| Terry Bartlett from a small town on New Zealand's | | | | for the vision-impaired, has been the availability of a |
| south island is an unusual business owner. Bartlett is | | | | business accounting system that provides all of the |
| blind, but rather than letting his disability pitch him into | | | | accurate, computer-based features that any business |
| the common scenario of being either unemployed or | | | | operator would regard as part of their "toolkit". |
| underemployed, he has made it his mission to create | | | | However, Bartlett mounted a search for such |
| a global network for not only the blind, but disabled | | | | systems and when he found one, approached and |
| people generally to find ways to start their own | | | | worked with the software providers to help refine it |
| businesses and run them efficiently. | | | | for disabled users. |
| Until now, however, a major impediment, particularly | | | | |