Sir, – A letter to The Irish Times (February 16th, 2022) kicked off a campaign to get digital Leaving Certificate exam papers for blind and vision-impaired students in February 2022. I am happy to tell you that my son and other low-vision students were given digital papers this year.
What a difference it has made. For the first time, they were not totally reliant on a reader to access all of the questions. For the first time, they had some parity with their sighted peers. For the first time, they could access the paper in the way they have accessed all their information throughout their secondary education.
It was a long fight, a difficult fight and hard won. Your newspaper started it, other newspapers joined in, then radio stations and the Community Law and Mediation Centre all got behind us in this battle.
A small victory with a huge impact.
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Matt Williams: Take a deep breath and see how Sam Prendergast copes with big Fiji test
Take a bow. – Yours, etc,
EITHNE WALSH,
Féach – Supporting All
Blind and Vision-Impaired Young People,
Wicklow.