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I was talking to my opticians recently and he said "Everyone gets cataracts, PVDs[1] and macular degeneration, if they live long enough". So we should all be gl
by hermitcrab 4y ago
I was talking to my opticians recently and he said "Everyone gets cataracts, PVDs[1] and macular degeneration, if they live long enough". So we should all be glad that people are working in this area.
[1]Posterior Vitreous Detachment.
- cratermoon 4y agoOver the past 2-3 years I went from needing reading glasses for small print to needing reading glasses for nearly everything in "normal"-sized print. I even keep HN at +125% (thanks, Chrome) because the default is too small. I still need my reading glasses at this magnification, but I don't want to magnify it too much more because of limited screen real-estate. This is just from normal age-related presbyopia. I'm hoping that as the tech-savvy population ages, more thought will be put into design for vision challenges. Honestly I very low expectations, though.
- hermitcrab 4y agoTech is mostly designed by young white English-speaking males and they tend to design with young white English-speaking males in mind. On the plus, this means that there are quite a few unexploited opportunities.
- cratermoon 4y ago> Tech is mostly designed by young white English-speaking males Indeed, and readability is one of the less pressing problems that result from that. It's also why I have marginal hope, at best.