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By Sophie Huskisson A quarter of businesses say they would not be willing to adapt their workplaces to employ a blind or partially sighted person, research has found. One in five companies said adjustments to make their firm more accessible would be too costly, with nearly half not knowing how to access extra funding to support visually impaired people, the poll of 2,000 businesses showed. Currently just one in four blind and partially sighted people of working age are in employment. People are facing barriers at the first hurdle with nearly half of companies not offering accessible recruitmen…

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