SPEAIT Andre

  There are many solutions to make computers usable for people with different disabilities or impairments. Some of those are Braille displays and keyboards, speech synthesizer and screen reader. Rocky Stoutenburgh had an accident at the age of 19 where he fell and landed the wrong way. He dislocated two of his thoracic vertebrae and severed his spinal cord. He was diagnosed with quadriplegia. This left him paralyzed from the neck down. He has had some improvements but he still can hardly roll his shoulders. Before the accident Rocky really enjoyed gaming and couldn’t play from some years. His disability didn’t stop him from continuing. He said that at that time there weren’t a lot of great options for disabled gamers. His brother showed him a gaming controller designed for quadriplegics and they decided to try it. The first model wasn’t very great, it kept falling apart. Five years later a new model of this device was released and Rocky started to test it out. The controller is a mou