"Computer software that helps colour-blind people recognise colours they find hard to detect could be available by the end of the month.
Invented by Computer Science student Luke Jefferson, the software integrates models of colour vision deficiency, allowing the user to adjust colours for their own particular type of colour-blindness.
Named Huetility, it enables the user to place a transparent “window” over any part of their screen and improves the colours beneath it.
Mr Jefferson and his business partner Luke Walsh hope that opticians will promote the software to patients when they are first diagnosed with colour-blindness.
Mr Walsh, a 25-year-old Electronics student at the University of York, said: “Initially our software will be available online and through opticians. Currently opticians have nothing to offer someone who has been diagnosed as colour-blind and when we spoke to a number of high-street opticians about our software we received a really positive response.”
The duo, who met whilst on an entrepreneurship scholarship in America, set up a company called Scratchface last summer to develop and sell the product through and are now finalists in the first HSBC Unipreneurs Awards later this month.
The pair’s idea is one of five that have been selected from over 400 applications and will be vying to win the £20,000 prize when the awards ceremony takes place in London on April 23.
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