Just wanting to point out that visual impairment is a scale.

Very few people can't actually see anything, and so you are choosing your level of visual impairment as 'not blind' but someone else's at 'blind'. Someone else may put that line in a different place.

Fitting something not binary to a binary scale is hard.

One thing that we can all agree on is that they have some issue with their sight, e.g. some visual impairment.

I'm not sure I've ever heard of poor visual acuity (that can be corrected with lenses) being referred to as "visual impairment".

Really, acuity is a spectrum and almost nobody has perfect vision.

old people don't mind being lumped together.

“Visually impaired” isn’t really a euphemism for “blind.” It’s a broader term that can include people with different degrees of vision loss, including people who are partially sighted and people who are blind. So in this context, the article is using the term pretty normally.

Also, wearing glasses doesn’t automatically make someone visually impaired. If your vision is fully corrected with glasses or contacts, you generally wouldn’t be considered visually impaired. The term usually refers to vision loss that remains even with the best available correction.

Thanks. This is a helpful tool. BBC blocking access to non-uk IP's is very annoying.

Why? If we can make medical devices with strong privacy protections, why can we not make regular glasses with strong privacy protections? This is a totally incoherent take.