The disabled are clamoring for their place on the Internet. What helps them may end up helping everyone.
Life plays funny tricks.
Seven years ago, Marco Sorani had a terrible accident. He was floating facedown in the Pacific when his friends pulled him out of the water. The accident cost Sorani the use of his legs and the ability to move his fingers. Yet that accident launched him on a new career. Today, Sorani is the chief executive of SSB Technologies, a San Francisco-based startup whose software helps companies make their Web sites accessible to the disabled.