Here is a little tidbit that may interest you, if you didn't see it. While the Internet's World Wide Web and Microsoft's Windows '95 have increased popular interest in personal computers and in the information superhighway, we Americans who are blind or otherwise visually impaired are being forced onto a side road.
Computer software ignores the blind.
Corporate executives, computer systems analysts, airline reservations agents as well as professors and lawyers use this equipment to download research services and write books and briefs. Apple and I.B.M. have developed software that makes their operating systems accessible to us, but most of the information technology developed for the mass market has been designed with virtually no consideration for people with limited eyesight. Windows 95, the world's most popular operating system, relies on graphics that are difficult and sometimes impossible to transform for voice or Braille playback. The same is true of Netscape, one of the most popular ways to access the Internet. Agencies for the blind are receiving numerous reports from clients who say they can't get or keep jobs because of Windows software.