Welcome to VO Academy
An online learning platform for the blind and vision impaired community.
What Our Courses Offer
VO Academy's online courses provide a unique self-paced environment for learning new skills.
Features Include:
- audio/video lectures
- Course discussions
- Practice lessons to further develop newly acquired skills
- Downloads
- Quizzes to gage retention
- Final exams to test overall knowledge
- Certificate after completion and a passing grade on the final exam
Additionally, we offer both subscriptions and flexible payments to make our courses and series available to as many learners as possible.
Featured Courses
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Blind Business 101
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$30.00 / monthJAWS Academy
JAWS Academy is an on-going series focusing on the basics of using the JAWS screen reader on Windows. Enrolled students will gain access to new courses in the series when added.
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Web Accessibility 101
Interested in the field of Web Accessibility? This course will introduce you to the basic concepts and skills needed to get started with A11y.
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iPhone Academy
The iPhone has proven to be an important tool that promotes the independence of the blind. In this series students will learn all the basics and more.
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The Shopify Blueprint
The Shopify Blueprint is a course geared towards getting blind entrepreneurs up and running on the Shopify platform. This course is taught from a non-visual perspective.
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$100.00Introduction to Digital Marketing
Every blind entrepreneur needs to know the basics of digital marketing. This course introduces students to the foundations of online engagement.
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4 payments of $25Zoom Conferencing with JAWS
Learn how to host and participate in meetings held on the Zoom conferencing platform with this course. This step-by-step guide will have you up and running in no time.
What the Community is Saying
“Thanks Vision Optional for posting a six part comprehensive tutorial on using Zoom with a screen reader. I was able to learn the program and participate in my first meeting in one day. Downloading and installing was a snap. Your step-by-step approach has made this extremely easy. ”
C. Gray
“Very well done. Thanks for setting JAWS to a normal rate. This is the first video I have listened to but I have subscribed.”
Norma A. Bogue
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