Empowering the Visually Impaired: Education, Advocacy, and Support Visual disability refers to a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses. The main types of visual disability are refractive errors, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, uncorrected refractive errors and age-related macular degeneration. Refractive errors occur when the eyes cannot clearly focus light onto the retina and include...