Topic: Assistive technology clear · back to the knowledge map
Most practices in: United States of America (5) · United Kingdom (3) · Kenya (3)
Be My Eyes, founded in Copenhagen in 2015, connects blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers and, since 2023, AI image description …
The main aim of Online Today! was around encouraging and supporting people with sensory loss to understand and better use technology and …
OLE Nepal's 'intelligent OCR' (iOCR) converts scanned Nepali/English documents into screen-reader-compatible e-books, filling a gap in Nepali-script OCR. Built with KDDI Foundation …
Maceió-based Hand Talk's AI avatar Hugo translates Portuguese into Brazilian Sign Language and has been downloaded over 2 million times, citing 3 …
An EU Horizon 2020 project at Cyprus University of Technology built a generative-AI app that signs classroom lectures via a personal avatar, …
Grammatek's neural Icelandic text-to-speech technology now narrates textbooks for Hljóðbókasafn Íslands, the national library serving dyslexic and print-disabled students, after a 2022 …
A free web tool built by Cambodia's CADT/IDRI with the National Institute for Special Education and Krousa Thmey Foundation machine-translates Khmer text …
Verbit's AI captioning, used at the University of Arizona and elsewhere, supports US universities' ADA compliance. A national study of 2,000 students …
Lexplore, a Karolinska Institutet spin-off, uses AI eye-tracking to flag dyslexia risk in ~5 minutes, screening ~8,000 children since 2016. A 2026 …
A Czech-funded resource centre at Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Orhei uses AI-powered scanning pens, tablets and interactive boards to support …
Since 1999, Bengaluru NGO Enable India has trained blind, visually impaired and other people with disabilities in assistive technology and digital skills, …
Web accessibility is of major importance for the integration and equal opportunity of access to information, training and communication with people with …
This is an experimental educational robotics project dedicated to children with specific learning disorders (DSA). It involves at least three classes of …
Kenyan NGO inABLE and Google piloted AI live captioning at Kambui Primary School for the Deaf, logging 700+ hours across 108 pupils, …
The Able to Include project sought to improve the living conditions of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD). There are many …
A Nairobi startup's 3D-printed, recycled-plastic humanoid robots translate speech to sign language in real time for deaf students in low-connectivity Kenyan schools. …
Colorado's CDLE and OIT piloted Aira ASL, a free app linking deaf and hard-of-hearing residents to a live interpreter on demand, at …
The european project AMEDY (Active Media Education for Disabled Youth) deals with the challenges of the digital world for young people with …
The main purpose of the project was to develop an innovative learning approach - digital storytelling, adapted to people with intellectual disabilities. …
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