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These are tax tips for the visually impaired community to help relieve some of the stress and frustration this year! Remember, tax season ends April 15! 

Successful blind and visually impaired job seekers are creative, flexible and patient. You must remain positive and driven in your job search because your hard work and efforts will pay off. Here are some helpful ways to successfully job search during a pandemic.

Today’s smartphones, like the iPhone or Android, offer many accessibility apps for the blind or features for people with vision loss. For this blog post, the focus will be on the iPhone because it’s the most popular choice among blind and visually impaired users.

How many times have you played the guessing game in your kitchen? Trying to figure out what’s in that can or box on your pantry shelf?

Learning braille adds to your toolbox for navigating the world. Invented in 1824, by Louis Braille, this method allows you to take in information with your fingers.

In recent years, it has grown close to impossible to go a week without hearing about individuals traveling by air with their emotional support animals (ESAs). These animals ranged from peacocks to hamsters and often disrupted fellow passengers on flights.

As we continue to look for how to help in Nebraska with those who have vision loss, we know that your generosity helps us succeed. That is why we appreciate your support.

We introduce this series to give our writers an opportunity to share their own experiences and stories with you. Each one will offer a different perspective of the phrase, “The way I see it.”

As an electro-mechanical device, a refreshable braille display offers users the opportunity to give input and receive output in this digital age via braille. Refreshable braille devices display the braille characters along a flat surface using raised dots.

When the coronavirus struck earlier this year, major adjustments were made quickly. People learned how to wear a facemask and wash hands or use sanitizer more frequently.