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Hello, communicators:

Since the pandemic, many companies are exploring new accessibility communication tools to help differently-abled stakeholders interact with their content.

The latest example comes in the form of a new, experimental device that turns thoughts into text and has helped a paralyzed man quickly construct sentences on a computer screen. The man was able to generate text with 95% accuracy just by imagining that he was handwriting the letters on paper.

“The system relies on electrodes surgically implanted near the part of the brain that controls movement,” reports NPR. “The team’s success decoding imagined handwriting is just the latest advance in efforts to link computers to the human brain. The handwriting approach ‘has brought neural interfaces that allow rapid communication much closer to a practical reality,’ wrote Pavithra Rajeswaran and Amy L. Orsborn of the University of Washington.”