Breath Bird Gives Disabled Twitter Users The Ability To Tweet

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Being disabled is scarcely an easy thing. A lot of disabled folks tend to miss out on the great simple things of life. But one thing they won’t have to miss out on is the joy of putting up those little updates about their life via Twitter, thanks to the Breath Bird system.

The Breath Bird system, which is currently available for free on the iOS App Store and is geared for the iPad, allows disabled users who don’t have access to their hands to type Tweets. Basically, a field comes up showing the available letters of the alphabet, and then the Breath Bird system starts running through them, one character at a time. When the desired character is highlighted, a breath of air into a microphone selects the character, which is in turn transferred to the Tweet bubble located above the grid of letters. Then, the completed post is posted to Twitter.

It’s no doubt cumbersome; I haven’t actually tried it myself but just the description leaves me a bit winded. Still though, for folks who want to get in on the Twitter phenomenon but find their hands and arms unwilling to cooperate in the whole typing facet? I’d say this would be a wish come true for plenty of them.

I like most anything that lets everybody get in on the internet to its fullest, and while this won’t completely replicate the experience, it will serve as something of a start, with hopefully a lot more similar innovation to follow. I can’t help but give kudos to the folks behind this and hope it helps out a lot of people.

What do you guys think here? Is this the kind of thing we need to see more of? Or is this just a sop to the disabled folks out there, and we need to get moving on more authentic internet access tools for the disabled? Either way, we want to hear from you, so head on down to the comments section and tell us what you think!