Brett Devoo has been unable to see since he was 16, and he takes prescribed medication every single day.

High-tech glasses are supposed to help him find the right bottle. But they are not always working.

“I’m kind of always finding that I have found my own way of making things accessible. When it came to different kinds of bottles of different pills, I used them like different kinds of tape. It’s a hockey tape like stick tape, the kind of fabric stuff,” he tells CityNews.

15-year-old Elvin Nguyen has a friend with the same medication challenge.

“I saw one of the things he was struggling with most was medication adherence following his like disorder, so he wasn’t able to really see the labels well,” Nguyen said.

More than 70 per cent of Canadians with vision loss take prescribed medica

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