Now I just ask you to please join me in welcoming Attorney General Reno. I want to thank the FOSE organizers for providing me the opportunity to be here today to address FOSE 2000. All of us are finding new, different, and often better ways to communicate and to share ideas and information, work, and knowledge, and this applies to each one of us. I'm learning an awful lot from the younger people in the office. Technology has also enhanced the lives of people with disabilities.
Blind people can use computers equipped with special software called screen readers.
Screen readers say out loud the text that would normally appear on a computer monitor. People with quadriplegia can use voice recognition software. People who are deaf or hard of hearing can use text telephones. I have seen firsthand how technology can enable Department of Justice employees with disabilities to excel. Sadly, though, the employment rate of people with disabilities has not kept pace with improvements in technology.