One of the saddest stories I ever heard was a blind chap who had to contend with laundromats that have gone digital. Before he could navigate by himself after a short tutorial by someone in charge. But when the machines went digital he suddenly had to have help for *everything*.

If they're developing the technology, I can see a large market for applications like this where the amount of information needed on the panel is quite straightforward.

Eve

I understand why such things happen - it does save a lot of time and money to wilfully ignore part of the population! 

On the bright side, the potential of 3D-printed technologies aside, slow but steady improvements in voice interfaces are helping a little, though I'm not sure I'd want to trust my laundry to the occasionally wild interpretations of Siri or Google speech recognition just yet.

This is another step ahead by BC than other provinces. I remember last time it was an open textbook site built up.

New Brunswick post-secondary institutions develop online tool to help persons with disabilities (Link via Stephen Downes)