People with low vision may feel frustrated to read books, newspapers and other materials. These effortless enjoyments impose much more requirements on visual impaired individuals. Some patients simply give up reading.

For people with low vision, there are various low vision aids such as eyeglass-mounted magnifiers, handheld magnifiers and stand-alone magnifiers. In addition to these common aids, partially sighted people can also take use of other means while doing computer work, such as word-processing, creating and using spreadsheets and browsing web pages. Special software enables computer users to enlarge the text size or just “listen” to texts.

Individuals with low vision problems may experience certain inconvenience and even difficulty during outdoor activities varying from shopping to simple walking. Fortunately, there are a wide variety of low vision devices that offer help.