This summer has been one of facing and overcoming many challenges for me, including getting special assistance on a plane on my own. For many people this is a regular occurrence, but for me it was a first. I was going to see one of my best friends in Belgium and spend a few days…
The concert experience as a blind person
Hello everyone, So today’s blog isn’t really anything specifically to do with visual impairment or blindness. Personally, I think that many sighted peple have the idea that just because we’re blind or visually impaired or have another disability we can’t have the same lifestyle or do every day activities as everyone else but truth be…
Living with sight loss: a reflection
Hello everyone, I haven’t updated in a while, I hope you are all doing okay (if anyone is still reading haha). So today’s blog might be similar to my other posts but in some ways, it might also be different. One thing that has become more apparent to me recently is people’s perceptions on sight…
Coping with sight loss
So today I thought I’d do a blog post on how I cope with sight loss, I know everyone has their own ways in dealing with things but I thought I’d share mine. I’ve been blind since birth so I’ve never known any different. I know these won’t help everyone and you’ll probably have your…
Living With Retinopathy Of Prematurity
Hello everyone, so today I thought I’d do a blog on my eye condition and my experiences as being severely sight impaired and for you to get a bit of an insight into my life. I was born at 24 weeks, as a result of this I suffer from Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), I weighed…
![There’s a phrase we hear far too often: “fully accessible”.
Hotels use it. Venues use it. Website developers use it. Event organisers use it.
On the surface, it sounds brilliant. But there’s no one size fits all approach to accessibility.
Because accessibility isn’t a box you can tick once and forget about. There isn’t a magic point where something becomes accessible to every single disabled person.
Our access needs are different. What works for one person might not work for another.
Rather than asking, “is it accessible?”
Ask: “Accessible for who?”
In my latest blog post, I’m exploring why “fully accessible” is a myth. Head to the link in my bio if you’d like to give it a read.
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