Roger Wilson-Hinds

Roger Wilson-Hinds

Screenreader

"THE SPEAKERS AREN'T ACADEMICS BUT WITNESSES, AND WE VISIT OTHER ORGANISATIONS NOT AS STUDENTS BUT AS EQUALS"

Roger Wilson-Hinds: It's good to talk

Like many social entrepreneurs, for Roger Wilson-Hinds, it's personal.Partially-sighted himself, he ran a business training blind and visually impaired people to use computers at work for 10 years but became increasingly concerned about the 80% of blind people not in employment who had no access to expensive screenreading software.

Four years ago he began developing low cost screenreading software to address this problem.He started selling the software through his company Screenreader two years ago and came to SSE to develop the project.
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Through the SSE programme Roger has learnt the language of business, ,It may be elementary to those that know but not to people that don't,' he says. ,I've also learnt to share and work with other people and gained the confidence that comes from being in a small group of people all grappling with the same problems.
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Now Roger's got the bug and would like eventually to hand his business on and concentrate on new challenges - one of which is looking at introducing the SSE philosophy and training model to the local Blind Business Association where he thinks it could make a significant difference.

Roger Wilson-Hinds company can be found at www.screenreader.co.uk

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Roger Wilson-Hinds, one of the screenreader.net Directors, says: " We are delighted to receive some recognition for what we are doing.
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Roger Wilson-Hinds - Its' good to talk

Students' stories: Roger Wilson-HindsIt's good to talk

Like many social entrepreneurs, for Roger Wilson-Hinds, it's personal.Partially-sighted himself, he ran a business training blind and visually impaired people to use computers at work for 10 years but became increasingly concerned about the 80% of blind people not in employment who had no access to expensive screenreading software.

Four years ago he began developing low cost screenreading software to address this problem.He started selling the software through his company Screenreader two years ago and came to SSE to develop the project.
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Through the SSE programme Roger has learnt the language of business, 'It may be elementary to those that know but not to people that don't,' he says. 'I've also learnt to share and work with other people and gained the confidence that comes from being in a small group of people all grappling with the same problems.
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Now Roger's got the bug and would like eventually to hand his business on and concentrate on new challenges - one of which is looking at introducing the SSE philosophy and training model to the local Blind Business Association where he thinks it could make a significant difference.

Roger Wilson-Hinds company can be found at www.screenreader.co.uk.

In response to Don Wessels from South Africa who requested information on Thunder screen reader in the September issue, Roger Wilson-Hinds, director of Screenreader.net who developed Thunder writes: "We have been using Thunder here since the beginning of the year and it is especially good and easy with WebbIE, its own text browser.

Further information from Roger Wilson-Hinds, ask@screenreader.net

Roger Wilson-Hinds, a Director of Screenreader.net CIC, is one such person who received an Unltd grant to help make talking access software available to all blind people. http://www.unltd.org.uk/

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Roger Wilson-Hinds - Choice Technology and The UMIST Dept of Computer Studies Developing talking computers - providing access and ...