Checkout System Helps Visually Impaired Return to Work

A $400 piece of equipment that allows Robert Wilkins to work as a cashier at a Fuddruckers in Montana despite the fact that he's nearly blind could be incorporated into nearly any retail environment, the Missoulian reports. A partnership with the Montana Vocational Rehabilitation program, Montana Blind and Low Vision Services, Opportunity Resources Inc. and a local Fuddruckers franchisee led to the successful trial of a system that allows the 28-year-old Wilkins to enter orders using Braille and a bill reader that tells him how much money he's putting in the register and how much chan...