end with my back collapsing, and another that affects my joints.

My current job is as a provider. I work little hours and not even for the whole year.

I currently have a case with VR that hopefully will get me a diagnosis to get services from a different agency. I am currently in the process of being approved for O&M with a non-profit since the workforce refused me on the grounds of having a job already and that job not requiring blind specific skills.

I will make plans to have the VR find me a job once I can no longer work as a provider due to my vision, but when that fails, what other avenues exist for someone who cannot go to the school, has no skills outside of being a provider, and has multiple disabilities that aggravate each other?

How do you accept losing income, increasing blindness, and decreasing vision as your condition worsens? How do you accept what you could have been vs what you are and not compare yourself to others or what you could have been and not be depressed or hate yourself because you can only do so much?

Hi everyone! This is my first post here.

I’m a 15-year-old totally blind girl from Mexico, and I’m about to start high school.

I’m looking for advice from other blind people who have been through something similar. I have some gaps in my education, not because I have trouble learning, but because I wasn’t taught many things properly throughout elementary and middle school. Some of my teachers didn’t know how to teach me as a blind student, so there are subjects and basic things I never had the chance to learn.

Now I’m starting high school, and I want to catch up, but I honestly don’t know where to start or how to balance catching up with keeping up with my current classes.

If you went through something similar, how did you catch up? How did you learn the things you hadn’t been taught while keeping up with your current classes?

What do you wish you had known when you were starting high school or college?

Thank you for reading and for any advice you can share!

hi friends! FTM to a perfect little 2 month old girl looking for some advice. my mom is coming out to babysit for us for a couple of weddings this fall and she is visually impaired. she’s okay in daylight hours but really struggles in the dark. my concern is the nighttime bassinet transfer/getting baby to sleep. baby’s current routine involves only the hatch nightlight on the red setting, but this wouldn’t be close to enough light for my mom to be able to see. any thoughts or suggestions??

I recently had surgery on my foot, and the doctors orders are to not bear weight on it for six weeks. Right now I have a great support system in place, which is basically hopping on 1 foot and holding onto someone’s shoulders as I go. We’re thinking of transitioning to a wheelchair, wondering if anyone has experience using a wheelchair with a cane? Does that even work? The doctors said to use crutches, then quickly added, not sure how that would work. Lol.
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I’m a classical piano major. Asked several AIs and they all recommended: MacBook Air 13" M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, touch ID. Seems awesome, but I’d appreciate your take — is this a solid choice for music work?