The eye chart, the oldest tool for measuring visual acuity, has long escaped the stolid confines of the optometrist’s exam room. Today, eye charts are everywhere. You’d have to be blind if you haven’t ...

Efficient use of space is an important consideration when designing an optometry clinic. Consulting rooms need enough space for examinations, diagnostic equipment, patient seating, storage, and visual ...

The Jaeger chart was designed to test near vision acuity. Eduard Jaeger von Jaxtthal (1818–1884) was an Austrian ophthalmologist and a professor at the University of Vienna who, in the 1850s, made ...

Artificial intelligence could help make eye charts a whole lot better, Zhong-Lin Lu says. Eye charts date back to the middle of the 19th century, and, over the ensuing decades, have changed relatively ...