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Life for people with disability can be harder than for those without disability and it's often thought their impairments are the reason why. But some advocates say another reason people with disability can feel locked out of society is because of attitudes and the design of the world around them. Nick Parsons is blind and now a partner at a Boutique Law Firm in Sydney. He says he had to leave a job earlier in his career because the computer systems were incompatible with his screen reader.

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00:00If I got given a task, I couldn't just go away and look through the documents for that
00:09case and I would need to first, you know, ask someone to tell me what the documents
00:14were in the case.
00:16I think everyone probably has felt when you're starting a new job, you feel like you've got
00:22a lot to prove, right?
00:23You want to prove yourself, you know, get in early or stay back late.
00:27I couldn't do that. So I felt like I had my hands tied behind my back. It made me feel
00:34inadequate and unable to contribute in what should be fairly low level type of work.
00:43How do you become senior if you can't fulfil the roles of the more, you know, junior positions?
00:50Well how are you ever going to make it to a more senior position?
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