Hi, I guess I really didn't articulate my point very well at all, sorry about that. I think I was trying to articulate that solving one disability problem for

Hi, I guess I really didn't articulate my point very well at all, sorry about that. I think I was trying to articulate that solving one disability problem for one type of disability almost always has applications for people with other types of disabilities, a very simple example is ramps and widening doors for people in big wheelchairs. That wider door and ramp can also be used by people with other disabilities. As you quite rightly point out there are no panaceas, there is no one application to suit everybody; that would be impractical. What companies could do more of is open up their API's so that people can solve their own problems, that way if the widget you've just bought doesn't quite fit your disability but has an open API the option exists for you to tailor it to your needs. This is how I fly my Parrot drone, it wasn't designed to enable disabled people to use but they left a little space I could solve my problems. Obviously not everyone has that ability, but with an open API other companies could create products and solutions for existing products and services. I'm not sure I agree with you about the disposable income part of your argument, if we can work a big enough scale we can make things affordable. But to get there we need companies to spend a lot of money on as you quite rightly pointed out talent, time and treasure. And unfortunately only Apple seems to be even slightly moving in the right direction. Also in the UK we have the NHS who has enormous purchasing power and would be totally willing to pay for low-cost devices that solve particular disability problems, that way those people don't take up expensive hospital beds. At the moment, it needs a giant amount of investment and as you also pointed out that's probably going to be governments if it's done at all.