A television based visual screening method involves sequentially presenting a plurality of numbers of varying size on a television display receiving a plurality of signals from a remote controller as a result of a user input from a keypad of the remote controller determining if the signals received from the remote controller match the displayed numbers deriving a measure of the users vision from the matching of the received signals with the displayed numbers and displaying a result indicative of the measure of the users vision from the measure. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
