Malka BethOn the one hand I keep seeing some ableds insist that every "new" custom wheelchair with a video is going to become available to every disabled person who wants to use one to improve their quality of life, nevermind that the technology been around & pretty indistinguishable in overall look in custom chairs to what said new video shows, has existed for at least 30, often over 50 years, they think this is "the one" & think it provides so much hope & inspiration to & for disabled people.... and when I point out how completely ridiculous this actually is, in the expectation that people like me, who definitely can use wheelchairs sometimes to help improve the quality of our lives, will ever actually get them, I'm told that it is me who is the problem.
On the other hand I keep seeing at least some ableds insist that cell phone hardware commonly available now is universally accessible to all disabled people, as are all other computers, even as I've seen & owned what once was very commonly available hardware which was better for my disability accessibility needs (which really the same set of medical issues that would have the chair sometimes helpful) over a decade ago..... and again this is generally pushed as an attitude problem of mine....
Ideally I'd really love both - near zero turning radii power wheelchairs custom fit & available to me for under $400 out of pocket, including the costs of my getting measured for it, so that I can actually afford to save up for & get one.....and a degoogled smartphone with a physical keyboard built at least close to military rugged standards for falls/impact resistance, as old ones were....
but if I'm going to pick one --- I'd prefer the more realistic option, which is the phone/minicomputer because even if I could afford 2 custom wheelchairs, for days we could use them on things like shopping trips together, we'd need a bigger vehicle just to make sure we could fit the chairs & ourselves without destroying said vehicle on how heavy these chairs would be.