iPhone magnifier app

My Apple iPhone is one of my favourite gadgets, and I was interested to see that there is now a magnifier app known as ‘iCanSee’ available through iTunes for 59p (or 99¢). It has a zoom function which claims to magnify up to 4x, although when I tested it the maximum magnification setting only equated [...]

Nice AMD treatment overview, but no mention of low vision…

Last week’s edition of the British Medical Journal had a good review article on treatment of age-related macular disease. I’d recommend it as an overview to anyone who is interested in this topic, but there is a serious oversight (to my mind): there is no mention at all of the role of low vision services. [...]

Vertical reading: what is the best way and how fast can it be?

I have just read an interesting paper by Yu and colleagues from Minnesota in the most recent edition of Journal of Vision. I don’t often review papers based on people with good vision in this blog but I think it has some useful implications for people with some forms of visual impairment. In it, the [...]

Does everyone want low vision services?

Many people in the field of vision rehabilitation are concerned with ensuring that low vision services are available to as many people as possible. But does every visually impaired person want to receive low vision services? I must confess that I had not given this question much thought: like many of my colleagues I assume [...]