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The purpose of this paper is to find out how visually impaired people get information on Internet. Visually impaired people has got the right to be able to use the Internet like everyone else. We are also going to revise which aids visually impaired people use today, and how they work in practise. What problems can you run into when you use these aids? We are also going to revise how the webpages design affect the use of the Internet for the visually impaired people. The sites of today tends to contain more and more graphics without alternative texts. The aids a visually impaired person use have problems to interpret the graphics, which leads to that many sites are inaccessible for this group of people . We have interviewed nine visually impaired and blind people to get insight in how they use the Internet and which aids are the most common and how they work in practise. We have come to the conclusion that a lot of visually impaired people today are very dependent of the Internet. These people use sites that they from their own experience knows works. The persons we have talked to told us that they feel that many sites are not adjusted to visually impaired people. At the same time we discovered that the technology to interpret graphics on the Internet actually exists. But this technology is not available since the eye clinics does not realise the importance of updating the aids more often.