Thoughts on Assistive Technology

It is old news, but I have recently, yes, only recently, got friendly with swype input, (as someone who has the word "technology" in his job title, the shame and dishonor such wilful neglect has brought upon my person is incalculable, but thanks to my new state of the art Android phone, I have the chance to turn this narrative of shame into a narrative of redemption, and nobody needs to commit hara kiri!   Oh, and in case you do not yet know what swype is, it is a word made up of swipe and type, it’s the input mode where your finger goes from B to E without stopping when typing the word, “because”.   I first came across the trace typing technology at annual CSUN Conference on disability in 2011, but respectfully ignored it, because I figured that there's nothing swype can do that typing with auto-correction and/or word-prediction can't do faster. Strictly speaking, I wasn't far off; for someone with minor motor skills impairment, I could swype no more ac