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Article: In workplace, blind people find that technological progress hasn't stopped lingering bias
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- March 16, 2008
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Technology and training have improved to the point that blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array of jobs _ soon to include the governorship of New York. The biggest obstacle still in their way, advocates say, is the negative attitude of many employers.
The most recent available statistics suggest that only about 30 percent of working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was calculated more than 10 years ago, but the major groups lobbying on behalf of blind Americans believe it remains accurate despite numerous technological advances.
"Most people don't know a blind person, so they assume that blind people are not capable of doing most jobs when in fact ...