‘Blind Leading the Blind’ presented by Leigh Sales on this weeks episode of Australian Story on ABC.
Mick Curran and Jamie Teh were childhood friends who bonded over their love of music and technology.
As their friendship grew, so did their idea to transform the world for people just like them. Mick and Jamie are both blind.
The pair first met at braille music camp in NSW aged 9 and 10 and reconnected six years later.
These two teenage computer nerds were frustrated that they had to buy expensive screen-reading software to make their computers accessible.
“Why should a blind person have to pay an extra thousand dollars in order to use a computer?”, asks Mick.
They set about changing that by creating a piece of screen-reading software and giving it away for free.
“It was absolutely life changing because it meant that people could suddenly access…
