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Any business can use publicity, even illicit businesses. The Internet is the easiest way to advertise. I don't see how any business couldn't benefit from the new economy. I used to provide tech support for folks that were connecting to the Internet via dial up. This is not surprising, but I have been on the phone with a deaf person using a text to speech type relay service. This was quite surprising, and I ran into it twice in the 4 months that I did that job. I was able to talk 2 different blind folks through getting on the Internet. It was actually much easier and faster than going through the relay for the deaf person because their computers had a text to speech converter that I could hear through the phone.

So, even blind folks use the Internet.

I guess if you were deaf and blind, you would have to have specialized equipment to utilize the new economy. I'm sure they have it though. Something that "reads" the computer screen and "displays" the contents on a braile display. I saw something like that on the TV show "Covert Affairs" the other day.