Who I am
I'm Tony Gebhard — totally blind, and I work with this technology every single day: as an assistive-technology professional, a musician, and an advocate for our community. No Sight Required is the book I wished existed: a real, first-person, no-gatekeeping guide to using AI through a screen reader.
You can find more of what I do at tonygebhard.me and blind.productions.
In my own voice
One minute on what No Sight Required is, who it's for, and why it exists.
A 76-second trailer. Over gentle music and warm imagery — sunrises, a forest trail, hands reading braille, and a woman walking confidently with a white cane — Tony Gebhard introduces No Sight Required and its message: you matter, and these tools are yours. Captions are on; the full transcript is below.
Read the full transcript
Hey there, this is Tony Gebhard. I'm the author of the new book No Sight Required, a blind user's guide to AI.
For a really long time now, artificial intelligence has dominated the fields of education, the workplace — you name it. But there hasn't really been good documentation, or a guide from a first-person perspective, that explains how to navigate this stuff.
Well, that changes today. After about a year's worth of work — navigating fact-checks, verifications, and rewrites just to keep up with this space — I'm happy to release the book No Sight Required, the blind user's guide to AI.
This is for the young, the wild, the intrigued, the vigilant twenty-something. Or it could be for the forty-year-old who just lost their vision and is heading into the workplace, getting back into rehabilitation, working to become a more successful and independent blind individual.
Available on Amazon as an eBook or paperback. No Sight Required.
You matter every single day, and I want you to be successful. Check out the book — nosightrequired.com.
Credits — Voice by Tony Gebhard. Audio editing by Rocco Fiorentino.
From the Author's Note
Author's Note
Hey. Before we get into screen readers and chatbots and keystrokes, I want one minute of real talk, just you and me.
Maybe you picked up this book excited. Maybe you picked it up scared. Maybe somebody handed it to you after a rough season, the kind where the technology changed again and you felt the ground move under your feet. Wherever you are starting from, hear me clearly: you are not too old, you are not too late, and you are not behind. There is no behind. There is only where you are and the next small step.
Technology has not always been kind to us. We have all sat in front of a machine that would not talk to us, on hold with support people who did not understand us, in trainings that moved too fast or assumed too much. If any part of you flinches when something new comes along, that flinch was earned. I am not going to pretend otherwise.
But I am also not going to let it have the last word, and neither should you. Every chapter in this book was written with one rule taped above my keyboard: no judgment, ever. You can read a chapter five times. You can get the keystroke wrong twenty times. You can set the book down for a month and come back. None of that is failure. That is exactly how every person you have ever admired actually learned. We fail forward around here, and we do it together.
You deserve these tools. You deserve the independence they give you and the doors they open. Not someday, not after you earn it. Now, as you are.
So take a breath, get comfortable, and let's do this thing at your pace.
Lots of love. You always matter.
— Tony
To everyone who waited
Thank you. Truly.
You raised your hand for a book that didn't exist yet — on faith, because you believed our community deserved a real, no-gatekeeping guide to this stuff. That meant more than you know on the hard writing days.
Well — it exists now. It's live, it's yours, and you helped will it into being. I'm not going to waste that trust.
A note on honesty
This book was written in collaboration with AI — the same kind of tool it teaches — then shaped, edited, and finalized by hand, and reviewed by human editors. Every keystroke, command, and resource was checked against official documentation and current community sources.
Helped by AI, finished by a human, checked by more humans. A book about partnering with AI ought to be exactly that.
← Get the book