We would like to respond to the Letter to the Editor that was published in the September–October 2020 issue of the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, written by William Koehler, to clarify some aspects of our work that are referenced in it. To begin, Mr. Koehler states that our manuscript (McDonnall & Antonelli, 2019) suggests that the 70% rate of unemployment often attributed to people with blindness or low vision is inaccurate, and he seems to indicate that this finding was associated with research based on the Employer Attitudes Toward Blind Employees Scale (EABES). The publication referenced did not focus on unemployment rates; it did, however, mention in the Introduction section the current rates of employment and unemployment as documented by the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017 American Community Survey (ACS). As such, these were not “new rates of unemployment.” We reported the most current unemployment rates, as defined by the U.S. federal government, for people who report visual difficulties. We did not define unemployment in a new way; we simply used the government definition, as described in McDonnall and Sui (2019). The unemployment rates were mentioned only to describe the challenge with employment that many people with blindness and low vision experience, but they did not in any way define or constrain our study of employers that utilized the EABES (McDonnall & Antonelli, 2019).

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良好的就业和失业率是视力障碍领域的好事还是坏事？

我们想回应发表在2020年9月至2020年9月《视觉障碍与失明杂志》上的致编辑的信由William Koehler撰写，以阐明其中引用的我们工作的某些方面。首先，科勒先生说我们的手稿（McDonnall和Antonelli，2019年）表明，通常归因于盲人或视力低下者的70％的失业率是不准确的，他似乎表明这一发现与基于研究的研究有关。雇主对盲人雇员的态度量表（EABES）。所引用的出版物并未关注失业率；但是，它确实在“简介”部分中提到了美国人口普查局2017年美国社区调查（ACS）记录的当前就业率和失业率。因此，这些并不是“新的失业率”。我们报告了美国联邦政府定义的最新失业率，适用于报告有视觉障碍的人。我们没有以新的方式定义失业；正如McDonnall和Sui（2019）所述，我们仅使用了政府定义。提及失业率仅是为了描述许多盲人和弱视者的就业挑战，但它们并没有以任何方式定义或限制我们对使用EABES的雇主的研究（McDonnall＆Antonelli，2019）。