Advocates the use of CD‐ROM technology to enable blind or visually impaired library users to access information, which can be downloaded on to a disk and then treated in one of three ways: it can be translated into and printed in Braille; it can have the text enlarged sufficiently for a visually impaired person to read it; or it can be read aloud by screen‐reading software. Evaluates some of the reference CD‐ROMs available and lists the equipment that will be needed in order to provide access for the users.