support for visually impaired

For a member whose vision is getting severely impaired and another joining who is legally blind, I read that we can contact supply orders for accessible material for pathways. One is going to use an email reader to read agendas.
Are there any other resources that TMs use commonly or recommend to help them?
Thanks, BAT VPE

I am sorry but FTH does not offer support for the impaired, we are only volunteers and do not have the resources. Toastmasters International does offer some basic support for the impaired you will need to contact them. You might try asking on the Toastmasters Facebook page.

I am going to butt in here. As the current system developer, I have some insights into the design of FreeToastHost as to accessibility support.

Here is my bottom line answer on this...

FreeToastHost uses a number of open source libraries and frameworks in its implementation that *do* have accessibility support built in to them via the use of ARIA tags and other recommended practices to support screen readers and the like. Additionally, as I have become more aware of these things, I try to include them as I remember to.

However, there are a number of parts of our system web pages that are custom made and may not have the accessibility support. Also, most clubs do not know how to add this support to their home pages, meeting information pages, and custom page HTML that *they* create. There actually is an accessibility checker plug-in for the editor we use, but no one has ever asked us to deploy that plug-in, and the last time I experimented with it I ran into a number of problems with the plug-in.

Because of the above, our support for accessibility is *uneven* and *inconsistent*. It would be nice to provide consistent, documented support for it in the future, but we would really need to work with some users for an extended period of time who were in a position to provide feedback and help us make it work well. Without that feedback loop, we are essentially limited to what we have now. As Brian notes, we are volunteers with zero budget, so unless we can get some support from our users for these sorts of specialized use cases, we are severely constrained.

Thank you very much.
TM international had no more info but was interested also in what I could find.
I just wanted to update you as I did them with one other resource I found. Perhaps you can share it with others who ask for help for people with special needs.
There is a facebook group with 74 disadvantaged TMs (Toastmasters with different abilities). So no platforms but all sorts of advice from people facing the same.
I assume this FB is connected to TM international FB. I will find out more and keep you posted as we help our 2 members.
Thank you so much for your prompt response again,
BAT VPE