Parallel 86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind

Andrew Leland's memoir "The Country of the Blind" tells a story about his ongoing journey into vision loss. It's also a kind of history of blindness, and blindness technology, with stops along the way to unpack the literary deployments of vision loss by other writers. He talked with me about the book, about the technology he uses, and some of his encounters with people made uncomfortable by low-vision.

Andrew Leland

• The Country of the Blind, by Andrew Leland
• The Hidden History of Screen Readers: The Verge
• Exploding the Phone, by Philip Lapsley
• Windows Screenreader Primer, David Kingsbury
• Berkeley Systems' OutSpoken screen reader
• Jonathan Mosen's Living Blindfully Podcast
• Poetry Magazine, Braille subscription
• Atkinson Hyperlegible font
• Teleprompter Premium iOS app
• Sight Unseen, by Georgina Kleege
• More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, by Georgina Kleene