Hi;
I was trying to be on my good behavior but can't resist.  Personally 
they should have saved the paper and done something more substantial. 
After I retired in 2007 got board and went looking for a retirement job. 
  Didn't want to many hours and didn't need any excess stress.  I was 
primarily looking at call centers since I can talk on the phone and use 
a computer.  Guico which you have all seen on the tube has a call center 
in the area and never hired a blind person.  A local bank hired a girl 
at their call center who fell in love and left.  I started working at 
something called roswell park cancer institute.  The job would certainly 
not have been my choice for my life's work but this was for extra cash. 
  Discovered that lots of their software wouldn't work with window-eyes 
or in some cases they simply refused to try it with window-eyes because 
their software had issues and there were concerns that a screen reader 
might make things worse.  There was some of their software that was 
usable and I've been doing my part time thing for a while.  They 
recently came out with a new program and when you go through the 
material you have to read there are about four scanned words.  Why these 
words were scanned in rather than put in via txt is a mystery but it 
made that little project unusable.  There are lots of potential jobs out 
there thanks to the computer but companies or hospitals especially those 
living on grant money should be required to make their software usable.
So we have lots of new jobs that in many cases can't be done by a blind 
person because of software issues and older jobs that many uf us may 
have never considered such as vending and tuning are going away.  Don't 
think a vender in a hospital has much of a chance when a Duncan 
doughnuts opens in the lobby.
To end on a positive note, however, if anyone out there is job shopping 
the trick is to stay in the market and sooner or later something will 
come up.
-- 
richard