While there are no FDA-cleared Snellen test apps, at least one other vision test application has pursued and secured FDA clearances in recent years. A few months ago, Vital Art and Science, developers ...

A smartphone-based test for visual acuity is as accurate and repeatable as currently available standard visual acuity tests, according to a new study published online May 28 in JAMA Ophthalmology. The ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac, January 18th, 1908, 107 years ago today . . . the day the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen died at the age of 73. You may not recognize his name, ...

A smartphone app was found to be useful and reliable by clinicians when testing vision for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Assessing vision was found to be easy by families and reliable by ...

What if you could give yourself a standard eye exam at home? That’s the idea behind [Joel, Margot, and Yuchen]’s final project for [Bruce Land]’s ECE 4760—simulating the standard Snellen eye chart ...