“I’m always asking how technology can help a person who has a disability become more independent,” said Kavita Krishnaswamy.

Earlier this summer, social media (and a smattering of conventional media, too) were filled with images of disability-rights activists’ protests

These words you're reading now are a kind of small miracle. For you see, I can't actually write letters in the conventional sense.

One summer some years ago, my motorized wheelchair abruptly stopped working. The joystick that controlled it simply would not engage. The chair was de