Happy Monday!

This week, we have some great community questions from parents with visually impaired children that we want to address! And as always, we have tips to help anyone who is visually impaired or that has a loved one who is visually impaired.

*This newsletter is built to be read in Dark Mode on your device for ease of reading for the visually impaired.

What People Are Asking

Below are 2 questions we received this week. If you want to submit a question, submit it by CLICKING HERE

📍 Q1: What’s something I might be overlooking at home to help my son?
✅ A: Contrast is everything. One quick fix? Make your door handles high-contrast: white doors = black knobs, stained wood = white knobs. Same goes for cabinets and drawers. It may not win a design award, but it will help your child locate them confidently.

📍 Q2: I love to bake, how can I continue to do this while going blind?
✅ A: Verbal kitchen scales are a game-changer. You can find them on Amazon, and they announce the weight of ingredients. It’s so important to continue doing things that you enjoy and to explore new hobbies! Bonus: Use bold-colored, large-print measuring cups to make baking more accessible. And use bump dots (discussed more in detail below) on your oven and microwave.

Top Tips Of The Week

• 📺 TV Size Matters (but not how you think):

  • Bigger isn't better. Whether it's a 55" or 100", your child will still need to sit close. Instead, invest in a comfortable, movable chair they can pull right up to the screen. A 50” TV has been perfect for me so I can get close but still be able to see all parts of the screen easily by moving my head around.

  • This simple switch makes sports, shows, video games and movies more accessible and less frustrating.

• 🔘 Bump Dots: 

  • $10 bump dots on Amazon can change your home. I have them on:

    • Microwave (numbers, start, stop)

    • Oven and dishwasher controls

    • Light switches and doorknobs with poor contrast

  • Pro tip: Use white dots on dark surfaces and black dots on light.

The Personal Touch

This weekend, I tripped over my daughter’s pink bike in my driveway. It blended perfectly into our light concrete driveway—I couldn’t see it at all.

I had two choices:

1. Laugh it off.

2. Get angry & frustrated.

That day, I chose anger. I was frustrated—not at my daughter, but at the fact that something that big can be invisible to me.

Here’s the thing: It’s OK to be frustrated. Let your child feel that too. This isn’t an easy journey. Don’t suppress it—sit in it with them. Laugh. Cry. Shout into a pillow if you need to. What matters is that they know you’re there, walking beside them. If it’s you that’s visually impaired, it’s okay to be frustrated. Fins someone to talk to, find some others like you in your community, they’re there, I promise. If you feel like you’re alone in this, there are lots of us going through what you’re going through to a certain degree. We got this.

Next Week’s Edition

3 game-changing accessibility features on your devices. (One of them is buried in settings and saves hours of frustration.)

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We got this,

Spencer | The Blind Girl Dad