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As touch screen technology has continued to infiltrate modern life, vocal members of the visually impaired community have had mixed reactions. Some have decried the technology as inherently discriminatory, and that it should not be used in consumer electronics. Others have simply been concerned that, with the snail's pace at which access technology innovations come, low- and no-vision users would find themselves left behind. And still others, like myself, have vocally voiced the opinion that, sooner rather than later, this technology would be available to the visually impaired, and that, like it or not, we will have to adapt to it. A virtually identical debate arose twenty years ago with the advent of graphical user interfaces, (GUI), and a large percentage of the VI community feared being left behind then, too. Today, the vast majority of blind computer users are happily productive in Mac OS X, Windows, or Gnome LInux.

While iTunes is cool,, it is not always a good thing to stay tethered to your Mac. It would be nice, therefore, to take your library with you wherever you go. Apple has obliged us by creating the line of players that we know as the iPod. Most reading this article know full well what an iPod is, but for those that don’t, here is a brief explanation.