sorry for bad alt text, I lack the terminology to describe this accurately
(i'm not a mechanic, i have no earthly idea if this is accurate. Don't sue me)
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Chat, is this ableist?
The DMV I used to go to had a vending machine that said profits went towards supporting an all blind baseball team. I’m still not sure if it was legitimate: I get that “blind” could mean with 20/400 vision, which isn’t that difficult to correct well enough to play baseball, but that seems like one of the worst sports to play with limited visual input.
Every time I saw it, I had this thought process, then scolded myself for limiting people, then thought about how dangerous a fastball can be, then scolded myself again. I haven’t thought about that in a decade at least.
Also, you really don't want to play baseball (or hardly any other ball sports) with such bad vision, even if glasses offer awesome correction.
The refraction difference between the front facing direction versus sight out of the corner of your eye outside of the lens range is rather extreme and causes significant shear and even double vision of sorts when looking near the edges of the glasses.
Imagine seeing a baseball coming your way out of the corner of your vision, and you see a ball both inside the corrective lenses, and also see a ball offset outside of the range of the lenses. Depth perception goes right out the window, and you can almost be guaranteed to get smacked in the head with the ball.
No, to be declared legally blind, your vision has to be so bad that even with the best correction, you're still 20/400 or worse.
I should know, I'm around 20/500 without my glasses, but close to 20/20 with proper glasses. Therefore I cannot be declared legally blind.
Hey, just stating the obvious, the diagram wouldn't be very useful for a blind person anyways.
Besides, how would you write out alt text that clearly explains the diagram for blind people?
If you can think up a good explanation that makes sense, feel free to offer OP some suggestions...