Life teaches you lessons and, however brutal the method is, it makes you the person that you become. It’s something I’ve personally faced many a time, it even made me choose my current training for the job it made me long for.

Before I lost my sight, I didn’t know that Blind/VI individuals use phones and other technology. I didn’t was a possibility; sure, I was young (at twelve) but the media tells an unhelpful story that most unknowingly buy into.

It tells this instead of the real story – that such technologies like screen readers and magnification exist to aid many of us who are Blind/VI and, therefore no matter how low our vision, we can access technology.

No wonder then that 98% of website homepages have accessibility faults; if we don’t truly understand a matter, how can we effectively work with it?

But that’s not an excuse – we all hold the responsibility to ask more questions and do more research. We’ve long known that the media tells an unfair narrative in many cases and we should be looking past it for real voices.

It’s fair enough to forget sometimes (we all do), but once we hear a real voice that conflicts, we should use it as chance to educate ourselves by looking for more and getting others to do so too (perhaps even by simply sharing on a post).

I hope you’ll join me in my first returning accessibility post and learn more about how we can all help and how we can get others involved too.

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