{"id":7663,"date":"2018-10-25T00:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T07:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7663"},"modified":"2018-10-25T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T23:06:05","slug":"power-to-the-people-voice-helps-a-kid-find-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/power-to-the-people-voice-helps-a-kid-find-autonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Power to the people: Voice UI helps a kid find autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/accessibility\/robbie-iveys-story-how-technology-removes-barriers\/\">This<\/a> is pretty rad:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Robbie has duchenne muscular dystrophy, which has left him able to control only his eyes, head and right thumb joint. [\u2026] Bill Weis, a retired tech worker [\u2026] <strong>set up Robbie\u2019s bed to be controlled by voice<\/strong> activation. While working on the bed, Bill had an epiphany: if he can control the bed this way, <strong>why not everything else<\/strong> in Robbie\u2019s bedroom universe?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the story of tech + kindness + grit:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lxuOxQzDN3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/NewImage-15.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"337\" border=\"0\" \/>--><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lxuOxQzDN3Y\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty rad: Robbie has duchenne muscular dystrophy, which has left him able to control only his eyes, head and right thumb joint. [\u2026] Bill Weis, a retired tech worker [\u2026] set up Robbie\u2019s bed to be controlled by voice activation. While working on the bed, Bill had an epiphany: if he can control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7675,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}