Dean Martineau (Episode 15)

For many in the blind community, Dean Martineau will be a household name. Prolific in the technology sphere, he’s perhaps best known for his Top Tech Tidbits newsletter, which has been published every Thursday for over ten years. In the past, he was also the voice behind the Sound Computing audio magazine, and delivered bespoke technology training under the brand of Top Dot Enterprises. Towards the end of 2018, he started a new initiative which uses a combination of audio tutorials, electronic braille files and the Orbit Reader 20 to deliver personalised, long-distance instruction in the braille code. We caught up with Dean to find out more about the project, as well as the person behind it, just after it launched. We didn’t manage to bring the interview to you at the time, but thought we’d bring it to you now.

To contact Dean, please email topdot@gmail.com.

In other braille news:

• The UKAAF AGM has been moved online
• The ICEB General Assembly has been postponed to the week of 19 October
• Visit www.braillists.org/staysafe for information related to Coronavirus for blind and partially sighted people