Modifies a noun

• peer: Braille readers vary in ability even more than their sighted peers.

• helper: Wherever possible, it is perhaps best for the blind or visually impaired student to dictate to a sighted helper.

• companion: The booklet has been produced for use by a sighted companion and has been focus tested with visually impaired groups.

• viewer: A sighted viewer will form an impression of the room.

• people: Very short sighted people may need to remove their distance glasses to see money in their hands.

• person: Is such a picture less real than the picture which a sighted person has?

Modifying Another Word

• partially: Only a small minority of partially sighted people have no useful sight.

• blind/partially: What rule might a blind/partially sighted person put at the top of her/his list?

• fully: Children with visual impairment often read at a much slower pace than fully sighted peers.

• far: Come on, some far sighted publisher - get this book out.

• short: It seems short sighted to insist the everyone should buy native hardware.

• normally: Visual acuity is expressed in terms of the average vision of a normally sighted person.

Used with adjective complement

• register: I am registered partially sighted - can I get help with buying my glasses?

• seem: It seems short sighted to insist the everyone should buy native hardware.