• chaogomu@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Found this definition;

    In the United States, legal blindness means your central visual acuity—the part of your vision that allows you to see straight ahead—is 20/200 or less in your better eye when wearing corrective lenses. With 20/200 vision, you can see at 20 feet what a person with 20/20 vision sees at 200 feet. Or, your 20-degree field allows for seeing only right in front of you.

    You can be legally blind with tunnel vision, i.e. you can see directly ahead, but nothing out of the corner of your eye.

    • Mannivu
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      11 months ago

      That sound dangerous when doing something other than reading. Even walking could be a problem without having peripheral view.