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Low Vision Simulator Apps and Frequently Asked Questions
Tengo Baja Vision app logo and text: "Low Vision Simulator Apps"
Tengo Baja Vision and Tengo Baja Vision VR are two low vision simulation apps for iOS and Android.
Creating a Non-Visual Digital Map: Video Tutorial
Image of Google map of Illinois School for Visually Impaired and text, "Create A Map: Video Tutorial"
Step-by-step instructions and best practices when creating a non-visual digital map for students who are blind or low vision.
Making Geology Accessible: Free Tactile Image Files
Image of a magmatic environments (active volcano) with text, "Geoscience Tactile Images"
80+ tactile graphic images for geoscience education!

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80+ tactile graphic images for geoscience education!
Image of a magmatic environments (active volcano) with text, "Geoscience Tactile Images"
Making Geology Accessible: Free Tactile Image Files
Here is a fun way to practice the read/pause tech commands and listening comprehension skills!
7 Year old making two-finger double tap gesture on Kids Listen podcast app. Text, "Listening, Comprehension & Tech Skills"
Kids Listen Podcast: Practicing Tech Skills
A game to practice VoiceOver gestures, braille display commands and/or Bluetooth keyboard commands!
Photo of two iPads opened to VoiceOver Practice page and two hands making the 1-finger tap gesture. Text: Synchronized Swimming
Practicing Gestures: Synchronized Swimming Activity
Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo Systems have accessibility features for students with low vision!
Image of a game controller and text, "Gaming is for Everyone!"
Gaming is for Everyone!
Multi-week lesson ideas for introducing a second grade student to audio graphs.
Second grade boy wearing a mask learning over a computer listening to audio graphs. Text, "Demos: Audio Graphs"
Desmos Audio Tracing: Introducing Sonified Graphs
Are you familiar with the various tools - and how to use these tools - used by blind and low vision scientists?
Tool box full of tools and text, "Blind Scientist Tools"
Tools Used by Blind Scientists
A tech savvy high school student who is visually impaired shares tips when writing code using Swift Playgrounds.
Image of a computer with "Tech with Tyler" and text, "Debugging Swift Playgrounds Code"
How to Find and Fix Issues in Swift Playgrounds When using VoiceOver
Understanding the spatial layout when regrouping and carrying in additional and subtraction problems using a digital game.
Photos of tactile overly and addition app with carrying and text, "Tactile to Digital: Addition and Subtraction"
Tactile to Digital Part 5: Addition and Subtraction
Strategies for creating the perfect customized university maps for students who are blind or low vision.
Text: "Creating Customized Campus Maps" with background of NCSU Main Campus map.
Creating Customized Non-Visual Digital College Campus Maps
Kadyn interviews Ted Galanos, an accessibility analyst testing commercial websites and apps and owns his own consulting company.
Cartoon image of girl holding a mic and text, "It's My Job Podcast #17: Ted Galanos"
It's My Job Podcast #17: Ted Galanos
Using a tactile overlay to reinforce the table format in the digital Math Melodies game, Absolute Positions.
Fiinger dragging across a tactile table overlay on the iOS game, Absolute Positions; text, "Tactile Overlay for a Digital Table"
Tactile to Digital Part 4: Positions in a Table
Two quick and easy methods to create simple iPad overlays of screens with rows, grids, tables, etc. designed to develop spatial skills.
Photo of iPad, painter's tape, pen, pencil, scissors, and sensational blackboard with text, "Creating a tactile overlay".
Tactile to Digital Part 3: Creating a Tactile Overlay On the Go!
Connect with Veroniiica, a popular blogger who writes about her experiences as a successful student with low vision.
Accessibility, Advocacy, and Allies in the Workplace: A Community Conversation with Veronica Lewis
Introducing tactile and digital math skills through a progression of models, tactile graphics, and digital activities using the Add or Delete iOS game.
Tactile graphic of Math Melodies Add and Delete screen with text, "Tactile to Digital: Math Melodies"
Tactile to Digital Part 2: Math Melodies
Bridging the gap between tactile graphics and digital materials: math facts.
Tactile graphic of Math Robot screen with braille beside the app with text, "Tactile to Digital: Math Robot"
Tactile to Digital Part 1: Math Robot
Macy, with Challenge Solutions, shares a video tutorial with her tips for students learning to create a Keynote presentation.
Screenshot of Macy's Keynote Presentation in Outline view and text, "Creating Keynote Presentation: Outline View"
Tech Standards: Creating Keynote Presentations Part 2

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