"Statistics show that businesses are losing out on 25% of their customers through a lack of accessibility, estimated to be worth £7billion."
In this episode I’m chatting to Ross Linnett, CEO of Recite Me. Ross Linnett was diagnosed with dyslexia at university. With the difficulties that he faced using technology, he had the idea to develop a more user friendly accessibility toolbar. Recite Me enables people to adapt websites to their needs, providing a text to speech function, custom styling features, reading support aids and a translation tool with over 100 languages, and many other features.
I’m quite happy to admit I’ve had a good time playing around with the features. It’s incredible what it can do. I did a three minute video showing how it works on my website.
I'm chatting to Ross about why he decided to develop this software and how important it is for businesses and advisers to think about these things. We talk about what it is like when you are dyslexic and how when you are faced with financial documentation, you sometimes avoid those really important conversations and decisions on financial matters, so that you don't have to deal with the paperwork.
The 3 key takeaways:
● How providing accessible websites and services is a legal requirement for UK businesses.
● Statistics show that businesses are losing out on 25% of their customers through a lack of accessibility, estimated to be worth £7billion.
● ReciteMe only requires a couple of lines of coding to be integrated into your website to improve your customer outreach.
Next week I will be chatting with Alison Esson from AIG. We are going to be talking about the different services that are available with the Smart Health support and why value added services are getting so much attention right now.
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