Colleagues:

This is a special plea from the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). We want to benefit from, and we want others to benefit from, your experience
and success using unix and linux professionally. We are asking you to consider joining our Careers & Technology Information Bank (CTIB).

AFB's Careers & Technology Information Bank (CTIB) is a database of information based on interviews with 2,000 blind
                                         or visually impaired people about their jobs and the technology they use.

While all CTIB members use technology professionally, very few have listed unix and linux based technologies among the tools they use on the job. We
believe this does not properly reflect the true breadth of technologies professionally used by people who are blind or visually impaired. We're asking
you to help us provide a more accurate and complete picture of employment and technology today. Please consider joining the CTIB. We would greatly
appreciate your assistance, as will those students, parents, counselors, and teachers who want to know that many careers and assistive technologies are
available to people who are blind or visually impaired. 


-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org