NFBO Portland Central Chapter

y on an equal basis with the average sighted person.
• Blindness is a physical characteristic, and the limitations resulting from this normal characteristic can be overcome using alternative techniques to do without sight what an individual would do with sight if he or she had it. (Graphic to the right is an electronic Braille display used for converting print and digital displays into Braille.)
• It is respectable to be blind, and, given proper training, blindness may be reduced to the level of a nuisance or inconvenience.
• The real problem of blindness is not the loss of vision itself, but is wrapped up in all of the public misunderstandings, misconceptions, and superstitions about it.
• Because of these incorrect attitudes with their resulting stereotypes, the blind have organized for the same reasons other minorities have--to make positive social change through collective action.