One Thumb to Rule Them All

Mike Phillips is a gamer and freelance technology writer born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In this 3.5 minute video, he explores the frontiers of accessibility, playing games such as World of Warcraft and Unreal Tournament 2004 with just his thumb, a proximity switch, Origin Instrument's Swifty ™ switch interface and AssistiveWare's SwitchXS ® software. Mike not only uses his Mac to play games, he also writes game reviews for Inside Mac Games , presents at conferences, wrote chapters for several books, works on a novel and is active as a photographer and digital artist. Mike Phillips lives in Tampa, FL, United States of America.

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One Thumb to Rule Them All is an episode from Exploring the Frontiers of Assistive Technology by David Niemeijer.

This episode is 3:43 long.

This episode was published on May 22, 2007.

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