But no other technology did more to isolate the deaf. So Kerscher globe-trots 100 days a year trying to make computer technology accessible to the blind. His office is wherever he sets up his laptop. Home is Montana, where he lives with his wife, Gail, a hospice nurse. It was started in 1948 to record books for blind World War II soldiers so they could use the GI Bill to go back to school.
Volunteers record the texts, down to arcane scientific formulas.
Computers and the Internet create opportunities for learning that those first blind GIs never imagined.