Without hopefully appearing too flippant; what purpose would they serve?

A blind person entitled to free glasses??? Would be interesting to see them undergoing a sight test!!! Must be a Friday!!!

Just buy the frames.

Cant believe I just read that. Please tell me we are not thinking of providing prescription glasses. I am sure that blind people have their own glassess if they wanted them. The use of DSE would not change anything

I have an employee who is registered blind, uses DSE and wears prescription glasses ! When someone is registered blind, they will be in one of two categories :- - sight impaired (partially sighted) - severely sight impaired (blind) Some of the responses above fail to take into account that a large number of people who are registered as having severely sight impaired (blind), actually have some vision. The employee concerned is registered as being severely sight impaired (blind). They suffer from an incurable degenerative eye disease which has left them with very limited peripheral vision. They require a very specific prescription for their glasses because of their condition, which is for everyday activity and also suitable for DSE use. I regularly review the DSE assessment of their workstation, but we don’t provide them with an eye test or glasses. Because of their condition, they have very regular free eye tests and get free prescription glasses from the NHS. As a company, we are also part of the Job Centres Disability Symbol programme. This enables us to get funding to adapt the individuals workstation with aides, for example we have recently added a scanner that magnifies documents so that they can read them on a large screen.

As an aside, this thread reminds me of an occasion many years ago when some student friends and I took musical instruments and larynxes to help entertain a pack of blind cub scouts during a weekend camp. During the session we asked the cubs if they had any favourite songs. They said “Quartermaster’s Store”, so we started off playing/singing it and the cubs promptly joined in. We discovered why they liked the song because they found the chorus especially amusing. (“My eyes are dim, I cannot see, I have not brought my specs with me, I have not brought my specs with me.”). Their hilarity seemed to be heightened by detecting the discomfort/embarrassment which some of us inevitably felt as we got to the chorus for the first time and suddenly realised how ironical its words were for the cubs!