Appleton Visually Impaired Support Group

Are you ready to vote?🗳️

Getting Ready to Vote with Vision Loss With voting season here, we're bringing back this helpful episode. Vision loss can make voting a little trickier, so we look at different ways to cast your ballot and find an option that works for you.

It’s White Cane Wednesday!

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A big thanks to one of our newest members. Cindy shared her experiences throughout her career as a naturalist. She spoke of dealing with vision loss while finding ways to continue the work she loves.

👀 Check the comments below for a video of her demonstrating part of her work.👇

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Watching TV with Vision Loss: What Can Help Watching TV with vision loss? Hadley shares practical tips for your setup, remotes and menus, and using audio description to enjoy favorite shows.

Vision Connection
August 2026 Newsletter


After the heat in July and needing to cancel the picnic, it will be good to get back together. Hopefully everyone enjoyed their summer.

For our September meeting, Cindy Mueller, Retired High Cliff State Park Natural Resource Educator, a relatively new visitor to our group, will talk about her career, her volunteer efforts, how deteriorating vision has affected her life and whatever else Cindy would wish to share.

A few tips from Rod:

Tips for Dining with Vision Loss - Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired
Tips for Dining with Vision Loss - Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired

Hadley Helps:
Hadley offers Free Help and Learning for Adults with Vision Loss.
https://hadleyhelps.org/

Hadley now has a companion app for both Google and iOS. The app is called Hadley Helps.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hadley-helps/id6759167622

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.hadleyhelps.Hadley&hl=en_US&pli=1

Air Travel and Vision Loss From Hadley:
In this encore episode we're joined by James Ashworth, vice president of customer care at Southwest Airlines, who is also living with macular degeneration. From navigating airports to making the most of airline assistance services, we talk about ways to make air travel with vision loss a little easier.
https://hadleyhelps.org/podcasts/hadley-presents/air-travel-and-vision-loss-0?utm_source=accessinformationnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06292026&utm_content=editorial

Adjusting to Vision Loss: 5 Tips for Family Members
https://viplunch.wordpress.com/adjusting-to-vision-loss-5-tips-for-family-members/

If anyone has feedback they want to share about our monthly meetings, please communicate your feedback with Rod at [email protected] or 920-585-7443.

Next Meeting
The Appleton Visually Impaired Support Group will meet on Tuesday, Sept. 8th at 12.30 -2.30 p.m. in the meeting room at 425 N Linwood Ave. Appleton.

If you need transportation to any of our meetings, please contact Rod Maccoux @ 920-585-7443 or via email: [email protected].

Look us up on our page and/or our website.
page: Appleton Visually Impaired Support Group
Website: Appleton Visually Impaired Support Group
Email: [email protected]

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One Small Device, Staggering Engineering: How OneCourt Compresses a Live Stadium Into a Tablet Blind Fans Can Feel Here Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, takes readers inside OneCourt, the Seattle company whose "tactile broadcast" finally lets blind and low‑vision fans follow a live game in real time, by touch. Writing as both an engineer and a publisher, he walks through ho...