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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, …
Given the physiological and cognitive degeneration associated with ageing, it is important to promote initiatives that prevent situations that may increase dementia …
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