Blind Leading the Blind - Mick Curran and Jamie Teh | Australian Story

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AD-ENABLED | Best friends don’t want a cent from their big tech idea. This is why | Australian Story

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Mick Curran and Jamie Teh are lifelong friends who share a love of music and technology. They're also blind.Both computer programmers, the pair saw an injust...

Are you unfamiliar with how blind people use computers? Are you new to the concept of screen reader software?

NVDA is free, open-source software for Microsoft Windows used by many blind users to interact with their PC through non-visual senses. While NVDA's foundation, NV Access, subsists on donations, the software has become the second most popular screen reader in the world.

This half-hour documentary by ABC News serves as a great introduction to NVDA and the stories of its creators. This show won't tell you how to use NVDA or how it works, but instead will tell you why it exists and why it needs to exist.

(Also, follow NV Access on Mastodon!)