#presbyopia — Public Fediverse posts

I read up on Presbyopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia , difficulty with focusing with age. I am nearing forty and noticing more difficulty focusing on close up objects.

But now I understand why it might be difficult for older people to deal with low-light situations. In these conditions, the pupils widen to capture more light, but this shortens the depth of field putting more pressure on the eyes to get the focus just right. Older eyes are less able to adjust focus so things will be blurry.

#presbyopia
#farsightedness

Mobile phone and presbyopia: three hidden setting that make your phone more readable

// Article in French //
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Presbytie et téléphone mobile : trois réglages cachés pour rendre votre téléphone plus lisible

https://moncarnet.com/2026/05/11/presbytie-et-telephone-trois-reglages-caches-pour-rendre-votre-telephone-plus-lisible/

#Apple #Google #iPhone #iOS #Android #Presbyopia #Presbytie

One #accessibility issue I mention frequently is web designers, presumably for aesthetic reasons, making low-contrast colour choices. It also frequently goes along with selecting a #font so small that only people with excellent vision (and no #presbyopia) can read them, even if the #contrast were higher.

Here's an example. I'm not pointing out the software in question, even though you could identify it easily, because this isn't a dunk on that project, specifically.

This is the reference #documentation for an API, a small excerpt from the navigation links that run down a column on the left side of the page. The #text is darkish #grey on a lighter grey background. The contrast is terrible, particularly ignoring the highlighted entry because that's bolded as the current selection.

If you have #cataracts or any other #vision problem, you're going to have trouble with this. But it gets worse.

That text is 7 pixels high. On my monitors, it's 3 mm high. Ridiculous. Note that if you have fine motor-control problems or use alternative input devices, these are also extremely difficult to click on.

Here's the kicker: for this site, I have Firefox set to #scale the text up to 133%. That 7 pixels / 3 mm is *after* enlarging it.

#Web folks, please try to remember that not everyone is a twenty-something able-bodied person with zero accessibility issues.

#WebDesign #WebDesigner #usability #readability #legibility #WebPage

Went to #opticians last week for eye test and checkup, was slightly cursing myself for driving short distance but it was cold and pissing down with rain. Had to fight cursed #UI of parking machine to get my pay and display ticket (took several tries, but I refuse to download yet another app)

Thankfully my distant #eyesight is no worse than 2 years ago (although my #presbyopia has increased slightly to +1,50) - managed to unearth a #vuln in an #OCT scanner as I am very nearsighted - the level of this overflowed the software, optician had to use a different one!

Was shown all the pictures of the inside of my eye/optic nerve etc, all was good there (considering my age and near sight)

Got some #ramen from one of the Asian shops but didn't hang around long in town due to #weather (brr!)

Listening to Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies on the Mindscape #podcast was very interesting.

A thing I learned (and read up): you may be able to wear one contact lens for #myopia and one for #presbyopia (the thing when you get older and need reading glasses) in different eyes and your brain can make use of it. I will surely test this!

Be warned: There is quite graphic talk about surgery and body parts.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/09/15/328-mary-roach-on-replacing-parts-of-our-bodies/

FDA approves Vizz eye drops, offering a new non-surgical option for presbyopia, the age related loss of near vision. Developed by Lenz Therapeutics, Vizz works within 30 minutes, lasts up to 10 hours, and showed no serious side effects in trials spanning 30,000+ treatment days. U.S. rollout begins late 2025. 🤓

#health #vision #eyecare #medicine #fda #presbyopia #science

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-fda-vizz-eye-vision-adults.html

Fixed the #Thinkpad #P50 #keyboard (it was a bit worse for wear to start with and then some keys just stopped working). Had to put on safety specs for this work - not because of any danger, but this pair has +1,00 lenses which due to #presbyopia make it easier to see the small fiddly connectors for the ribbon cables.. #repair #laptopRepair #maintenance

A question relating to VR use for people with an optical prescription has had me realise that I might have missed the time window for when I'd have been able to enjoy it.

I've had myopia, increasingly so, since age ~10.

For the past 5+ years I've also had presbyopia (where your eye's lenses stiffen as you age, reducing your focal range).

I mostly wear my "intermediate" glasses around home, as I spend most of my time at the computer. With these I can comfortably focus from around 20cm away up to maybe 2 metres.

I have a pair of varifocals as well for "out and about". They do *not* work for close up other than something I'm holding low in my vision because I have to be looking out the very bottom of the lenses, and that would mean tilting my head back uncomfortably for viewing a screen around stretch-out-arm fingertip distance away.

So, any VR is going to have a mix of close up and distance things rendered, yes ? I'm only going to be able to focus on some of that. And given it's whole-scene, and moving my head moves the entire point of view, varifocals wouldn't help. There's no sort of correction that would address this.

So, it's likely a waste of time me even thinking about VR now.

#vr #presbyopia #myopia #BeingOldSucks

Slashdot's text color is #363636 (default light theme).

Slashdot... why do you hate me? Would it kill you to just make your text BLACK??

#aging #OldEyes #presbyopia

"Why am I getting a headache every time I need to use my laptop?"

Says the bloke who keeps forgetting that he now needs glasses for when he's using his laptop but not when using his desktop 🤦

#presbyopia #denial #IamPeterPan

Well, fuck you too, #TheRegister... Fuck you too! 😅

#WinAmp #Napster #Mp3 #40s #Middle-aged #presbyopia #ReadingGlasses #TooCloseForComfort #FeelingOld
#NorskTut #Allheimen

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

Trying out brand new set of glasses for near-focus work with my updated prescription. Seems to work! Definite pros and cons. Laptop screen coming through in crisp definition and I have not been tempted once to prop my glasses on top of my head. Meanwhile the trees outside seem to have been hijacked by freaking Monet. #presbyopia

You know what’s “fun” for me these days?

Realizing that with my current pair of (myopic) glasses, I can no longer read text on my phone closer than 25cm (10″) away.

Sure, I can take off my glasses and read the text on my phone while holding it much closer, but then I can't see far anymore.

#Presbyopia and #Myopia don’t cancel each other out. That‘s what’s “fun.” :NeofoxGlare:

#auGHOST 04 'aged'

You have only aged when your arms have become too short. 👓👻

#auGHOST2024 #KleineKunstklasse #MastoArt #Art #ghost #presbyopia

Sometimes when I show my phone screen to others, particularly older people, they want to hold it, to angle away reflected glare, or to get the right distance to focus on it.

Sometimes, when they grasp the phone, they unintentionally tap the screen and so navigate away from what I'm trying to show.

The modern equivalent to "sharing a piece of paper" has #usability issues.

#UXDesign #UX #UI #UserExperience #presbyopia #aging #glare #accessibility #a11y #phone #SmartPhone #touch #TouchScreen

My understanding is that #apple does a fantastic job for people who are blind or deaf or have movement difficulties — I wish they would also recognize the vast numbers of people with #Presbyopia that is, we who need to use reading glasses to use our phone.

How about a setting that could be activated similarly to that for Assistive Access, a triple click or a shortcut action and which toggled your phone to some specified level of magnification, so it could still be read without glasses?

I really hate #presbyopia B-(

#iMissMyEyes
#FOCUSdarnYou

You know you’re not as young as you used to be when you think “I might be able to see this better if I take my glasses off”, only to find you’ve already taken them off…. #presbyopia

Age ain’t nothin’ but a number, baby. And my number just happens to be 2.5, which is the magnification power on my readers that I have to wear over my multi focal contacts to read anything less than a 14 pt font in bright light. #presbyopia #WhereAreMyGlasses #TheyAreOnMyHead

I'm on the hunt for a better Visual Studio Code editor theme.

After scrolling through a long list of options, I'd like to suggest a new set of criteria/filter:

* Light
* Dark
* Light (for 40+ year old eyes with Presbyopia)
* Dark (for 40+ year old eyes with Presbyopia)
+ Bonus: not using every color possible

#vscode #themes #softwaredevelopment #webdev #accessibility #Presbyopia

@RL_Dane @NicoleCRust No. There is no known behavioural intervention to remediate #presbyopia. And don't avoid reading glasses: It will not change the time course of the lens stiffening but just make you miserable :).

Edit later: @CTLiotta comment also relevant.

Today seems to be a day for polls. This one if for the 40 and over crowd.

How many pairs of reading glasses do you own?

#GenX #MaybeMillenial #glasses #presbyopia #old

Mastodon web client is very nice on the phone. More fully featured than the Tusky android app. E.g. can search for a hashtag then follow it.

Ribbon on the side is handy.

Main difference is don't size. Bigger defaults on the app. #presbyopia