Question for #lowvision and folks using adaptive and assistive devices who are having trouble seeing offline or online. The problem is neurological damage, one from a stupid molly trick TBI long ago and the other a side effect to the occipital lobe. I got lucky, most went blind.

My whole life I've had incredible vision, so acute I was nicknamed Eagle Eyed Molly. At 40, normal onset of need for reading glasses. My eyes are not the problem, they are normal thank heavens. Its traumatic injury to the visual areas of the brain's processing and I need help!

Assistive devices: Better voice to text input on Android and iPhone. Some AIs are pretty good, like otter.ai - I'm a fast talking New York/New Jersey girl who has pressured speech clinically as well. HA! I drive these programs nuts. It's both embarrassing and funny

I dislike audio for books. I dislike reading on a device. I want to hold a paper book in my hands. A cup of tea and kitty beside. I want to speak into a machine and have it not require me to use my hands, also impaired to a fatiguing degree. "RECTO auto" Is autocorrect to me.

Dragon dictate has been around a long time. It is not interoperable, has a higher learning curve than I feel up to learning. I want large print, no special magnification but reading glasses required. Does it still exist and if so where? Libraries do digital/audio more now. ThxU

Are you wanting to research 🐈☕️or to dictate🧏‍♀️ or both? Or just get real-life thoughts and examples from people who do? (Full disclosure, I don’t use a screen reader or a dictation app, and—lol—I’m not sure I understand the aim of the question.)

Thoughts. My vision is correctable, but I ‘got bold’ at a recent eye appt, and said ‘whoa.’ I explained: I had to be online all day often. The standard no-line/progressive bifocals that would be fitted by the standard rapid appointment protocol just had the wrong geometry for me.