How can a blind machinist make parts for airplanes?
By utilizing adaptive technology, such as computer screen-reading software (e.g., ZoomText, JAWS (Job Access With Speech)), voicing calipers, large-print keyboards, blind and Deaf-Blind machinists can operate CNC (computer numeric controlled) machinery to create aircraft parts just as easily as sighted machinists. It is because of this equipment that our machinists create more than 5,000 unique parts, and 45,000 individual part pieces per month (540,000 per year) for The Boeing Company each year with an acceptance rate of more than 99.9%.
