Manifestations | ENABLE Model

📄️ 2gether-International

Disabled founders join 2Gether-International's accelerator to secure mentorship and investor interest that bakes accessibility into new startups.

📄️ Access Trax

Wheelchair users lay down Access Trax fold-up mats so they can cross sand or grass when public paths have no ramps.

📄️ Accessible EDU Consulting

Campus teams hire Accessible EDU to audit and fix course sites before the semester, preventing inaccessible syllabi from reaching students.

📄️ AccessNow

Travellers check the AccessNow map to pick restaurants and hotels that other disabled users have flagged as accessible.

📄️ AgrAbility

Farmers with disabilities contact AgrAbility to retrofit tractors and tools after conventional equipment locks them out.

📄️ All Access Life

Viewers watch All Access Life product videos to decide which adaptive gadgets can replace inaccessible mainstream tech.

📄️ America's Warrior Partnership

Disabled veterans use AWP's local coordinators to navigate benefit systems that online portals make inaccessible.

📄️ Angel City Sports

Athletes join Angel City meets to access adaptive equipment and coaching when mainstream leagues lack para-divisions.

📄️ Apple

- Users enable VoiceOver, Display Zoom, or Switch Control in iOS/macOS to work around apps that ignore accessibility guidelines.

📄️ Aspiritech

- Software companies contract Aspiritech's autistic QA teams to find a11y bugs before shipping.

📄️ AT4D

Policymakers and NGO staff cite AT4D research when drafting national assistive-technology strategies before funds are released.

📄️ Use Be My Eyes

Blind and low-vision users open the app to get a human volunteer or AI description when a screen, label, or CAPTCHA is unreadable.

📄️ Beacon College

Faculty download Beacon guidelines and adjust course materials before term start so students with learning differences aren't excluded.

📄️ Benetech / Bookshare

Readers with print disabilities log in to Bookshare to obtain DAISY, Braille, or MP3 editions when the standard print book is unusable.

📄️ BraunAbility

Wheelchair users buy or rent BraunAbility vans to travel independently when transit systems or rideshares lack ramped vehicles

📄️ Bri Scalesse

Fashion students and brands follow Bri Scalesse's campaigns to design runway shows and ad shoots that include wheelchair models from the start.

📄️ Cephable

Game and app developers integrate Cephable's SDK so future users can control interfaces with head movements or voice instead of a mouse.

📄️ Circleg

Amputees in low-resource regions assemble Circleg's low-cost prosthetic kits when hospital-grade limbs are unaffordable or unavailable.

📄️ Deque / axe-core

QA engineers run the open-source axe-core library in CI pipelines to automatically block builds that introduce new WCAG violations.

📄️ Disability Culture Lab

- Editors commission essays from DCL to replace deficit-focused stories before publishing disability coverage.

📄️ Diversability

Disabled professionals join Diversability's online community and events to trade advice and peer-mentor around barriers in mainstream networking spaces.

📄️ Docs with Disabilities Initiative

Medical schools assign the Docs With Disabilities podcast to faculty so curricula are updated with first-person disability perspectives before new courses launch.

📄️ Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)

- People contact DREDF attorneys to file ADA and Section 504 lawsuits after digital or physical access is denied.

📄️ Educause

Higher education institutions and IT professionals leverage Educause's resources and community to advance technology, including accessibility, within academic environments.

📄️ Embla Medical

Amputee athletes buy Embla's running blades to compete when public sports programs don't supply adaptive gear.

📄️ Enable Ventures

A disability-focused venture fund that bakes accessibility and inclusive hiring into term sheets.

📄️ European Commission

Accessibility advocates cite policies led by Inmaculada Placencia Porrero to make EU projects adopt built-environment and ICT accessibility standards before funding.

📄️ Everway

School districts deploy Everway's IEP-management suite when legacy SIS platforms exclude disabled students' accommodations.

📄️ Fable

Product teams hire disabled testers on Fable to run usability sessions before shipping new features.

📄️ GAAD Foundation

Teams schedule GAAD “bug-bash” days each May to remove accessibility blockers before the next release.

📄️ Global Alliance of Assistive Technology Organizations (GAATO)

National ministries reference GAATO briefs to set assistive-tech procurement rules before tenders open.

📄️ Gallaudet University

Ed-tech developers license Gallaudet's bilingual ASL-English story apps so children get accessible literacy material at release.

📄️ Google

Internal and third-party teams follow Google's “Products for All” guidance to embed accessible APIs during design, not after launch.

📄️ Hopper

Recreational runners purchase Hopper's low-cost carbon-fiber blade when public health insurance won't cover mainstream sports prostheses.

📄️ Howe Innovation Center

Disability-tech founders attend Howe hackathons to refine product-market fit with disabled users before raising capital.

📄️ Humanware

Blind users buy HumanWare braille displays and GPS devices when mass-market phones lack tactile feedback.

📄️ International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)

Election commissions use IFES toolkits to add tactile ballots and accessible polling sites before voting day.

📄️ inABLE

Kenyan schools host inABLE computer labs so blind learners gain digital skills alongside sighted peers instead of waiting for post-hoc fixes.

📄️ Infinite Access

Companies contract Infinite Access to audit design systems and coach dev teams before inaccessible components reach production.

📄️ Innovating Inclusion

Employers book Shani Dhanda workshops to rewrite hiring policies and vendor criteria around disability inclusion.

📄️ Inventivio / Tactonom

Blind students use Inventivio's Tactonom Reader to explore tactile graphics when textbooks lack embossed diagrams.

📄️ Irisbond

People with motor disabilities mount Irisbond's Hiru eye-tracker to type and speak when keyboards and speech are impossible.

📄️ Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Patrons choose Kennedy Center performances with captioning, audio description, and relaxed-sensory formats curated by the Kennedy Center's Office of Accessibility.

📄️ KITE Research Institute

Rehab engineers use KITE's gait-lab data to design safer mobility devices ahead of clinical trials.

📄️ Koalaa

Amputees order Koalaa's soft “sock-style” arms online when clinical prosthetic services are too costly or unavailable.

📄️ Lachi / RAMPD

Concert bookers download RAMPD's accessibility rider so venues add ramps, captions, and ASL before the show.

📄️ Lainey Feingold

Disabled customers hire Lainey Feingold to negotiate “Structured Negotiation” agreements after digital services fail WCAG.

📄️ Landscape Structures

City planners specify Landscape Structures' ramped decks and sensory panels so new playgrounds launch inclusive from day one.

📄️ Making Space

Studios use Making Space guidelines to hire and accommodate disabled talent in pre-production, not as an afterthought.

When content creators don't provide alt text for their images, Meta's AI adds auto-generated alt-text so that blind Facebook and Instagram users can use screen-reader software to receive some sort of text descriptions at post time.

📄️ Microsoft

Enterprise buyers embed Microsoft's supplier clause that requires all deliverables to conform to WCAG AA before contracts are signed.

📄️ Minds of all Kinds

Neurodivergent adults attend MoAK's sensory-friendly events when typical nightlife overwhelms them.

📄️ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Prosthetic startups adapt Hugh Herr's BiOM powered-ankle research to design next-gen limbs ahead of FDA submission.

📄️ Mobility International USA

Study-abroad coordinators use MIUSA checklists to add accessibility clauses to partner-school agreements.

📄️ Move United

Athletes join Move United chapters to access sit-skiing, archery, and grants when local leagues lack inclusive gear.

📄️ National Down Syndrome Society

Self-advocates use NDSS toolkits and Kayla McKeon's briefings to lobby lawmakers after services exclude people with Down syndrome.

📄️ Navilens

Blind transit riders scan NaviLens codes to hear platform info when signage is unreadable.

📄️ NBCUniversal Media

Producers add captions and extended audio description to every Olympic livestream before broadcast, following NBCU's 2024 accessibility plan.

📄️ New Disabled South

Southerners with disabilities cite NDS research to campaign for Medicaid expansion and voting-access bills.

📄️ Nike

Designers study Nike's hands-free FlyEase mechanisms to build shoes that users can step into when tying laces is a barrier.

📄️ NV Access

Windows users install the free, open-source NVDA screen reader to navigate apps that ship without semantic HTML.

📄️ Obi Feeding Robot

People with limited arm mobility use Obi's switch-controlled spoon to eat independently when no caregiver is present.

📄️ Operation Rebound

Southerners with disabilities cite NDS research to campaign for Medicaid expansion and voting-access bills.

📄️ OXO Good Grips

Kitchenware engineers adopt OXO's universal-design handles so new utensils ship grip-friendly for arthritic users.

📄️ Peter Farrelly

Film crews cite Farrelly's push for authentic disability casting to hire disabled actors before scenes are shot.

📄️ PRC-Saltillo

Non-speaking users purchase PRC-Saltillo speech-generating devices to talk when oral speech is impossible.

📄️ Primark

Clothing teams follow Primark's adaptive fasteners guide so new garments launch dress-friendly for disabled shoppers.

📄️ Procter & Gamble

Brand managers add tactile markers and “Easy-Open” lids championed by Procter & Gamble's Sam Latif before items hit shelves.

📄️ Q' Straint

Wheelchair riders use buses fitted with Q' Straint QUANTUM to self-secure when transit lacks staff help.

📄️ QL Plus

Engineering students prototype custom prosthetics for injured veterans through QL Plus capstone projects.

📄️ Rangam Consultants

Autistic job-seekers register with Rangam to land roles in firms that overlook them in mainstream hiring.

📄️ Rifton Equipment

Therapists order Rifton adaptive chairs and gait trainers when school furniture isn't accessible.

📄️ Rodrigo Mendes Institute

Brazilian teachers download the Institute's DIVERSA resources to design inclusive lessons before class.

📄️ Salesforce

Dev teams follow Catherine Nichols' internal a11y checklist so every new cloud feature meets WCAG before release.

📄️ Signup Media

Deaf viewers install the SignUp Chrome extension to see ASL interpretation on Netflix when captions aren't enough.

📄️ So Every BODY Can Move

Amputees lobby statehouses with this campaign to require insurance coverage for sports prosthetics.

📄️ Sony

Gamers test Sony's Access Controller kit so PS5 titles ship with button layouts usable by players with limited dexterity.

📄️ Sorenson Communications

Deaf callers place free ASL video relay calls through Sorenson when businesses have no direct sign-language line.

📄️ Spaulding Rehabilitation

Patients join Spaulding's adaptive rowing and cycling clinics during rehab when local gyms lack inclusive programs.

📄️ Special Olympics

Athletes with intellectual disabilities train and compete in Special Olympics when scholastic leagues exclude them.

📄️ Specialisterne Global

Corporations partner with Specialisterne to redesign hiring tests and onboard autistic talent before job offers go out.

📄️ Spectrum

Customers with disabilities call Spectrum's specialist team or enroll in low-cost “Internet Assist” plans after standard support falls short.

📄️ Spinalpedia

New spinal-cord-injury survivors browse SPINALpedia videos to learn hacks for driving, cooking, or transferring when OT sessions end.

📄️ Squirmy and Grubs

Viewers share Hannah Aylward & Shane Burcaw's videos to pressure publishers and producers to cast real disabled talent before projects start.

📄️ Sunrise Entertainment

Brands hire blind creator Lucy Edwards to audit ad scripts so disability representation is baked in at concept stage.

📄️ Tobii Dynavox

Non-speaking users buy TD I-110 or eye-gaze devices to communicate when mainstream tech lacks AAC.

📄️ Trexo Robotics

Parents lease Trexo exoskeletons so children with CP can practise gait at home when PT hours end.

📄️ United Spinal Association Accessibility Services

Architects hire Dominic Marinelli's team to review blueprints so buildings open ADA-compliant.

📄️ University of Illinois

Companies donate compute to Mark Hasegawa-Johnson's dataset so future voice AIs recognise diverse speech.

📄️ University of Rochester

Pediatric clinics cite Wyatte Hall's research to add ASL exposure guidelines before deaf infants start school.

📄️ U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee

Athletes train under USOPC Para programs when hometown gyms lack elite adaptive coaching.

📄️ Verizon Communications

Product squads demo apps in Fred Moltz's lab to fix a11y bugs before apps hit Verizon's stores.

📄️ Vispero

Blind users install JAWS or ZoomText to navigate sites that ignore semantic HTML.

📄️ Walmart

Merch teams follow Victor Calise's policy that every new digital feature must pass internal WCAG audits pre-launch.

📄️ Warrior Games

Wounded service-members compete in Warrior Games when conventional leagues exclude them post-injury.

📄️ We Hear You

Wheelchair users stick the HERO opener on doors and trigger them via the Push app when buildings lack power doors.

📄️ WeWalk

Blind travellers pair the WeWALK cane with GPS to detect obstacles when city infrastructure isn't tactile.