The pre-employment programs are essential. You can't get a job if you don't know how to cross the street safely or if you lack orientation and mobility skills. You can't get a job if you don't have independent living skills. If you don't know how to feed, dress, and take care of yourself, you're not going to get a job. If you don't have the communication and soft skills, you're not going to get the job.
It's really important for people, especially those who are blind or partially sighted, to learn all of the skill sets around adaptive technology, Braille instruction, and so on, because if you can't communicate through computers, you're not going to get the job.
The first thing I would suggest to anybody with vision loss is to go get your pre-employment skills taken care of. Practise them. Get them the best you can, and then once you've done that, I would say that you should volunteer. Get educated and network, network, network. It really doesn't matter who you know; it's who knows you. So get out there and make sure people know you.