Web accessibility pioneer takes part in Chancellor's technology trade mission to China

GATESHEAD, ENGLAND: Web accessibility pioneer Ross Linnett, CEO and founder of Recite Me Ltd a leading web accessibility company is taking part in the official British trade mission to China led by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.

Only 20 technology companies were chosen to take part in the high profile trade mission, from a list of over a 100 leading British technology firms. Recite Me is the only web accessibility software company on the trade mission.

Ross Linnett said: "I am delighted to be taking Recite Me's web accessibility solutions to China and representing British industry. I believe the Internet should be accessible to everyone. We offer a cloud-based solution that works on any device, anywhere in the world; an ideal solution for economies with developing infrastructure and a heavy reliance on mobile technology. The fact that Recite Me were chosen as part of the delegation shows that the British and Chinese government's are starting to take web accessibility seriously.

"The statistics speak for themselves: there are around 285 million people with a visual impairment in the world, 10-15 percent of the world's population has dyslexia and 774 million people in the world cannot read or write. Recite Me provides the software to make any website more accessible to millions of people, by reading out the content, changing the colour contrast settings or translating into one of 52 languages, including Chinese.

"I founded Recite Me because traditional assistive technology wasn't working for me. I have dyslexia and need to change the settings on my devices so I can read the content more easily, or better still, have it read out to me. I was frustrated because the solution offered to me only worked on one computer. Like everyone else, I wanted to access content on the internet on my tablet, my smartphone or my desktop.

Recite Me is part of the UK Trade & Investment delegation of leading British technology companies, which includes: Busuu, Cambridge Communication Systems, Darktrace, Epic Learning Group, Fat Pebble, Genalys, Immerse Learning, Inspired Gaming Group, Invoke Capital, Kinosis, Level39, Licentia Group, Memrise, Monitise, myPinPad, Omnisoft Services, Sayduck, SwiftKey and The Livingstone Foundation.