Reading Challenges of a Visually Impaired Writer in the Digital World: Guest Post by Kerry Kijewski

This is an awesome post. Next time Dreamweaver nags me about some aspect of my site not being accessible, I will listen.

Originally posted on change it up editing:

I recently met author Kerry Kijewski on

my Facebook page

. She commented that she really enjoyed the writing- and publishing-related posts on my page, but she couldn’t always access the links because she is blind. After some back-and-forth discussion, I learned that if I just added the links to the comments section, Kerry could access them with her reading software.

That conversation got me thinking about the other accommodations a blind reader/writer might need, so I asked Kerry to share her thoughts with us. Before I met her, I’d never considered how technology helps or hinders the creation and consumption of digital content. Now I know a bit more, and so will you:

I was born blind, but I had enough sight when I was younger to read and write large print. In the beginning days of computers I could use large print magnification programs. That seems like another lifetime to me…

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