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Cooking tips and tools for the blind and disabled (Martina Ibáñez-Baldor / Los Angeles Times; Getty ) By Stephanie Breijo Print People with visual impairments and other disabilities can face challenges cooking but a growing number of services, guides and technologies can help make the kitchen a safe, accessible space. These resources offer visual recipes, tutorials, adaptive-tool recommendations and more to help more people discover and enjoy cooking. More Coverage Online resources Safety tips: The VisionAware website from the APH ConnectCenter offers a directory of services and ar...

Print Chef Regina Mitchell’s Zoom cooking class begins like a lot of Zooms: friendly banter, reminders to mute here, some technical adjustments there. A few minutes after the 4:30 p.m. start time, there are about 20 people on the call. The menu for tonight: a vegetable stir-fry and a lemongrass-ginger soda. “The blind can cook!” she says to the camera and laughs. “People say when you have lemons, you make lemonade. I turn lemons into limoncello. Or a lemon pavlova.” Mitchell, 60, became blind as an adult. She teaches cooking through the Nevada-based organization Blindconnect and its...