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Learn to touch-type. Be open to new interests that can emerge even if things tend to be text-focused right now. I'm going to suggest something like and iPad +

Learn to touch-type. Be open to new interests that can emerge even if things tend to be text-focused right now. I'm going to suggest something like and iPad + Kybook3 app for ebooks. It'll let her read ebooks at whatever size makes her comfortable, and then easily have it switch to speaking the text. Get her used to text-to-speech in a way that still lets her go back and forth. You have to enable and play around with a few iOS settings to make it all ideal. Speech is surprisingly good now and will only get better. Respond to this if you want more info on my suggested settings for it.

javajosh 3y ago
>> I'm losing my sight. How should I prepare? > Learn to touch-type. What a quintessential hacker news response! Losing your sight is a profound loss, involving grief and other emotions, not just the facility but all the people, places and things that gave you joy to see. You are losing your independence, the ability to move around your own house, to cook things safely (and to see when they are done). You lose the ability to drive.
- interestica 3y ago
  ? I think my comment offered a bit more than that. I suffer from Keratoconus and have had to deal with the diagnosis that "you may be blind before 30". What I offered are two of my personal ways of dealing with that very same reality. Touch typing has meant that I can write confidently even if I can't see what I'm writing. And using devices + text-to-speech in a way that expands on existing reading habits seems like a reasonable way for their mother to adapt to the use of speech as a replacement for reading. > Losing your sight is a profound loss, involving grief and other emotions, The OP was specifically looking for "any tricks or solutions for non-technical people like her that could make her life easier" not psychological assessments and suggestions.

javajosh 3y ago

>> I'm losing my sight. How should I prepare? > Learn to touch-type. What a quintessential hacker news response! Losing your sight is a profound loss, involving grief and other emotions, not just the facility but all the people, places and things that gave you joy to see. You are losing your independence, the ability to move around your own house, to cook things safely (and to see when they are done). You lose the ability to drive.

interestica 3y ago
? I think my comment offered a bit more than that. I suffer from Keratoconus and have had to deal with the diagnosis that "you may be blind before 30". What I offered are two of my personal ways of dealing with that very same reality. Touch typing has meant that I can write confidently even if I can't see what I'm writing. And using devices + text-to-speech in a way that expands on existing reading habits seems like a reasonable way for their mother to adapt to the use of speech as a replacement for reading. > Losing your sight is a profound loss, involving grief and other emotions, The OP was specifically looking for "any tricks or solutions for non-technical people like her that could make her life easier" not psychological assessments and suggestions.