blindness
Let an agent handle blindness respectfully, routing sudden vision loss to urgent care, supporting accessibility and rights, and giving no diagnosis.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Urgent Sudden loss.
Sudden
Vision loss.
Sudden
Sudden vision loss.
- Has vision been lost suddenly or with pain, flashes or a curtain? boundary
- Which emergency or urgent eye service should be contacted now? action
Diagnosis
No self-diagnosis.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis limit.
- Is the user asking the agent to diagnose their vision problem? boundary
- How should they be referred? action
Support Services.
Services
Sight loss support.
Services
Sight loss services.
- Which sight loss organisations and rehabilitation services exist here? provenance
- How can someone register as sight impaired? action
Mobility
Canes and guide dogs.
Mobility
Mobility support.
- How can someone get mobility training or a guide dog? action
- Which organisations provide them? provenance
Access Accessibility.
Digital
Screen readers.
Digital
Digital accessibility.
- Does the content work with screen readers and meet WCAG? boundary
- How can it be tested? action
Formats
Braille and audio.
Formats
Accessible formats.
- Where can braille, large print or audio formats be obtained? provenance
- Does the Marrakesh Treaty help here? provenance
Respect Language and rights.
Language
Preferred terms.
Language
Respectful language.
- Which terms does the person prefer, such as blind or partially sighted? provenance
- Is patronising language avoided? boundary
Rights
Disability rights.
Rights
Rights.
- What rights to adjustments apply at work, school or services? provenance
- How can a complaint be made? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Other names and narrower kinds
- hysterical blindness, loss of vision, color blindness, temporary blindness, flash blindness, Riddoch syndrome, acquired color blindness, red–green color blindness, congenital color blindness, partial color blindness, dyschromatopsia, monochromacy
What it is Filled
The inability to see, or severely reduced vision, which may be total or partial, present from birth or acquired through disease or injury; related conditions include colour vision deficiency and temporary blindness. Blind and partially sighted people are supported by accessibility and rights frameworks.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle blindness respectfully, routing sudden vision loss to urgent care, supporting accessibility and rights, and giving no diagnosis.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Severe vision impairment
- Many causes
- Supported by assistive technology
- Protected by disability rights
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose the cause of a person's vision loss.
- Use patronising or stigmatising language about blind people.
- Publish inaccessible content where an accessible version is required.
- Lead or guide a blind person somewhere without their consent.
Only with a human decision
- Medical decisions about a person's eyesight.
- Disclosing a person's visual impairment to others.
May
- Make content accessible to blind and partially sighted people, such as with text alternatives.
- Point people with sudden vision loss to urgent medical care.
- Describe rights and support services for blind people from official sources.
Moral aspects Filled
- Blind people have equal rights to information, travel and work.
- Sudden vision loss is an emergency where delay can make it permanent.
Who is affected
- Blind and partially sighted people
- Their families and carers
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the condition; each person decides about their own care, with support from health services.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q102186718 - registry parent class
- Q737460 - registry parent class
related
- visual impairment - category
- assistive technology - support
- disability - framework
- colour vision deficiency - related condition
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.blindness
- Wikidata: Q10874 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10874)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Total or partial sight loss
- White canes and guide dogs
- Colour vision deficiency is a different condition
- Not always visible; some people use canes, guide dogs or assistive devices.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- recognise sudden vision loss as an emergency
- find sight loss support services
- make content and spaces accessible
- find information on assistive technology
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Delaying care for sudden vision loss
- Inaccessible content
- Patronising language
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- WCAG accessibility guidelines
- Marrakesh Treaty on accessible formats
- Disability rights law
Context of use required Filled
- Understanding vision loss, accessibility and support.
- total blindness
- partial sight and low vision
- congenital blindness
- acquired blindness
- temporary and flash blindness
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q10874: blindness - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Blindness - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should levels of sight loss be separate entries?
- How should support services be localised?
- How should alias lists be curated?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q10874/spec.json