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Saturday, April 13, 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/350287p-2868652c.html Smaller firms attend to disabled computer users DAVID COLKER, Los Angeles Times Physicist Stephen Hawking owes his voice to Words+, a Lancaster, Calif., company that makes communication devices for the disabled. Lou Gehrig's disease long ago robbed him of speech, but the use of a highly sensitive pressure switch hooked into a specially designed word processor has allowed Hawking not only to write his best-selling "A Brief History of Time" but also to send e-mail, lecture and hold conversations often spiced with his sarcastic humor. Words+ devices have had a similarly liberating effect for thousands of people worldwide, making the company one of the big-time players in the field of technology for the disabled....
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