U.S. Web Design System — Institutionalising WCAG-Tested Components Across Federal Government
Since 2015, GSA's open-source USWDS has built WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility into government web components by default; its 2025 VPAT report tested …
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Since 2015, GSA's open-source USWDS has built WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility into government web components by default; its 2025 VPAT report tested …
Microsoft's free Seeing AI app narrates text, currency, people, barcodes and scenes in real time through a phone camera for blind and …
Spun off in 2019 from the American Printing House for the Blind, GoodMaps replaces beacons and GPS with camera-based computer vision for …
CAST's Universal Design for Learning framework asks designers to build multiple means of engagement, representation and expression into digital curricula from the …
Google Research trains speech-recognition models to understand atypical speech (ALS/MND, dysarthria, Down syndrome, stuttering) using samples donated by people with impaired speech, …
A nonprofit consortium's free, open-source software lets people store personal accessibility settings in the cloud and apply them with one click on …
Microsoft co-designed the Xbox Adaptive Controller with five disability nonprofits, giving gamers limited mobility a modular base with 19 ports. Launched 2018 …
US nonprofit runs 24/7 phone, text and chat crisis lines for LGBTQ+ youth; over 450,000 contacts in FY2024. In 2025 it lost …
Since 2010, The Last Mile has taught incarcerated Californians offline software engineering despite no prison internet. Now in 16 facilities across 7 …
Launched Feb 2019: free Android captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, shaped by Gallaudet user research (loudness indicator, minimal confidence cues). 70+ …
Cloud-based AAC app built by a father of a child with Rett syndrome with 30+ speech-language specialists, using core-vocabulary research from UNC's …
New Jersey's Disability Information Hub consolidates nearly 200 state programmes into one accessible portal designed with — not for — people with …
Microsoft's free Immersive Reader applies specific, peer-reviewed reading-science findings — on font spacing, syllable breaks, line length and text-to-speech — to help …
Since 2002, NNEDV's Safety Net Project has trained more than 100,000 advocates, police, prosecutors and service providers across the US and abroad …
Founded by a formerly homeless welder, ShelterTech has installed free WiFi in 24 San Francisco shelters, SROs and supportive-housing sites and built …
The US Veterans Health Administration's Digital Divide Consult (2020) standardises referrals for free loaned tablets and data. A 2024 cohort study found …
GSA's FY24 Section 508 assessment collected self-reported answers from 245 federal entities. Only about 23% of top public websites fully conformed, and …
OATS from AARP's Senior Planet ran twice-weekly Zoom digital-skills classes for low-income NYC public-housing seniors. An evaluation with a comparison group found …
Sorenson VRS (Salt Lake City, USA) lets Deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans call hearing users via live ASL interpreters, funded by the FCC's …
In 2025 the FTC fined accessibility-overlay vendor accessiBe $1M for falsely claiming its AI widget made websites WCAG-compliant, and for disguising paid …
UIUC-led, with five tech firms and advocacy groups, SAP collects consented speech from people with disabilities. Fine-tuning on 151 hours of Parkinson's …
Mozilla's CC0 crowdsourced speech corpus, launched in 2017, lets volunteers record and validate sentences so under-resourced languages can get speech technology; the …
Google's Project Gameface turns a webcam into a hands-free mouse via tracked facial gestures, letting people with limited hand mobility play PC …
Sony spent five years co-designing the Access controller with AbleGamers, Stack-Up and SpecialEffect and disabled gamers themselves, producing a modular, table- or …
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