I launched VisabilityStories to inspire those with low vision to seize life-enriching opportunities that technology and accessible programs make available, especially in the areas of reading, work, and recreation.

This site will profile resources, offer a variety of e-publications, and, above all, share stories—not merely “success stories,” but simple tales of how we with low vision learn, work, and play: how we perceive our abilities and what we do them.

Internet resources are infinite; the blindness system offers more programs and initiatives through agencies and nonprofits than most will ever discover; special education and vocational rehabilitation have experts to teach, track, and equip visually impaired students.  Harder to find are role models: adults whose experiences offer practical approaches to challenges where accommodating low vision leads to a fuller life.

This site strives to provide such information and in so doing, hopes to enlarge the image of what it means to have a visual disability.

Tell us what’s on your mind, what challenges you face; have you discovered vision-related insights that enabled you to accomplished things?  What do you hope to do?  As poet Muriel Rukeyser said, “The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.”

We hope the stories on this site open up your world.

Thank you,
Andrew Leibs