It wasn't a great reply, but thanks. What it basically comes down to is that we very much need to be able to use the apps and sites that other people take for granted. What we don't really need is a weekend hack and a press release that says someone created a miracle app for the blind. There's been too much of that already.

Here's some ideas for (hard) things to do:

- Contribute to open source projects to make them more accessible
- Contribute to NVDA or other open source screen reader projects
- Hack a VR platform to help people with low vision
- Make fun games that aren't Yahtzee. We have Yahtzee. Audiogames are good but IMO text-based games that anyone (sighted or blind) can play are better
- Make accessible IDEs for popular programming languages. There's a need for an accessible Python IDE on OSX, for example. Many blind people are trying to learn to code.
- Apply machine learning to graphical user interfaces to make them accessible. Would be a nice fallback when things aren't screen reader accessible and could make some AAA games accessible
- Hack on a sensory substitution project. The one that's furthest along (I think) is the vOICe, which renders soundsscapes of images. There's a lot of potential there for the CS-inclined and applications for robotics if you, say, figure out some ecolocation tech.

I'm a coder myself (mostly web apps), so maybe that colors my stance. Sorry if my response was touchy at all, and good hacking!