newly proposed Arabic near vision chart

ABSTRACT

Since Snellen's principle for measuring the visual acuity for far, challanging ideas were proposed for a scientific principle to measure the acuity for near. The Snellen's principle has never been applied for near vision charts. Instead, the point system was adopted officially by the British ophthalmic society since 1955. Every ophthalmic community has adopted a written chart in its own language. The Parinaud chart in French has been calibrated to give the corresponding to the far visual acuity. We tried to design a chart in Arabic based on the print system of 0.35 mm [The smallest print size and its multitudes] written in a simple, unpredictable way with no political, religious or social inclinations. We have chosen the type of writing, the most commonly read [EI-Bagdadi method]