My local group that I’ve been part of for nearly a year now.
Like Jean, who is such a lovely lady btw, I met other people with sight loss during last years Sight loss Course (2022).This charity in my home city, does so much good for us all. I really appreciate the welcome everyone gave me last year entering that room. Not knowing how things would go. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
If there is a group near you, and you’re umming and arring, I would urge you to go.
This is what happens when designers don’t think about the visually impaired people of the world.
Not taking into consideration how hard it can be looking for a particular app on a tablet or mobile phone.
Very frustrating thinking you’ve tapped on a particular app you want, to find something you don’t want has popped up.
The amount of times I’ve done the above. Especially if they are just mainly a colour. You want Facebook for instance and you get your banking app, 02 or text messages. All square. All same shade of blue.
Help over time for accessibility functions for screens are increasing mainly. In settings you can change the display, size of the font and magnification help all in a few clicks. Helpful tools to make our life easier.
However. When you’re faced with this example below. How is this going to help?
It’s hard enough as it is.
PICTURE DESCRIPTION Showing examples of how graphics can look very similar to visually impaired people.
PICTURE DESCRIPTION Cartoon picture of girl with brown hair laid down in front of fire crying.
Went out on the 17th of December for a few drinks with a bunch of people. Had a lovely jubbly time. All was well in One Vision world. Well… apart from the eye condition, but all good.
Woke up the next morning. Felt absolutely shocking. Proper like… What the actual F…
Nope. It wasn’t the Strongbows. I hardly drink nowadays.
Got up and just then couldn’t get my head off the settee.
I’ve had this feeling before I thought… Oh here we bloody go…
Was supposed to be going out for a meal with another couple that night. We made our excuses. I couldn’t function.
Took a Covid test. I’ve got it again. Brilliant…
Now if anyone read my Covid rant from the first time, you will now it was a very scary, lonely time for me. My mental health plummeted, along with physical health. This was in 2020. A time before jabs and people being able to come into your home to look after you, the very least just for some company. A physical presence beside you.
So I got a bit scared thinking I can’t do that again.
It ended up where I spent Christmas day watching Marilyn Monroe movies alone with a makeshift dinner. I quite enjoyed it!
I wasn’t able to go out for ages and even after this it was a struggle. It seemed like I wasn’t ever going to get back to normal.
The good thing is that although I still don’t have all my smell and taste back. I now don’t smoke anymore, I was too ill and the thought made me feel sick and I am mainly eating fish, seafood and hardly any meat at all. Covid, both times, put me off it. This time even moreso.
I won’t bore you with the rest, but if you want something to read to get you to sleep, below is a link to my blog post for the first round.
One Vision Blog 