Comment by swader999
I love how blind people are replying here. Had the privilege to interview a programmer who was blind once. It floored me how well this guy could work. The speed, the ability to hold code in his mind that had only been read once to him was astounding. He got bested by someone with more specific domain experience and I still regret not being able to work with him.
Programming/IT work is one of the only professional areas in which we can really shine, so it's not surprising there's a lot of us :)