You lost me with the 'they/their/them' speech. Clearly, you mean well, but you're not one of us.

Yes, there are success stories but the overwhelming majority of us are not given credit for what we know or can do.

If you, special person, can see how ONE person bucked the odds? Good on you! That person is your poster child, a rare and cherished statistic. I'm glad for them. I know a few, myself. I've been one a time or two.

YouTube? Seriously? How much more fringe and in a closet, safely tucked away from competing for a sighted person's livelihood can you get?

Miss me with the invisibility. I have skills, training, degrees, certifications, life experience. I get the 'settle down, accept your government benefit and be HAPPY" speech from voc rehab on the regular, like so many of us do. I don't need it from a stranger or the 'alternative track' employment speech from employers uncomfortable with the letters ADA or the word accommodation or the ones who've never heard them or learn them from their liability insurance underwriters after I've been hired.

Try making your company COMPLETELY integrated for any PWD who submits an application. Try a period of Zero Denials toward qualified disabled applicants or GENUINELY look at the ways you get around hiring us. (a valid driver's license for a janitor or receprionist, for example. Just keep moving with that slap.) And fix them.

Hit me with some of that "I have a Solution For You" motivation in quantifiable results/changes or advertising for actual, attainable, well-paying jobs for us and you'll get more respect.

I'll continue with my service work in lieu of waiting. I know how this ends.

Accessibility Specialist/Engineer. I am fully blind and I help make apps and websites accessible for us plus am a voice/advocate for all users with disabilities, teaching empathetic design and showing developers the end-user experience. It's a mix of UX design and quality engineering.

I got my job through an angry Tweet when an app I use regularly released an inaccessible update. The company brought me in to talk with the engineering team and they liked my input so much they wanted me in on a regular consulting basis. Working hard to turn it into a full-time position, but the amount of change I've been able to directly influence has been amazing! You definitely have to make your own jobs if there is a need to be filled and no one is filling that need.

This is a terribly limited list done by someone who believes we can only do things related to/because of our blindness. Many of us work in competitive positions held by sighted people. You have fallen into the exact trap you claim to be knowledgable about. Stop patronizing us and sell your shit elsewhere.

I have a friend who went blind over the course of a few years. He says as soon as he started carrying his white cane the job market for him dried up. He hasn’t been able to get a job for a while now.

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While it's a shame to remove the great responses our users have given you from view, I'm locking removing this post. Completely unacceptable.

My mom was a secretary before she got married and had kids. She would type out letters/correspondence dictated to her. She could still type faster than anyone I knew when I was a kid (pre-computer age).