Access to information is crucial for the blind person’s success in education, but transferring knowledge about the existence of techniques into actually being able to complete those tasks is what will ultimately improve the blind person’s employment prospects. This paper is based on the experiences of the two authors; as blind academics in statistics, we are dependent on the usefulness of statistical software for blind users more than most blind people. The use of the “we” throughout this article is intentionally meant to be personal in terms of our own experiences but more importantly, also reflects the needs of the blind community as a whole.