Beyond Employment Rates: Earnings of People With Visual Impairments

McDonnall, Michele C.; Cmar, Jennifer L.; McKnight, Zhen S.

doi:10.1177/0145482x221121830

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“…In terms of employment, a study conducted in the United States found that the unemployment rate for blind individuals is nearly double that of the general population [3]. Additionally, blind individuals are more likely to work in low-paying jobs with limited opportunities for advancement [4]. Blind individuals are also more likely to live in poverty and are less likely to own their own homes.…”

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ChatGPT for Visually Impaired and Blind

Kuzdeuov¹,

Nurgaliyev²,

Varol³

2023

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<p>According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than hundreds of million people have some type of visual disability today. Vision impairment has a personal impact with lifelong consequences because more than 80\% of our perception, cognition, learning, and daily activities are mediated through vision. As a result, visually impaired and blind people stagnate at work and in education due to inaccessible technologies. In this regard, we present a speech-based assistive system for visually impaired and blind people to interact with ChatGPT. The system employs automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and a messenger bot (Telegram) to enable a natural interface to ChatGPT for people with visual disabilities. Our preliminary experiments showed the feasibility of the proposed system as an assistive technology. We have made the source code publicly available at https://github.com/IS2AI/telegram-bot-chatgpt to stimulate the development of assistive systems for the visually impaired and blind.</p>

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ChatGPT for Visually Impaired and Blind

Kuzdeuov¹,

Nurgaliyev²,

Varol³

2023

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“…Substantial gaps in earnings between men and women with and without visual impairments exist; the gaps decreased, but persisted when taking education level into account (McDonnall et al, 2022d).…”

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“…Employment rates for those who received SSDI were substantially lower—12.4% compared to 58.8% for non-recipients—which contributes noticeably to the overall employment rate for the population (McDonnall et al, 2022c). Substantial gaps in earnings between men and women with and without visual impairments exist; the gaps decreased, but persisted when taking education level into account (McDonnall et al, 2022d). People with visual impairments were significantly more likely to be self-employed and less likely to work for for-profit businesses than those without visual impairments.…”

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