Beyond the Chart: The Limitations of Visual Acuity Scores

The visual acuity scale has an interesting way of being very memorable. Visually impaired or not, just about anyone you ask can tell you, without hesitation, what their visual acuity is. I’m not sure the same can be said for really any other health metric further than height and weight. So what makes the visual acuity score so memorable? Honestly, I don’t know — but as I’ve spent time in the low vision space, I’ve discovered that while the average person can tell you with certainty that they have 20/20 vision, very few actually know what that means, and even fewer understand that the world’s fascination with their visual acuity is actually often harmful to those of us who are visually impaired — specifically those with low vision. <a href="https://medium.com/@realrebeccarose/beyond-the-chart-the-limitations-of-visual-acuity-scores-a946e6b29e7a">Read More</a>