Editor's Page: Celebrating Low Vision Awareness Month
Dear AccessWorld readers,
Welcome to the Spring 2026 issue of AccessWorld. This month is Low Vision Awareness Month, which we’ve long celebrated here at AccessWorld.
Before we dive into the issue, I wanted to draw your attention to our other newsletter, Focus on AFB, also known as AFB Focus. AFB Focus is released quarterly and includes pieces detailing the work and impact of AFB directly. If you enjoy AccessWorld and want to learn more about our work, it’s a great place to do so. You can find the Winter 2026 issue here, and if you’d like to sign up for the newsletter to receive it in your inbox, you can do so here.
To start off this month’s issue of AccessWorld and to celebrate Low Vision Awareness Month, I have put together a quick piece detailing recent updates in Android accessibility from Google. This is especially appropriate, as many of these updates are significant in terms of features that are useful to people with low vision in particular.
Next, Janet Ingber brings us an interview with Jeff Bishop, a name that might be familiar to many. Jeff has long been a figure in the blindness technology space, having hosted ACB’s Main Menu radio show for many years. He now serves as the president of ACB’s Blind Information Technology Solutions (BITS), where he has spearheaded the introduction of technology courses for people who are blind or have low vision. In addition to discussing Jeff’s work in advocacy, this piece also provides detailed information about BITS and their courses.
Next, I review the role-playing video game Dawncaster, which is fully accessible to people who are blind or have low vision through the use of a screen reader to read game content. The game is notable not only for being a solid game in general, but also for having a smooth interface when played with a screen reader and for being fully accessible across platforms on iOS, Android, and PC. As an addendum to this article, I’ve also included a video recording demonstrating the game and how it can be played by someone who is blind.
As diabetes is a common companion to vision loss, and managing diabetes is so important for maintaining health, Jamie Pauls brings us a review of the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor. Continuous glucose monitors are useful because they can, as the name implies, constantly check your blood glucose level and keep you informed through the use of a smartphone app. This also means that they tend to be quite accessible, thanks to the companion apps many of these products use. In this piece, Jamie details getting started with the Dexcom and its effectiveness as a glucose monitoring tool for people who are blind.
To close out our issue, and our celebration of Low Vision Awareness Month, Steve Kelley reviews two Android apps that turn your smartphone into an effective handheld video magnifier. These include the third-party weZoom app as well as the Google Magnifier app for Pixel devices.
As always, thank you to our authors who share their knowledge and expertise with us each quarter, and thank you to you for being an AccessWorld reader. I’m thrilled to be able to bring AccessWorld to you each quarter and hope you find the content interesting and useful.
Sincerely,
Aaron Preece
Editor-in-Chief, AccessWorld
American Foundation for the Blind