In regard to the latter, Dr. Bhambra expressed hope that the new eye chart will help put patients at ease. By using it, he added, “we also show an acceptance of the Indigenous culture in ...

Eye doctor Herman Snellen (Dutch, 1834–1908) developed the most commonly used eye chart in the 1860s. The now iconic Snellen chart contains 11 rows of capital letters decreasing in size as the eye ...

Inuit in northern Quebec are now able to take vision tests using the Inuktitut writing system, after two Montreal doctors developed eye exam charts in syllabics. Christian El-Hadad, a McGill ...