Making Access for People with Disabilities

Makers Making Change connects makers to people with disabilities who need assistive technologies. We have a repository of open source assistive technologies, and can connect makers to a person with a disability to build access solutions.

What inspired you to begin investigating your topic or inspired you to make your project?:
We began engaging in the maker community through a Google.org impact award for our first major open source access project, the LipSync. The LipSync (www.neilsquire.ca/lipsync) enables a person that has no use of their hands to use a touchscreen device. Since then, we have been building a social network, Makers Making Change, focused on connecting makers to people with disabilities to make access solutions. We are collecting and currating different maker "access" projects and supporting them in scaling to new communities.