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Workplace achievers: Sandra Schmidt

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Workplace achievers: Sandra Schmidt

New technology has made it easier for many people with disabilities to enter or remain in the labour market. In 2006 Sandra Schmidt, an information officer at the Royal New Zealand Institute of the Blind, used a magnified screen, contact lenses and thick glasses to enable her to do her work. 

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Martin Sullivan, Disability and disability organisations – Patterns of disability, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29192/workplace-achievers-sandra-schmidt (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Martin Sullivan, published 30 March 2011.