Ted Henter

The screen reader. Henter, a motorcycle racer blinded in a car crash in 1978, retrained as a programmer and in 1987 co-founded Henter-Joyce with Bill Joyce in Florida. Their JAWS screen reader spoke what was on a computer screen and let blind users navigate with the keyboard, first in DOS and from 1995 in Windows, becoming the standard in workplaces. Its high price was long a barrier, which later free readers such as NVDA challenged.