Wheelchair users share how smart technology has opened more opportunities for everyone

Smart speakers, speech-to-text, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality … groundbreaking technological innovations like these have never been developed with people with spinal cord injuries and other mobility disabilities in the room. Many tech companies’ products either aren’t accessible at all, aren’t as accessible as they claim to be or are marketed as fully accessible even though they are too expensive or so user-unfriendly that the average person with a mobility disability is excluded. Until now. Check out how wheelchair users are sharing their experiences and insights to help tech companies make their products more accessible from the ground up.

You can read more on this topic in this New Mobility magazine article.