Disabled access to library?

Here's a link to a NewScientist Article which suggests that parapalegics and other disabled people might be able to use a computer by controlling a cursor with their tongues. This opens up the possibility that libraries will be able to provide even greater access to their electronic resources.

I am not able to make a link to NewScientist, print edition, but the latest issue includes a discussion of how autistics, especially those with Asperger's syndrome are really benefitting from the virtual game, Second Life. Originally a neuroscientist started an island in Second Life, to be of therapeutic value to autistics, but many of those who participated then wandered off the island to participate in the larger game. Some autistics rejected the island, and started their own communities, because they see their "condition" as not a disease which needs therapy, but as a variation that should be accepted.

In any case, this shows how web 2.0 and cyberspace, which, according to Lawrence Lessig in Code: Version 2.0, is a richer experience than the internet and one entirely dependent upon virtual space, might be more all-inclusive than the web and the internet have been thus far. The book, Leonardo's Laptop, discusses how universal usability should become a goal, although that book provides a precising definition in terms of approximately 100% of the population. For universal accessibility to become a goal, social networks and relationships, and not just technology will have to be taken into account, and technology will have to be designed with users' needs in mind.