Some people find it harder to do everyday tasks like choosing clothes or making a cup of tea. There are a number of solutions to these problems, including the use of special equipment. For example, different shaped buttons stitched into garments can be used to identify their colour. Some people may need to learn new ways of doing things, like counting as they pour water into a teapot so that they know when it is full. Some people with sight loss can read ordinary print, but only very slowly, and sometimes only with a magnifier.
Some people can manage large print but find reading a whole page is time-consuming and exhausting.
And some people prefer to listen to tapes or ask sighted people to read to them. A small number of blind and partially sighted people use tactile systems like braille or Moon. Braille consists of raised dots which can be read with a finger. Each combination of dots represents a different letter or number. Moon is similar but uses embossed curves and lines instead of dots.