I was talking to my boyfriend who is low vision about this and he's pretty sure that while the gentleman is visually impaired he is not legally blind. As long as you have corrected vision to a certain level in one eye you are not considered to be legally blind.

In Ontario you have to have one working eye corrected to no better than 20/200 to be considered legally blind. Low vision is 20/70 corrected in your best eye. Basically if you can see anything more than a couple of shadows the government is not going to do bugger all for you.


It is not easy for low vision people, after half a dozen appointments with the March of Dimes, which is supposed to be helping low vision people [as well as other disabled people] find employment he got absolutely nothing useful from them. He's best qualified to be a writer according to them. Well duh, he was a technical writer for 25 years so I would think so. Unfortunately that does not mesh well with being nearly blind.