Assistive and Accessible Tech
The web and other technologies should be accessible to all people. The ability to use technology regardless of disability or status is a fundamental precursor to that technology serving civic goals.
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Disability and Access in Tech and AI Summit
The Disability and Access in Tech and AI Summit, powered by YAI, is our annual conference to discuss issues around accessibility, including research, identity, and policy.
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Envision
Envision empowers people who are blind or have low vision to access everyday visual information for themselves. Because it isn’t just information. It’s knowledge, independence and possibility.
VLibras
As aplicações da Suíte VLibras permitem que pessoas surdas acessem conteúdo multimídia em sua língua natural de comunicação, o que contribui para com a acessibilidade de computadores, dispositivos móv...
Be My Eyes on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses
Hands free access to Be My Eyes through Meta AI Glasses.
Meta Smart Glasses
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with AI integration
Be My AI™
Be My AI™ brings state-of-the-art visual descriptions to people who are blind or have low vision. It’s powerful, practical, and designed to make accessibility simple.
The impact of facial recognition on people with disabilities
An In-Depth Audit of Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Impacting Individuals with Disabilities
Acessibilidade Digital Challenge
O Acessibilidade Digital Challenge visa capacitar as equipas técnicas dos municípios portugueses a obterem a Declaração de Acessibilidade para os seus sítios web
Review of Text to Speech solutions
Includes both cloud APIs and special purpose tools to make your text articles more accessible
WheelMap
Mark and find wheelchair accessible places — worldwide and for free. Wheelmap is the map for wheelchair accessible places
ACR Editor
This web editor helps evaluators build Accessibility Conformance Reports in the US OpenACR format
Disability Data Standard
We want to develop a standard approach to collecting data about disability from constituents and City employees to improve accessibility and inclusion in Boston.
KIKI, Virtual Human Interpreter
The world's first text-to-sign interpreter for emergency alerts
Apple Eye Tracking
Powered by artificial intelligence, Eye Tracking gives users a built-in option for navigating iPad and iPhone with just their eyes.
Lookout - Assisted vision
Lookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily.
Look to Speak
Look to Speak is an Android app from Google which enables you to use your eyes to select a menu of phrases and pictures and have them spoken aloud.
Project Gameface
Project Gameface helps gamers control their mouse cursor using their head movement and facial gestures.
Fable
Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities
a11ybuddy
A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.
Por un Entorno Digital Accesible (PUEDA)
La iniciativa tiene como principal objetivo difundir conceptos clave y buenas prácticas de la accesibilidad digital en el Estado, la sociedad civil, la academia y los sectores privado y técnico, actor...
Accessibility Lab (a11y Lab)
We are a company that seeks to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities through accessibility in the digital world.
Barrier-Free Communication Bratislava
The Barrier-Free Communication service allows citizens with specific needs to communicate with the city in a form that is comprehensible to them.
WhoCanUse
It's a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.
21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act
The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-fr...
Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
Dot Go
The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.
San Francisco Digital Accessibility and Inclusion Standard
This standard explains what you need to do to make your web content and services accessible. We need to design and build services and content that everyone can access and understand.
Electronic Arts Accessibility Patent Pledge
The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free
OpenSidewalks
Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.
AccessMap
A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers
Accessibility ABCs
A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community
Giving a damn about accessibility
A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber
Closing The Gap Conference
The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategie...
Access Lab
Access Lab é uma empresa que trabalha o acesso de pessoas com deficiência e S/surdas à cultura e ao entretenimento enquanto direito humano fundamental.
El acceso a los Servicios de la Información y las Personas con Discapacidad
El acceso a los servicios de la información y la comunicación y las personas con discapacidad - Un estudio exploratorio realizado en la región del Cono Sur
YAI Center for Innovation and Engagement
YAI’s Center for Innovation and Engagement understands how technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities better participate in their community.
Accessibility Insights
Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.
Accessibility Personas
The GDS Accessibility team has created 7 different accessibility personas. Each persona has different access needs.
Microsoft Adaptive Accessories
Adaptable buttons and mice for everyone
Empathy Prompts
This site loads one of a series of prompts to help the user empathize with people experiencing various conditions, from Multiple Sclerosis to near-sightedness.
Disability Inclusion Toolkit
This Ford Foundation toolkit includes introductory disability definitions and language guidelines, in addition to guidance on creating accessible in-person and virtual events, social media, and disabi...
Accessibility Guide
Tools and practices for making products and services accessible to everyone.
Disability Futures Fellows at Ford Foundation
Created by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W
City of NY Virtual Meeting Accessibility Guide
This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.
Snap Lenses teach users American Sign Language
Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language
Alt Text as Poetry
An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web
Starkey Livio AI
Using integrated sensors and artificial intelligence, Livio AI enhances your listening experiences, proactively manages your health and provides access to information to simplify your life.
Solar Ear
Solar Ear manufactures low cost, solar rechargeable and environment friendly hearing aids so you can hear perfectly again. Our products are manufactured by deaf workers with high quality components....
NuEar Hearing Aids
The hearing aid that tracks body and brain health.