Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/

by ArmandGrillet • 5 years ago

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rbinv• 5 years ago

Wow, I did not expect the Apple Watch to be able to detect those gestures shown in the video. Impressive.

janekm• 5 years ago

It mentions using the heart rate sensor. I can imagine it went a little like this: A: "People clenching their fists keeps messing up the heart rate readings!" B: "I wonder if..."

ratww2• 5 years ago

Reminds me of the old hack someone did using the accelerometer in a Macbook hard drive to switch between Spaces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQTTPr9Rw

GloriousKoji3• 5 years ago

I don't think there would be that spontaneous of heart rate change due to clenching a fist but I would expect the sensors to get a large jump from baseline due to skin, veins, etc. deforming from clenching.

ngcazz• 5 years ago

Seconded, and I can't wait to try these out - case in point that accessibility options really are for everybody!

codyb• 5 years ago

Yea that's really neat. Thanks to GP I actually went and checked out the video. Clenching and pinching, if that smooth, seem like they'd be less error prone than trying to use the tiny touch screen on the Apple Watch half the time.

twobitshifter2• 5 years ago

Exactly accessibility really benefits everyone. I currently use the floating home button on my iPhone even though I have no physical problems with using the volume and power buttons to take a screenshot, I like using the home button better.

The watch gestures seem useful whenever you have a handful of groceries and need to answer a call.

neither_color• 5 years ago

I always felt that single arm control of Apple watch was the future because the way it ties up both hands felt anachronistic(the hand your watch is on is doing nothing and is constrained while your other hand interacts with the watch, making it less liberating than a phone) but couldn't imagine how this would be solved. Bravo Apple on this brilliant solution.

tW4r• 5 years ago

There’s a startup [1] that I don’t think has shipped yet, but they have a great idea about using nerve conductance sensors to use hand gestures to control the watch. Looks pretty exciting

[1] https://www.mudra-band.com/

sitkack• 5 years ago

The whole UI should be in a transparent hierarchical structure (the DOM? XML? Lisp?) and I should be able to apply any projection or operation on it. Context sensitive bold, or make click targets larger, or script things.

The extensions that the vendor makes, anyone else should be able to make. I'd like to put a soft border around whatever element currently has focus. I'd like to configure my own tab order. I'd like click-lock, drag, unlock, drop so that stuff doesn't magically disappear during a botched drag-and-drop operation.

The desktop UI was a nice hack-demo, but it really isn't that good, anywhere.

user-the-name2• 5 years ago

This is not possible to do while also having a UI that is pleasant to use and looks good. Nor will it get you a UI that is easy to use for disabled people.

What you get is a UI that is average-bad for everyone.

Ar-Curunir• 5 years ago

What you get is a UI that is average-bad for everyone.

I.e., every Linux UI ever. I say that as someone who has used Linux exclusively for ~10 years, for all of the time that I have had my own computer.

astrange3• 5 years ago

That’s not a bad description of how VoiceOver works. Apps export a description of their UI called the accessibility hierarchy.

There are a few UI editing features like high contrast and dynamic type, but not many because of how hard it is to keep the UI usable and allow those changes.

crazygringo• 5 years ago

Everyday sounds can be distracting, discomforting, or overwhelming, and in support of neurodiversity, Apple is introducing new background sounds to help minimize distractions and help users focus, stay calm, or rest. Balanced, bright, or dark noise, as well as ocean, rain, or stream sounds continuously play in the background to mask unwanted environmental or external noise, and the sounds mix into or duck under other audio and system sounds.

Wow, I never thought of background sounds as something connected to neurodiversity, but TIL.

I definitely never expected Apple to get into the business of white noise apps, but here they are.

I wonder what the quality of these sounds will be, how long they'll loop for? And if all the background noise apps that already exist will continue to operate as they do now, or if they'll be able to integrate with this in order to take advantage of the new mixing/ducking features.

BugsJustFindMe3• 5 years ago

I find myself both calmer and more productive with deep brown noise pumped into headphones. That used to mean pulling up simplynoise.com until they started monetizing it (and the legacy site died with Flash). Now I go to something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3sWyjDFC5Y

Apple has a great record for sound quality, but not so much for configurability. I'm guessing that I'd be a candidate for their "dark noise" setting, but worry somewhat about their frequency selections. I'd rather have an equalizer interface for the noise options.

edwcross• 5 years ago

Did you try https://mynoise.net ? It has a lot of selections, including some "colored noises" that maybe match the one you want. Most of it is still free, I think, although a small donation towards the author is very welcome (if you use it enough and think it's worth).

tdstein• 5 years ago

As someone with tinnitus (constant ringing in ears), this sounds amazing! :)

masklinn• 5 years ago

Ditto. Well my tinnitus is not constant, but of course it tends to ramp up when trying to do things where it's really inconvenient, like sleeping.

I wonder if these sounds will be available as part of the bedtime application (thereby sherlocking most existing applications) as that's by far my biggest requirement for covering sounds, the combination of insomnia and tinnitus makes it rather hard to fall asleep without some sort of rain sound, but short or glitchy rain loops create extremely recognisable patterns my brain latches on to have something to do, which keeps me from sleeping.

atommclain• 5 years ago

A decade ago I remember reading that if you’re in the jungle and an apex predator is spotted, it gets relatively quiet, so from an evolutionary perspective quiet signals danger and induces stress. Sounds reasonable to me, can’t speak to how valid it is though.

tantalor• 5 years ago

That's the opposite of what happens in video games like Subnautica, the dramatic music starts playing when the big baddy is about to attack!

KineticLensman• 5 years ago

A decade ago I remember reading that if you’re in the jungle and an apex predator is spotted, it gets relatively quiet, so from an evolutionary perspective quiet signals danger and induces stress. Sounds reasonable to me, can’t speak to how valid it is though.

Many animals will make alarm calls [0] when they sense a predator, sometimes in multi-species groups. A few animals have alarm calls specific to different types of predator such as leopards, snakes and eagles [0]. In my own garden, I can often tell when a cat has entered by the alarm calls emitted by blackbirds and sometimes even squirrels.

So I'm not sure about this quiet jungle thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_signal#Vervet_monkeys

silicon24015• 5 years ago

I'm not sure what exactly they mean by neurodiversity here but as a misanthrope I definitely hate background noise. Before the pandemic I would frequently get distracted by getting irritated at other people nearby talking, chewing, walking, just being around me at all. I also found it helpful to listen to things like forest sounds, rain, and so on sometimes. It does get pretty depressing though when you step back and realize you're listening to artificial nature sounds while staring at a screen under office lights.

danaris• 5 years ago

Before the pandemic I would frequently get distracted by getting irritated at other people nearby talking, chewing, walking, just being around me at all.

That sounds like it could point to some form of undiagnosed (possibly mild) sensory processing issues—which are exactly the kind of neurodiversity they are likely referring to.

dagmx2• 5 years ago

Do you potentially have Misophonia?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/18/7027840...

shade2• 5 years ago

There's a lot of good stuff here, but I have to say I'm disappointed that they still haven't added anything along the lines of Android's Live Captions feature as a system-wide thing for iOS/macOS.

I generally prefer Apple for their strongly pro-privacy stance, but this is something they're dropping the ball on. After living with this feature in Chrome for a while, it's such a big quality of life improvement that for the first time in years, I'm thinking about jumping to Android even though it would incur some extra costs to do so[1].

I can use Loopback to feed audio into the iOS or web version of Otter.ai on my MBP to fill in some of the gaps where Chrome isn't an option (i.e., FaceTime calls with family and friends), but it increasingly feels like a janky solution and I'd rather have something built in.

[1] - I like having a smartwatch so as not to miss notifications so I'd need to find a good enough solution for that, plus my current hearing aid needs an additional supporting device to stream from an Android phone, so that would run up some additional costs.

snyp• 5 years ago

Doesn't Voice Over do that?

chris37879• 5 years ago

Nope, voice over does the exact opposite of that, it takes written text and converts it to speech. Live captions take in audio and output text of the speech in that audio.

joshstrange2• 5 years ago

I can use Loopback to feed audio into the iOS or web version of Otter.ai on my MBP

I'm assuming you are doing iOS->macOS(w/loopback)->Otter.ai web right? Or can you have loopback feed into iOS and then use Mobile Safari+Otter.ai? I currently use a similar setup with Loopback and otter.ai to transcribe YouTube live videos and then do manual touch up before release. I never expected that other people were using Loopback+Otter.ai, I figured I was a fringe/edge case, but after some googling it looks like it's far from an obscure solution.

shade2• 5 years ago

Sort of, yeah. My personal laptop is an M1 MBP, so I can run the iOS version of Otter on it, have the system default audio point to LoopBack with the headphone jack as a monitor (which goes to a device that streams to my hearing aid). Then in my video conference software I set up the system default audio as the sound output and my Logitech C920 webcam as the microphone input. Conference software gets what I'm saying, Otter gets what everyone else is saying, I get captions.

Work is a Windows laptop; I could (and do, on my personal Windows desktop) use VoiceMeeter to accomplish the same general approach as described above. But rather than have my security team at work asking me annoying questions, it's easier to run Otter on my iPad and use a TRS-to-TRRS patch cable (I use the Movo CFP-1 from Amazon) to feed that into my iPad... plus using my iPad to display the captions frees up my displays for meeting-related things.

In pre-pandemic times I would also use it for some meetings at work, and meetups.

I think Otter has a fairly significant user base of people using it for accessibility and not just meeting notes, and is seemingly aware of it because they've added features geared to that use case, like the full screen text option with adjustable font sizes.

nailer• 5 years ago

Apple putting disability support into consumption devices is excellent. The current approach of trying to boil the ocean - by modifying the world rather than helping disabled people handle it better - is a massive waste of resources and results in a poorer world for disabled people.

kstrauser• 5 years ago

With VoiceOver, users can explore more details about an image with descriptions, such as “Slight right profile of a person’s face with curly brown hair smiling.”

I'm imagining some older family members, whose sight isn't so great anymore, listening to descriptions of old photos being read to them. That's stunning. Wow.

jordanmorgan10• 5 years ago

That is a whole other level. Impressive - the watch stuff kinda reminds me of the rotor control in a way where you can activate system actions and swipes.

myth_drannon• 5 years ago

Eye-Tracking Support for iPad. I hope with Apple's track record of usability it will be an improvement over the existing solutions. I used Dynavox camera bolted on Microsoft Surface and their proprietary software and it's painful. Using browser is an impossible task.

pkaye2• 5 years ago

I don't have an iPhone myself but do use hearing aids. I'm glad the big tech companies are paying attention to such details. There are a lot of little details of the hearing aid bluetooth experience that could be improved by all manufacturers. I just want instantaneous switching between multiple bluetooth devices.

nkjoep• 5 years ago

That's something Apple is doing already with their bluetooth W1 chip. Unfortunately only among their devices.

I wish this feature would be adopted by many other manufacturers. And that generally, the bluetooth pairing was faster.

pkaye2• 5 years ago

I've been hearing about Bluetooth LE Audio standard which should help a lot but its just started to be offered in hearing aids. Right now you have to choose between the Apple approach, Google approach or standard bluetooth each with their own limitations.

sjnair96• 5 years ago

It does not work as you'd imagine. It doesn't work for anyone - particularly switching from ios to macos as the currently playing device. It works the other way around fine, and even between iOS and iPadOS. But not iOS to macOS. Other headsets that simply support connecting to multiple devices at a time end up providing a better experience since you can switch between devices easier than with Airpods switching. I'm unsure about how the Airpods Max performs but I'm willing to bet it's the same way.

notatoad• 5 years ago

i'm not hard of hearing so maybe i'm just missing something, but what's the point of the signtime service? wouldn't a text chat be a whole lot easier?

websites4202• 5 years ago

Written English is quite different from ASL. For a person who was born deaf and learned to sign from the start, text chat would not be easier.

This is an acknowledgment that sign is a distinct language and, the same way that Apple Stores are localized in different countries, this localizes the Apple Store experience for DHH folks

Jemaclus• 5 years ago

In addition to what you just said, it's significantly faster to sign than it is to type/text, not to mention the nuances of face-to-face communication that can get lost in a text-based world!

chipotle_coyote• 5 years ago

For a moment I misread the headline here as "Apple prevents powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities," and thought, "Oh for Christ's sake, how did App Store review go off the rails this time".

rado• 5 years ago

Fix keyboard accessibility first, instead of releasing PR bullet points.

joemi• 5 years ago

A good addition is still a good addition.

WalterBright3• 5 years ago

This is really good stuff, even for abled people. For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.

(The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.)

Just like although I can hear, I use closed-captioning when I don't wish to disturb others, or when watching a show at high speed (I can read faster than I can understand speech).

robin_reala• 5 years ago

Actually, that’s an important point. A person with an occupied hand is still disabled, but it’s a situational disability rather than a temporary or permanent one. Disability is society’s inability to cater to specific needs, rather than a physical state.

tolbish12• 5 years ago

I'm not sure how much that definition holds water. Am I disabled if I'm temporarily not able to do cognitive work?

Jakob• 5 years ago

Microsoft’s Inclusive Design Manual gives an excellent high-level view of context-dependent disability:

  “Disability is not just a health problem. It is a
  complex phenomenon, reflecting the interaction between
  features of a person’s body and features of the society
  in which he or she lives.”
  –World Health Organization

https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/0/d/b0d4bf87-09ce-...

iPhone’s accessibility features are great for everybody. I use them all the time, e.g.

- “Display Curtain” switches off only the display while the app is still running. Great for people who do not need the screen for whatever reason: I use this for video-conferencing software. Everybody still can see me, but my display is off, reducing heat and battery usage.

- Display grayscale: I used this in the past to successfully reduce time spent on my phone.

- Voice control: Many do not even categorize that under “Accessibility” anymore

fao_• 5 years ago

For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.

Surely... it's a requirement to use a watch while one-handed anyway? I'm not familiar with the Apple Watch but I am not sure how you would use a watch with two hands anyway? Can someone explain?

chrisshroba• 5 years ago

See the "AssistiveTouch for Apple Watch" section of the linked post. This allows you to use the watch with the same hand that is wearing the watch.

ratww2• 5 years ago

The Apple Watch is a smart watch with a touchscreen, it's not just for seeing the hour.

WalterBright3• 5 years ago

My watch has a button on it for the backlight.

silicon24015• 5 years ago

Agreed. As a huge customization fan, accessibility features oftentimes are the only way to get customization options that aren't exposed otherwise. One that comes to mind is setting your display to black and white, disabling animations, etc. Thankfully I don't have any disabilities, but I hate animations and other things like that, so I'm also a huge fan of accessibility features.

dylan6043• 5 years ago

(I can read faster than I can understand speech).

Is this really true, or can you just read faster than most people talk?

macintux2• 5 years ago

For me, at least, reading offers significant advantages to listening when it comes to intake speed. I can trivially rewind if I need to, I can more readily skim content that I understand, fewer comprehension failures due to accent/pronunciation issues, etc.

BugsJustFindMe3• 5 years ago

Captions appear at the same average rate as the speech they're captioning.

vineyardmike• 5 years ago

its true for me.

I have trouble focusing on speech, so i often end up responding with "what?" then a few seconds later, it makes sense and i can respond. Writing is easy to injest at the rate your brain wants it.

BlueTemplar2• 5 years ago

I often notice that I read transcripts significantly faster than the audio time...

thebean11• 5 years ago

Super excited to be able to scroll my grocery list on the watch while holding the basket in the other hand!

meristohm• 5 years ago

A friend who can only see degrees of light turned me onto text-to-speech for listening to epubs. Android’s default was good enough, and Librera, for example, allows for custom pronunciation. Listening by TTS is a way to keep reading while walking to work, for example, and be able to stop and highlight or make notes (which can be done by voice, I just haven’t switched from using my eyes and hands for that).

jonpurdy• 5 years ago

I accidentally discovered this a year ago. I found that listening to the audiobook and reading along with the ePub was a great way to ingest the material even when in a tired state (since the audiobook keeps playing. Having the ePub also meant I could highlight and export my highlights as usual.

I did try this with iOS built-in TTS but found it was worth the effort to find the audiobook when possible.

Nition2• 5 years ago

The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.

I also wear a watch, but almost every car has a built-in clock in the dashboard.

WalterBright3• 5 years ago

almost every car has a built-in clock in the dashboard

So do mine, but they always show the wrong time.

slver3• 5 years ago

It's really odd sometimes how much they focus on disability features, while also completely ignoring localization in entire countries.

saagarjha2• 5 years ago

My guess is that they aren’t comfortable shipping any localization unless they can make it perfect, and they don’t have that yet.

slver3• 5 years ago

What kind of a nonsense reason is this. If they actually did the work it'd be just as good as any other locale they do support.

Why can Microsoft and Google offer excellent localization virtually everywhere, and Apple can't? Apple too poor, can't hire enough people? No. So what is it?

rsfinn• 5 years ago

1) I wonder if it's a cost-benefit analysis regarding relative market sizes?

2) I'm genuinely curious which countries you perceive as having been "ignored" -- I find 39 different .lproj folders in the /System/Library/CoreServices/Resources folder. (Of course that's on macOS and not the iPhone.)

slver3• 5 years ago

Counting .lproj files tells you nothing. I technically have a keyboard layout for my country (although it supports no autocomplete or swipe). No translated UI, no dictation, no Siri, no nothing. But I'm sure that keyboard layout gets me an .lproj file.

zepto3• 5 years ago

“Nothing here that can’t be done on Linux, with better customization.”

I get that there are reasons why people would want nothing to do with any of this and just objects to Apple because the desktop doesn’t ship with a tiling window manager.

But to me this stuff illustrates why we actually need companies like Apple.

Retr0spectrum• 5 years ago

Who are you quoting?

zepto3• 5 years ago

A common archetype.

owenversteeg• 5 years ago

A few years back I tried to set up Android’s TalkBack for my 90 year old blind grandmother, but unfortunately it was impossible to use. Even as someone who’s very familiar with the Android UI (and can see what I’m doing) I found it very difficult. I’ve heard iPhones are a million times better for blind users, but is their accessibility technology good enough that I could teach my grandmother to use them?

The problem is that she has very little tech experience, so things are confusing. Imagine being 90 and blind and feeling your way around a brand new user interface, full of acronyms and words you don’t understand. What’s a SIM or a VPN or a JPG? Then again, all she needs to do is send texts, Google things, and make calls. Taking pictures would also be nice.

If anyone here has a similar experience helping an old blind person with tech, I’d love to hear it.

CharlesW• 5 years ago

If anyone here has a similar experience helping an old blind person with tech, I’d love to hear it.

I'm afraid I don't, but you might find this helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrUMYePxzfM

Rebelgecko• 5 years ago

An Alexa or similar device might be a good option. I got one for my nearly blind grandma and she got some use out of it. There's a learning curve but I think it's a lot less steep than using a phone OS.

GloriousKoji3• 5 years ago

One time I broke my iPhone screen but the digitizer was still working so I used it like a blind person would for a few weeks. It's definitely far ahead of android or anything else in that regard.

Check out the older videos of Tommy Edison on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/c/TommyEdisonXP). He's been blind since birth and put out a few videos many years ago on how he uses an iPhone.

twobitshifter2• 5 years ago

I've seen blind people do amazing things with an iphone. The girl I remember played it almost like a flute with the iphone held up to her ear.

anticristi2• 5 years ago

These next-generation technologies showcase Apple’s belief that accessibility is a human right and advance the company’s long history of delivering industry-leading features that make Apple products customizable for all users.

I read this more like: We saturated the laptop market. Then we saturated the smartphone market. Then we saturated the smart watch market. So how the heck are we supposed to grow revenue? So someone smart came up with the idea: Disabled people!

I sure applaud that they eventually cared, but I don't think their PR is honest.

alwillis• 5 years ago

Apple certainly doesn’t have the dominant marketshare with desktops or laptops; even in the US, they’re about 40-45%.

Apple’s been advocating for accessibility for decades; this isn’t new.

astrange3• 5 years ago

iOS has been the most usable UI for people with various disabilities since it came out.

sergiotapia• 5 years ago

Q: Why do they call it "limb differences" instead of what I learned it a decade ago as "disabilities". Is "disabilities" considered offensive?

saagarjha2• 5 years ago

Some people don’t like being labeled as “disabled”, because that may have the connotation that they’re not able to do as much as an “abled” person.

pilsetnieks• 5 years ago

The page is literally titled "Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities."

I assume this is simply being more specific.

duskwuff• 5 years ago

No; "disabilities" is insufficiently specific. The features that Apple is adding to Apple Watch wouldn't help a blind user, for example -- they're specifically targeted at users with limb differences (like a missing or abnormally formed arm) which would prevent them from touching one wrist with the opposite hand.

victor106• 5 years ago

i just to say Apple is one of the only companies that I know of is super serious about providing first class features to people with disabilities. Other companies do provide some of them but they are not as well thought out as Apple

kingsuper20• 5 years ago

In an ideal world, it seems to me like everyone needs a different interface with a computer, whether it's a website or an application (remember those?).

Waving a wand, I'd take something like a banking website (let's say Bank of America as an example) and strip out all the cruft. A text-only interface that (maybe) just looks like a simple early-version-of-Windows application. I'll grant that Amazon and eBay require the ability to put up images, Vanguard and Fidelity most certainly do not.

What you could do then is to make them all alike, it's not like these sites are particularly different. Maybe the equivalent of an RSS feed app could run the lot.

The thing is, a deaf or blind person could ask for the same thing just with their own particular abilities in mind.

/oldmanrant

punnerud• 5 years ago

Ironic; in Norway this introduction of eye tracing on iPad could be bad for those who has severe disabilities, because when it is easily accessible in normal stores you will no longer get them funded as a helping aid, and you then have to pay from your own pocket. This forward the burden on the families and dividing the society.

mrkramer• 5 years ago

Good updates for accessibility.

api• 5 years ago

I'm impressed and also a bit disturbed by the vast and widening gulf between commercial OS UI/UX (especially Apple) and anything remotely FOSS. At this point I'd say FOSS UI/UX is at least 20 years behind Apple.

fomine3• 5 years ago

Thankfully Android (without Google stuff) is technically FOSS.

krrrh2• 5 years ago

At first I snickered about how your comment implied that they were at par 20 years ago when the year of desktop Linux was upon us.

But desktop Linux with GNOME 1.x and 2.x were actually pretty consistent any enjoyable to use. It was still different enough from the early unpolished OSX releases, but had its own strengths and some nice touches. OSX 10.0 was arguably a regression from NeXT and OpenStep by then seemed pretty close to NeXTStep in terms of user experience.

Ironically as GNOME openly pursued a more Apple-like approach of reduced configuration and “smart defaults”, OSX just seemed to pull ahead. They couldn’t out-Apple Apple and yet GNOME sucked up so many resources and default installs from corporate Linux that other environments couldn’t really compete.

I probably also just got too old to unironically run Enlightenment.

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escapologybb• 5 years ago

My money doesn't seem to fit in any of the slots on my computer...

Apple just keeps knocking it out of the park and into a completely new sports metaphor assistive technology provision, they really do. Any measure, I'm a massive nerd/geek/hacker and I really have looked into alternatives both in the open source and proprietary basis and nobody at all is assistive technology as well as at all right now.

It really is as simple as whenever I have a new iShiny, I pounds on the nearest able-bodied monkey and get them to take total box and connected to Wi-Fi and then it's all me. From then on I don't need any more able-bodied assistance whatsoever with setting up the new device, it's awesome. And whilst it's been a few months, the last time I looked known of the other major players were able to come anywhere close to this level of frictionless setup for quadriplegics like me.

ALSO! ALSO! Let's not forget that this isn't some crappy subset of functions that quadriplegics have to settle for whilst everybody else gets the full fat version of the software. Nope, with very few exceptions pretty much anything an able-bodied person can do with their iShiny I'll be able to do as well. Just a little slower.

Apple, and specifically their approach to accessibility is only one of many reasons I'm able to work, see my family and generally engage with society as well as I currently do.

Also, I quite like the term cripple, differently abled or on a good day Stuart. WTF cares what label you give me, I am much more interested in whether this laptop enables me to do the shopping independently and see my Nieces without having to check with an able-bodied person first.

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