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I have no experience of, or opinions about those devices, but
before you invest in such things, you need to see a true low
vision specialist. This is an opthalmologist or optometrist who
actually specializes in dealing with reduced vision.  There are
low vision clinics in some places, and this is even better as
they may have lenses, and other gear you can try without buying.

Unfortunately the only such clinic I know of is at the U.C.
Berkeley dept of Optometry, but I am sure there are many others.

Never depend on opinions of general practice ophthalmolgists and
or other eye care professionals about how to deal with your low
vision problems, just like total blindness issues, most of them
know worse than nothing about coping with problems once they have
done what they can medically.

If your doc can't or won't send you to a low vision specialist,
then call the nearest medical school with a dept of ophthalmology
and ask if they have a low vision clinic.  go there!

No matter how hard it is.

Never depend on sales literature, or opinions of nonprofessionals
to find you the correct help!

Low vision is so complex, and specialized knowledge is so
absolutely necessary to deal with  it correctly, that not finding a
specialist with lots of real world experience in low vision is
leaving your self out of ideas and technologies that may really
do good things.

getting bad advice from inexperienced people is sometimes worse
than nothing at all.

End diatribe

Good luck
tom Fowle


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