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Kevin Carey's recent column in Ability, in which he argues that blind workers using access technology take longer to carry out tasks than sighted people, is the subject of an edition of the BBC's InTouch programme.

One listener said that he can read printed material more quickly than his sighted colleagues when he uses his screen-reading software and that disabled people should be 'talked up' by people such as Carey.

Listen here to the criticisms and Carey's response to them.

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Editor John Lamb was interviewed by Alan Russell from RNIB's Insight Radio about his trip to CSUN conference. This year the themes were efforts to enable disabled people to access jobs in government and the overhaul of Section 508: the law that ensures public sector systems are accessible. Hear John's take on the world's largest gathering on assistive technology held this year in San Diego.