I wonder if stories like this will attract interest from developers.

In Brooklyn, New York, a nearly paralyzed boy, who cannot talk, uses an iPad to tell his mother what he wants to be for Halloween.

“Making things less complicated can actually make a lot of money,” said Gregg C. Vanderheiden, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has worked on accessibility issues for decades.

Money is certainly a motivator for at least some of the developers I know, but there are other reasons to be interested. For example, developers are motivated by a sense of importance — writing software that matters — and by interesting design challenges.