Wheelchair control of iPod
Zongyi Yang, a Tetra volunteer with the GTA chapter, put together this custom wheelchair-iPod interface for Eric, a client who has also been volunteering with the chapter for a few months. Eric has been using his new custom interface for a few days now, which allows him to access all features in his iPod using the sip & puff switches mounted on his wheelchair. He even set up the text-to-speech feature on the iPod so he doesn’t have to look at the device anymore like we see on the video. This definitely goes to show that adding accessibility features to mainstream devices makes them a lot easier to use for everybody.
We should also note that this was Zongyi’s first (and hopefully not last) project with Tetra, quite impressive huh?