InclusionBridge: Disability Dongle Compatibility Suite

I have a buddy who did his Human Factors PHd at wright state/wright patt nearly 15 years ago."Tech people" have a lot of lies they believe, about disabilities, about valid addresses, everything.When he told me that schools for the blind train their student to fact check things like directions and not simply rely on a single source while navigating new terrain it clicked for me that the sighted have no clue and sympathy is more honest and less presumptive/simulative than empathy.But to be sympathetic you have to listen to actual user feedback and do actual observation, with empathy you just get

Changing infrastructure would cost way less than buying hardware for all disabled people.So you don’t solve the problem, you just solve it for a tiny group of wealthy people

> Maybe, just maybe, that's because inventing something is actually within their graspThe problem is that inventing a solution that no-one needs or wants and then using venture money to hype it up feels like rubbing salt in a wound for the very people they're claiming to try to help.The point is they're not actually trying to help those people. They're using them as a marketing tool to further their own ambition to make money.The anger is understandable.