A young entrepreneur from the University of East Anglia has been named a national finalist in a prestigious business competition for his pioneering invention. 

Luke Jefferson, a 28-year-old PhD student, is in the running to win £20,000 after coming up with computer software to help the men and women who are colour-blind across the country to use computer programs.

Their company, Scratchface Limited, has developed algorithms which allow colour-blind people to change the colours on computer screens to suit the level of their own impairment so they can work more easily with certain graphics, colour coded data and charts.

“I developed the software because I went on placement at a graphic design company who wanted to make their corporate identity as accessible as possible, including to people with colour-blindness. I’m not colour-blind myself but I have worked with two to three hundred people who are.” Jefferson said.

“I am hoping to get it into opticians, as currently, once you are diagnosed, there is nothing to help.”

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