Money

In short

Two sides of the same coin: how money comes in and how it goes out. Earning covers side hustles and careers a blind person can actually do — plus the benefits rules that protect you before you earn your first dollar. Banking Access, Blindness Tax, and Retailer Ratings cover the spending side: where the traps are, what the premium really costs, and which big stores work with a screen reader.

Earning

Side hustles for cash now and careers worth training for — every one passes two tests: a blind person can do the work, and can actually get paying customers. Plus the benefits rules that protect you while you earn.

Banking Access

Banking is the highest-stakes thing you do blind — a broken login can lock you out of your money, and the “solutions” on offer are often worse than the problem. This guide covers which banks and apps actually work with screen readers (Chase has the strongest program, including free Aira), your right to talking ATMs (at least one speech-enabled machine per location under the ADA), and how to get through CAPTCHAs, one-time codes, and login walls.

Blindness Tax

Devices built specifically for blind people routinely cost ten to fifty times what mainstream gadgets with similar parts cost — while the phone in your pocket runs free apps that do versions of the same jobs. This guide puts the premium options and the free alternatives side by side with verified price bands: OrCam’s $3,500–$4,500 reader versus free phone apps, braille displays at roughly $100 per cell, AI smart glasses from $399 to $2,499, and JAWS at about $95 a year versus NVDA for free.

Scam Protection

Blind consumers rank among scammers' top targets. The defenses that work with a screen reader: free call screening, call-blocking apps, password managers, tactile security keys — and what to do when biometric checks lock you out.

ABLE Accounts

Tax-advantaged savings for people with disabilities: the 2026 expansion (disability onset before age 46 qualifies), costs by state plan, how it interacts with SSI and Medicaid — and why a benefits planner reviews before you act.

Insurance

Buying a health plan and reading your bills when you can't see them: your rights, the phone lines and counselors that work, what to do when the website fails — and whether anything improved since 2022.

Retailer Ratings

Online shopping should be the great equalizer for blind people, but retail websites are the worst of any industry for accessibility — and they break hardest at checkout, after all your effort is spent. This guide covers ten major retailers — what actually works with a screen reader, what breaks, and the workarounds that get your order through, with every claim verified in October 2026.