Most people know someone who is blind.
It may be a friend, a family member, or a coworker on the job. In fact, as many as seventy-five thousand Americans become blind each year, and the blind population in the United States is estimated to exceed 1,200,000, with millions more classified as visually impaired. The social and economic consequences of blindness, directly or indirectly, touch the lives of almost every American. Public policies and laws that result from misconceptions or lack of information about blindness are often more limiting than the loss of eyesight itself. This is why we have formed the National Federation of the Blind.