what vision makes you legally blind?

Answer 1

In North America and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined as visual acuity (vision) of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best correction possible. This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand 20 feet (6 m) from an object to see it with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from 200 feet (60 m). In many areas, people with average acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees (the norm being 180 degrees) are also classified as being legally blind. Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity. Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20/70 to 20/200.

Answer 2

Considered Legally Blind

Answer 3

I'm not sure why there is so much confusion on this matter... Basically to be considered legally blind you would have to have visual acuity 20/200 or worse (That cannot be corrected). So this means if wear correction (glasses/contacts) that improves your visual acuity to better then 20/200 you are not considered legally blind.

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According to the entry on blindness in the Yahoo! Health Encyclopedia, anyone with vision worse than 20/200 that cannot be improved with corrective lenses is considered legally blind. In addition, people with a visual field of less than 20 degrees diameter (10 degrees radius) are also considered legally blind.
The American Optometric Association states that a person with 20/20 vision can clearly identify a row of 9mm letters from 20 feet. A legally blind person with vision of 20/200 has to be as close as 20 feet to identify objects that people with normal vision can spot from 200 feet. So a legally blind person needs a distance of two feet to spot the letters on a standard eye chart that is 20 feet away.

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what vision makes you legally blind?

Answer 5

20/200 in your worst eye, with correction.
Also, tunnel vision of 20%.

Legally blind is different than totally blind

Answer 6

Usually 20/400 corrected, which is pretty bad.
But it is a bit more complicated than that because besides not just blurry vision is involved in the broader definition of legally blind - problems may involve not being able to see at night but okay in the day and tunnel vision were only a small spot straight ahead can be seen (no peripheral vision) and damage to the lens so some areas are clear and others are not.

Answer 7

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Your prescription is completely unrelated to blindness. Legal blindness is when your vision is very poor even with the best glasses available. (<20/200 in the US, or <6/60 in the rest of the world)

Answer 8

Well, my son is 20/400 in one eye and I believe the doctor said he was legally blind in that eye. Fortunately, his vision in his other eye is correctable.

Answer 9

My optometrist once told my 20/200, but you are not really considered legally blind until you are 20/200 with glasses.

Answer 10

Uncorrectable 20/200 as determined in eye examinations. Simply it means that even with glasses you can see 20 feet away what "normally sighted" people can see 200 feet away..