Questions and debates about blindness:

typeingtornado19 said:
Not unless i absolutely have to. Reading regular, or even large print for long periods can and does hurt.
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even though i can't see, i can understand that. one of my best friends has 20/200 vision, but no field restrictions. however, she is albino and has alot of problems with headaches and sensitivity to light. because of that, she needs to be careful of how she lights her environment so that reading is more comfortable.
 
Hear Again said:
even though i can't see, i can understand that. one of my best friends has 20/200 vision, but no field restrictions. however, she is albino and has alot of problems with headaches and sensitivity to light. because of that, she needs to be careful of how she lights her environment so that reading is more comfortable.
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Same here, well, i'm not an albino, but light has a big effect on what i am able to see.
 
faire_jour said:
Do parents deal well with blindness? I know that a lot of Deaf people think their parents were (or still are) in denial about their needs and Deafness. Is it the same for the blind? Are medical professionals "obsessed" with residual vision, like they are with residual hearing?
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Parents are excellent at denying blindness just as they are excellent at denying deafness. Of course it depends on the parents, but it's definitely true that some blind folks spend their whole childhood trying to break through their parents' denial.

Yes I would say professionals are obsessed with residual vision. I know severeal folks that are legally registered as low vision even though they by far meet the requirements for legally blind (acuity 200/20 or worse; or field of vision less than 10 degrees with correction in the better eye).
 
good post, nika. you're right about people with low vision even though technically that defines people with visual acuity anywhere between 20/70 and 20/100.
 
nika,

just a slight correction. you wrote the acuity of legal blindness as 200/20. it should be 20/200 meaning that what a normally sighted person can see at 200 feet a legally blind person can see at 20 feet.
 
nika,

how do you find the overall accessibility of the mac to be? have you ever used a pc before? if so, how do the 2 compare?

i used an apple IIe in 1984. it was the first computer i ever learned how to use. i used a braille word processing program called braille edit express (bex).
 
naisho said:
So since Nika and Typeing and dreama read text on monitors in the form of magnification, they are actually able to see in some form? Or is there something I'm missing? This just opened my eyes to realize that seeing is just as diverse as hearing, one step further.
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Yes I have some residual vision. I can see most stuff on on 16x magnification. When my eyes get tired I switch to screen reader.
 
Hear Again said:
yep. i know alot of legally blind people who are light sensitive. it doesn't just happen to albinos.
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I'm light sensitive but luckily not to the extent that I need sleep shades. But there are some days where I can't bear to take off my sunglasses.
 
Hear Again said:
nika,

just a slight correction. you wrote the acuity of legal blindness as 200/20. it should be 20/200 meaning that what a normally sighted person can see at 200 feet a legally blind person can see at 20 feet.
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Right, sorry.
 
Hear Again said:
nika,

how do you find the overall accessibility of the mac to be?
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Mac is much more accessible. I don't like PC magnification cause they leave the screen display at the typical size and use a tiny bar across the top as the magnification portion. Mac just magnifies everything. Plus you can only invert the colors on the PC in the magnification portion, so you still get black on white for the rest of the screen, which hurts my eyes. Mac lets me invert the colors on everything. I keep my computer as black on white with the minimum screen brightness. When I'm on my screen reader I turn my screen to 0% brightness, which basically turns the screen off. Also for a screen reader on PC you have to download JAWS or WindowsEyes whereas on Mac, VoiceOver comes with it absolutely free.
 
do you have light perception nika or are you legally blind (meaning that you have more vision than light perception)? sorry, i don't remember.
 
actually nika, JAWS comes in a free demo version that runs for 45 minutes before you have to shut down your computer and reboot.
 
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