Martineau also records computer-related topics on tape. He travels to Tacoma a few days out of the week and works at his home in Lake Stevens other days, he said. Martineau's business, Top Dot Enterprises, specializes in taped tutorials that teach computer usage to the blind. He is also a mediator with the Dispute Resolution Center in Snohomish County. But blind people have limited access to Web sites highly formatted with graphics, he said.
Images maps are impossible for blind people to access.
Blind people want to get the information and not the cute stuff, he said. When he finds a site that is not accessible, he'll zip off an e-mail stating his concerns to the site administrator. Sometimes he'll hear back and other times he won't, he said. According to Martineau, it doesn't take that much more work to make sites accessible to everyone. Creators should just be aware when designing a site, he said.