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impairments, social media, listservs, and blindness-specific websites. Potential
study participants completed a prescreen survey to determine eligibility.
For the present study, data were obtained from Survey 1 and Survey 2. Data
collection for Survey 1 occurred between May and September 2021. Survey 2 data
collection occurred the following year, from June to August 2022. Additional
recruitment occurred in 2022, resulting in new participants who answered selected
questions from Survey 1 and all questions from Survey 2. Eligible participants
were invited to complete each survey either online via a personal survey link
generated by Qualtrics or by telephone.
To focus on younger adults who may have received AT training from a
TSVI, we restricted the sample to currently employed participants born after 1980
who experienced vision loss before the age of 19. The final sample included 121
participants, whose demographic information is presented in Table 1.
Variables
Participants were asked to identify the types of AT they used at work by
selecting from a list of 28 options in Survey 1. For research question 1, we focused
on 20 of the most commonly used AT reported in Survey 1. The list of AT was
revised for Survey 2, with the most notable change being the replacement of built-
