When filming a story about Mick Curran and Jamie Teh, producer Kristine Taylor discovered a common mistake sighted people often make when interacting with people who are blind.
It's now used by 275,000 people in 175 countries and has been translated into 50 languages. We were travelling with Jamie and Mick to document the impact their software is having in Samoa.
Kristine Taylor and camera operator Anthony Sines sit down for an interview with NVDA co-founder Jamie Teh . There's so much that you take for granted as a sighted person, tiny details that you pick up and process, that a person who is vision-impaired doesn't. I said to Mick and Jamie when we first started filming that they would need to let me know what I was doing right and, more importantly, what I was doing wrong. They were not shy in pointing out the latter. Anyone who has watched the program will have noticed their sense of humour on the trip — we had a lot of laughs, much of it at our expense.
In fact, nothing much differed with Mick and Jamie — it was like any other Australian Story interview, however, for any sequences outside the home we would ensure we orientated them in the space first.One thing Mick and Jamie had told me was that when blind or vision-impaired people got together in a room, they did not always feel it was necessary to face each other, so they might end up chatting away enthusiastically while facing in all different directions.
Jamie Teh and Mick Curran are sought after for their experience with accessibility for vision-impaired people.
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