Medical Journal, 03/16/2015
A Marburger company has a unique business model: it develops software that allows blind people just can work quickly and efficiently as sighted
From Gesa Coordes
With special software from Marburg blind people can manage their daily work better. Is
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Marburg. Hans Jörg Lienert (58) almost blind. And he is a tinkerer. He wanted to study physics if it had then already been given the appropriate tools.
Today, he is somehow landed on his subjects: The Marburg company “Dräger & amp; Lienert ‘develop software systems that enable blind people to work as quickly and efficiently as sighted
On the. Inventors’ Fair in Nuremberg brought the products three times medals. Even in Canada, Australia and the US, the systems are used.
All countries because there are no other company that specializes in this area, reported Lienert.
While it give expert for barrier-free pages, manufacturers of Braille, magnification systems and screen reader software to improve the work efficiency of blind lacks, however.
“Accessibility far means that you can work well as a blind person even so,” said the CEO. However, he wanted to ensure that his customers compared to their sighted colleagues are competitive.
An example: Those who see the OK buttons found on websites at a glance. A blind man must fight through his speech line by line itself, however. It takes far too long.
Lienerts systems, it is enough to press the “Alt” and “O”. “We reach speeds at which we get sighted in part,” says the CEO.
On the corporate idea came to the IT expert, as he was looking for solutions to their own PC problems. In 1989, he launched the vendor-independent operating company together with his wife Kerstin Dräger Lienert.
Meanwhile, the amount of information and the requirements for the blind have risen sharply. The company now has ten permanent employees and as many freelancers. Observed
Especially in the past two years Lienert an “extreme increase in demand.”
Almost every week there is a train employees to Hamburg, where IBM, Lufthansa, TU Hamburg Harburg and Nordelbische church among the customers are.
The Canadian Federation of the Blind and blind lawyers in the United States and Australia are also among the users.
The core product of the company is the software “Easy Task “which was sold more than 1000 times.
It simplifies workflows such as login procedures, the Google search as well as archiving and copying of texts. In addition, so that software can be developed that is not wheelchair accessible.
Especially for clubs and associations was “DL club” developed. The idea: The Administration – membership management, fundraising, accounting, document management – is usually accepted even in blind associations of seeing.
The software is visually impaired can do this themselves. Commonly used the “Contact Manager” and the electronic telephone directory, can work as a team with the blind and partially sighted -. For example, in a call center or a telephone
In use it is in regional councils, city councils, district administration offices, banks , universities, courts, industries and even in the Federal Chancellery.
A patent the company are provided on “tag it”, a system of order in which objects with a chip, a barcode or QR code.
This enables visually impaired material costs and warehouse management bring in libraries for the blind books themselves and set back or organize.
The company is also involved in an EU project at TU Dresden, where it is important that the blind can see the structure of a room.
Most Lienert be pleased many enthusiastic customers – blind judges, administrators, psychotherapists, self-employed or a teacher. Lienert: “As many blind people to integrate successfully, that’s our goal.”
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