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Low Vision Techniques and Aids

Low vision aids may be useful for certain patients such as those with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Wet Macular Degeneration. There are many Low vision devices such as magnifiers and text to speech programs may be useful for certain patients.  Different Tints help with different situations such as Yellow Tints may help with glare.

Simple computer techniques such as copying and pasting internet text to a word processor, increasing the font size and inverting the colors to white text on a black background such as this webpage here will make it easier for patients with severe ARMD to read with less glare.

Web pages may be magnified in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome by pressing CTRL and + at the same time.

You can read more about which low vision devices may be useful for you Here
Photo used under Creative Commons from JLStricklin