The objective of this study is to obtain basic data to prepare recommendations to ensure and improve safety and comfort of the moving environment for visually impaired persons, by means of surveying and clarifying how is the actual situations of walking e -mail users on cellular phones as a barrier to visually impaired persons_ The survey was conducted in March 2007 by telephone interviews with, and by distribution of questionnaire sheets by e-mail to, 13 visually impaired students, who are sophomores at a university in Tokyo_ The current survey has confirmed that all of the surveyed students have experienced collisions with pedestrians, and that five of them have collided with walking e-mail users on cellular phones. Many of them have shown a firm view that e-mailing on cellular phones should be done at the places where no troubles are anticipated to others. Our study plans for the future to develop measures to ensure and improve safety and comfort of the moving environment for disabled persons, by comparing result of the current study with results of the surveys in the past on the influence of cellular phone e-mail users upon wheelchair users, as well as on the current situation of use of e-mailing on cellular phones by university students during walking.