# How technology allowed me to read

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxSydney
- Speaker: Ron McCallum
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_mccallum_how_technology_allowed_me_to_read)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he reads -- and celebrates the progression of clever tools and adaptive computer technologies that make it possible. With their help, and the help of volunteers, he's become a lawyer, an academic, and, most of all, a voracious reader. Welcome to the blind reading revolution.

## Lectures

1. [How technology allowed me to read](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ron_mccallum_how_technology_allowed_me_to_read/242f84fab47a), 16 min (TED's player)