Making time to catch the latest Netflix hit? Easy. Making time to visit the eye doctor? Surprisingly difficult. Enter: Online eye exams — because if you can do it from your couch, why wouldn’t you?

I was about eight years old when I first got glasses. My mum had noticed me starting to shuffle ever closer towards the television, squinting at the screen, to watch Pokemon. I was reading Jacqueline ...

WATCH: A robot from a Boston firm is trying to automate the vision test. Reporter Hiawatha Bray opens our eyes. When you need new eyeglasses, getting an appointment for a vision test is usually the ...