In Touch - 04/05/2010

Torsten Brand devised a pioneering form of access technolgoy called Talx, which allowed blind people to access mobile phones in the same way as sighted people. Torsten recently died tragically early, due to a routine operation going wrong, and tributes are being paid to him around the world. Terry Clasper and Jonathan Mosen pay their own respects to Torsten. Ailsa Irvine, from the Electoral Commission, offers advice on how blind and partially-sighted people can get the best out of their polling station on Thursday and explains the assistance and accessible formats which are available to enable people to vote as independently as possible. There is also reaction to earlier programmes from Phil Jenkins and Susannah Hancock.