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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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aCURE

aCURE.info is a deterministic search platform that can run hundreds of integrated, weighted-context queries simultaneously.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

Metadata Quality Assurance

Metadata Quality Assurance

European Union (EU)

The Metadata Quality Assurance is intended to help data providers and data portals to check their metadata against various indicators.

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.

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

VLibras

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

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 móveis e páginas Web.

Be My AI™

Be My AI™

Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark

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.

WheelMap

Mark and find wheelchair accessible places — worldwide and for free. Wheelmap is the map for wheelchair accessible places

ACR Editor

ACR Editor

United States of America 🇺🇸

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.

Apple Eye Tracking

Powered by artificial intelligence, Eye Tracking gives users a built-in option for navigating iPad and iPhone with just their eyes.

Project Gameface

Project Gameface

Mountain View, CA

Project Gameface helps gamers control their mouse cursor using their head movement and facial gestures.

Look to Speak

Look to Speak

Mountain View, CA

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.

Fable

Fable

Montreal, QC, Canada

Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities

a11ybuddy

a11ybuddy

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

Accessibility Lab (a11y Lab)

Accessibility Lab (a11y Lab)

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽

We are a company that seeks to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities through accessibility in the digital world.

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, actores críticos a la hora de alcanzar entornos digitales accesibles.

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-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”

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.

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.

AccessMap

AccessMap

Seattle

A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers

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 strategies.

Access Lab

Access Lab

Portugal 🇵🇹

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 Center for Innovation and Engagement

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

YAI’s Center for Innovation and Engagement understands how technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities better participate in their community.

Accessibility Personas

Accessibility Personas

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The GDS Accessibility team has created 7 different accessibility personas. Each persona has different access needs.

City of NY Virtual Meeting Accessibility Guide

City of NY Virtual Meeting Accessibility Guide

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

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 disability inclusive employment practices from recruitment to retention.

Disability Futures Fellows at Ford Foundation

Disability Futures Fellows at Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation Building, East 43rd Street, New York, NY

Created by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W

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.

Alt Text as Poetry

Alt Text as Poetry

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web

Solar Ear

Solar Ear

São Paulo

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. FIND YOUR HEARING AID

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