![]() Overly helpful individuals: It’s very common for sighted individuals, strangers, friends or family, to be overly excited to help a visually impaired person. ![]() Most of this information is inaccessible for the blind and the visually impaired, inhibiting their independence, since access to information signifies autonomy. Timetables in train stations, signs indicating the right way or potential danger, a billboard advertising a new product in the market, these are all the visual types of information we all come across in our daily life. One glimpse around us is enough to make us realize how visual is most of the information in our environment. This article aims to shed light upon the challenges the visually impaired face just by living life and being the odd ones out.Īccess to information: The major sensory organ of a person is their eyes. That means that any individual different than the average, such as the visually impaired, faces difficulties because they’re not what is considered to be average. Is this case as simple in real life as in our minds, though? As one of Envision’s founders said in his TEDxGouda talk, we have built a world around us that serves the majority. ![]() Blind individuals are just like anyone else but they just can’t see. Having to deal with sight loss or low vision is merely one of the challenges that the visually impaired are facing when living life.
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