visually impaired

visually impaired

Euph. blind or partly blind. I am visually impaired, but I like TV just as much as the next person. The disease left him visually impaired.
See also: impaired
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • partially sighted
  • sighted
  • stone blind
  • stone-blind
  • blind drunk
  • blind as a bat/beetle/mole
  • living impaired
  • blind
  • blinded
  • turn a blind eye to (something)
References in periodicals archive
"A 15-day Blind Archery training camp was organized for the preparation of International Visually Impaired Archery 2019," he told.
Ms Cebani noted that there were challenges with offering integration for the visually impaired such as shortage of ready-made text books.
With the help of technology, Saudi inventor Meshal Al-Harasani is working on creating a digital mus'haf for the visually impaired to facilitate reading the Holy Qur'an.
'Many organizations, working for welfare of visually impaired persons have approached DEPD to resolve the issue on priority basis and we are fully committed to facilitating special persons, he added.
He stated that the administration had not kept the promise to give visually impaired people 3% job quota which it made many times earlier and pledged that they would not go away this time until their demands were met.
The NAWB, established in 1992, has been supporting visually impaired students by providing Braille textbooks, trainings and scholarships.
The manual is written by nine visually impaired trainers themselves who have shared their years of experience in teaching digital literacy and soft skills to fellow blind and low-vision Filipinos.
Previously, the visually impaired struggled with the printed Braille books.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has signed up the country to the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled.
But what if your eyesight is not strong enough to follow the computer screen?Three Slovak students decided to develop a browser that will help visually impaired people browse the internet just as easily.After we saw a visually impaired person interacting with a computer and mainly the web, we immediately knew this was the direction we needed to move in, Daacutevid Majer#269aacutek, one of the student working on the browser, told The Slovak Spectator about how the idea came into being.
The core cause of visually handicapped in the visually impaired assembly was toxoplasmic macular retinochoroiditis, ocular malformation, congenital glaucoma, retinal dystrophies retinopathy of prematurity, optic atrophy, and congenital cataracts as well as degenerative disorders of the retina and macula.
SIALKOT -- Speakers pledged and stressed a need to make an all-out effort for the betterment and welfare of the disabled persons especially the visually impaired.
National Taiwan Library (NTL) has launched a special online service for visually impaired users, according to a statement issued Monday by the Ministry of Education.