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.

That's interesting I seem to do better when I have the standard bifocals but the neurological problem isn't corrected by anything in the eye itself that can be corrected including glasses. Oh well what a drag it is and all that LOL

FWIW, the solution (in the eyeglasses case) for me was a pair of Zeiss lenses (again—moved around U.S., new docs to ‘train’🙂—eyes are a once/yr appt—as you observed, 5 min of 20)Zeiss made three flavors: Room, Desk … Now Zeiss conceptualizes differently zeiss.com/vision-care/us/eye…

Different strokes. My spouse prefers bifocals as well, but has a single vision, coated pair for computing. Has another single vision for golf before TBI. He has two huge monitors on his desk and monitors govt news on a slightly larger TV off to one side. Uses big spreadsheets.