I was astounded by how wonderful the new website is. It’s so easy to go back, time and time again.
Sixty-two-year-old Roslyn Zeltins has lived with low vision since she was a teenager in her high school marching band in Portage, Wisconsin. “I was always out of line back then. My band director told me to use my peripheral vision—that’s when I realized I didn’t have any,” she chuckles.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison Pharmacy School graduate, Zeltins worked as a pharmacist for 30 years before retiring in 2012. Even though she’s counted on Hadley to learn how to live with low vision for close to two decades, experiencing Hadley’s new website has been incredibly useful.
“What stuck out was the complete ease of operation,” she said with excitement. “You could see every single thing that you need to see; the ability to control the contrast and choose your own settings is wonderful. Just being able to choose how to see it—to make the site easiest for me—it’s truly remarkable.”
Zeltins admits it took a long time before she began to acknowledge her low vision. Taking the first step and using a white cane was hard, but she understood the importance of people knowing she had vision loss. “I could no longer pretend that I could see them,” she explains.
Shortly after retiring, Roslyn finally decided to embrace learning low vision skills. “It was a rallying call for me—thanks in part to the help of Hadley,” she says.
“I was astounded by how wonderful the new website is. It’s so easy to go back, time and time again. Content and videos are short—you don’t have to make a huge time commitment to learn something. My first thought: For once, somebody got this right.”