[Hackability] hey is this list active anymore?

[Romy Ilano]

I enjoyed talking to people on here. Breaking my ankle and getting around
in SF opened my eyes to a lot of issues!

A lot of the accessibility APIs are so easy to implement on mobile phones
nowadays. Apple and I think Google are doing a cool job - I'm sure there
are open source projects.

Even if we don't have time to do these projects every day they are pretty
cool. i think a lot of early PhD work on location based technology came up
with scenarios around not just military work but also tools to help the
disabled.

So in a way you can say that helping "vision impaired/hearing impaired" (I
don't know the correct terms) people were major things that pushed
innovation in tech forward.

*Wasn't the guy who invented the digital text OCR technology concerned only
about helping blind people read first?*

it is blind and deaf people who are part of the tech revolution!

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Romy Ilano
romy at snowyla.com
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