I feel that I have a visual impairment but technically an impairment cannot be fixed with regular glasses or contacts. I can see with contacts. 
I am near sighted so I have to wear glasses to drive.
I understand. I have to wear them or contacts to eat a plate of food in front of me and see across the street, but I can see really close up perfectly. Now people sometimes include those who dont have contacts and glasses or access to them to be visually impaired as well. They are uber expensive!
Yeah my glasses costed me a little over 300 so I feel your pain.
daily activities such as driving, reading, socializing, and walking.
The most common causes of visual impairment globally are uncorrected refractive errors (43%), cataracts (33%), and glaucoma (2%). Refractive errors include near sighted, far sighted, presbyopia, and astigmatism. Cataracts are the most common cause of blindness. Other disorders that may cause visual problems include age related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, corneal clouding, childhood blindness, and a number of infections. Visual impairment can also be
producer with North One Television which made the film on behalf of Channel 4 said; "I have worked in specialist educational environments before, but I had almost no experience of people with a visual impairment or blindness. I wanted to make a documentary with some of the students to explore with them their daily lives. It is interesting to see what is different for them and what is the same; their experiences of daily life can be fundamentally altered by their visual impairment yet that doesn't stop them from having the same hopes