Article: Blind people need help to access IT.

Article: Seminar on IT and employment for blind people.
Vietnamese News Agency;  September 9, 2008 ;     469 words ... ... opportunities for blind people held in central ... organised by the Vietnam Blind Association ... participants agreed that blind people need help to ... president of the Vietnam Blind Association ... Internet have helped blind people get information ...

Article: Vietnamese Government Takes Care of Blind People: ...
Xinhua English Newswire;  December 2, 1997 ;     432 words ... ... importance to helping blind people in the country, senior ... Tran Dinh Hoan said "Vietnam Blind Association (VBA ... more than 26,000 blind people set up and develop ... million Vietnamese blind people with rehabilitation ...

Article: Blind people find lingering workplace bias
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... training have improved to the point that blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array ... only about 30 percent of working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was calculated ... a blind person, so they assume that blind people are not capable of doing most jobs when ...

Article: In workplace, blind people find that technological ...
AP Worldstream;  March 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... training have improved to the point that blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array ... only about 30 percent of working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was calculated ... a blind person, so they assume that blind people are not capable of doing most jobs when ...

Article: Study suggests blind people compensate with more ...
AP Online;  September 16, 1998 ;     588 words ... ... better hearing than people who can see. Blind people apparently compensate for their lost ... that unlike people with normal vision, blind people could correctly pinpoint the source ... question left unanswered is whether blind people learn to use their hearing more efficiently ...

Article: Do blind people track sounds better?(Brief Article)
Science News;  September 19, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... origin when using both ears, but some blind people can home in on sounds more accurately ... sounds. The researchers tested eight blind people, who had been completely sightless ... monaural, listening, four of the eight blind people identified sound sources more accurately ...

Article: Most blind people lost their sight later in ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  February 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... that works to improve opportunities for blind people, says in its packet of information ... Sometimes babies are born blind, but most blind people become blind later on." Illnesses ... adding they might see gray or spots. Blind people can do nearly everything sighted people ...