North East technology entrepreneur heads to China

The Gateshead-based entrepreneur behind a product to help dyslexic and visually impaired people to make full use of the internet, is taking his ideas to China as part of George Osborne’s British trade delegation this week.

Ross Linnett, founder of Recite Me Ltd, is one of only 20 technology companies chosen to take part in the high profile trade mission from a list of over 100 British firms.

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 and we offer a Cloud-based platform 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 was chosen as part of the delegation shows that the British and Chinese governments are starting to take web accessibility seriously.

“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 (UKTI) 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 & The Livingstone Foundation.