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Top Tech Tidbits Founder Dean Martineau Offers Technology Training for Sight LossLogo for Dean Martineau on a plain white background, made entirely of type with no symbol or picture. Text reads: 'Dean Martineau' on a single line, in very large, heavy, near-black letters that run across most of the frame. Centered directly beneath it, in much smaller and lighter letters of the same clean sans serif typeface, a tagline reads: 'Technology Training for Sight Loss'. The typeface, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, comes from the Braille Institute and is shaped so each letter is easy to tell apart. Wide white margins surround the logo on every side.

Top Tech Tidbits Founder Dean Martineau Offers Technology Training for Sight Loss

Published November 12, 2026 by Aaron Di Blasi

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, welcomes back Dean Martineau, who founded Top Tech Tidbits in December of 2004. Beginning with the November 12, 2026 issue, Dean is once again a Sponsor of Top Tech Tidbits, offering affordable remote technology training for sight loss, in screen readers, Windows, Braille and iOS, to people anywhere in the world.

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JAWS Power Tip: How To Choose the Right Web Verbosity Level to Fit Your NeedsAn image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Choose the Right Web Verbosity Level to Fit Your Needs

Published November 5, 2026 by Top Tech Tidbits

When you browse the web, JAWS can announce both the page’s content and its structure. Structural information includes headings, regions, forms, tables, lists, and the beginning or end of those elements.

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Top Tech Tidbits Surpasses 50,000 Weekly ReadersTop Tech Tidbits. The Week's News in Access Technology. Eight photos. 1: A young girl with down syndrome smiles enthusiastically while cutting paper at school. 2: A man with a prosthetic right leg goes for a run. 3: A man in a wheelchair smiles on a sunny day as he is lifted into a bus. 4: A blind man wearing sun glasses in a park holds a white cane in his right hand and a phone in his left. 5: A woman with black and blonde hair wears a hearing aid at work. 6: Fingers read braille through a refreshable braille display. 7: A man makes the sign for 'family' in American Sign Language (ASL). 8: A woman uses magnification software on a tablet to read a magazine.

Top Tech Tidbits Surpasses 50,000 Weekly Readers

Published November 2, 2026 by Aaron Di Blasi

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, announces that the world’s leading not-for-profit access technology publication has surpassed 50,000 weekly readers, almost seven times its 7,435 subscribers of June 2020. Under the pricing formula of $50 USD per month for every 10,000 readers, a new Sponsorship Package now costs $250 USD per month, while current Sponsors keep their rate and quarterly and annual Sponsors keep their free Featured Advertisement credits.

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JAWS Power Tip: How To Display All Formulas in an Excel Worksheet with JAWSAn image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Display All Formulas in an Excel Worksheet with JAWS

Published October 29, 2026 by Top Tech Tidbits

Formulas are instructions that tell Excel to calculate results from your data, and they matter because they automatically update when the underlying numbers change. Displaying all formulas in a worksheet helps you review how the spreadsheet works, find errors, and confirm that calculations are using the correct cells.

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JAWS Power Tip: How To Virtualize a Window in JAWS to Read Its ContentsAn image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Virtualize a Window in JAWS to Read Its Contents

Published October 22, 2026 by Top Tech Tidbits

You can virtualize a window using JAWS to create a temporary, text-based copy of its contents. It lets you review information in a clean reading view, even when the original window is difficult to navigate.

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