{"id":5850,"date":"2023-06-07T09:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2023-06-07T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:25:45","slug":"founders-parade-martin-mckay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2023\/06\/07\/founders-parade-martin-mckay\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders Parade &#8211; Martin McKay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Founder:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Martin McKay, Co-founder and CEO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Venture:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/texthelp.com\">TextHelp<\/a>\u00a0is a literacy and numeracy software development company, with Read &amp; Write, eQuatio, BrowseAsloud, wriQ as the signature products. Accessibility is a key component and value of the company, with a focus on Text-to-speech and note taking solutions that reduce cognitive load for students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0McKay has been described as a &#8216;technology visionary&#8217; and was a co-founder of TextHelp in 1996. He attributes his interest in assistive technology to the experiences he had as a youth with his father losing his ability to speak and read after a stroke. Martin was a finalist for Ireland&#8217;s entrepreneur of the year in 2022, with acquisitions in USA, Norway and Denmark of direct competitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My thoughts:\u00a0<\/strong>McKay has a compelling vision of accessibility and focuses on that in a singular way to drive success forward. McKay has had a hand in broadening the scope of what we think is possible regarding assistive technology, with simple and usable products that are flexible across digital platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.texthelp.com\/about\/press-release\/texthelp-appoints-new-ceo\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.texthelp.com\/about\/founders-story\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder:\u00a0\u00a0Martin McKay, Co-founder and CEO Venture:\u00a0\u00a0TextHelp\u00a0is a literacy and numeracy software development company, with Read &amp; Write, eQuatio, BrowseAsloud, wriQ as the signature products. Accessibility&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2023\/06\/07\/founders-parade-martin-mckay\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Founders Parade &#8211; Martin McKay<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":96613,"featured_media":5851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founders-parade","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/5852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}