📄️ 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
Educators, product developers, and institutions use Accessible EDU Consulting, a human-centered advisory practice founded by Jordyn Zimmerman, to build inclusive learning environments and services before launch.
📄️ AccessNow
Travellers check the AccessNow map to pick restaurants and hotels that other disabled users have flagged as accessible.
📄️ AgrAbility
When farmers, ranchers, or other agricultural workers encounter disabling injury, illness or chronic condition, the USDA-funded AgrAbility program intervenes within the U.S. agricultural extension system to provide assistive-technology referral, technical assistance and network support.
📄️ All Access Life
When people with disabilities confront rapidly changing assistive-tech ecosystems, the non-profit All Access Life uses its platform to surface adaptive-product trends and reduce the labour of tracking tools for end-users.
📄️ America's Warrior Partnership
When veterans, their families, and caregivers encounter fragmented local support and high suicide risk, the larger veteran-serving ecosystem uses AWP to coordinate communities and connect resources.
📄️ Angel City Sports
Athletes join Angel City meets to access adaptive equipment and coaching when mainstream leagues lack para-divisions.
📄️ Apple
Disabled people use Apple's built-in accessibility features -- VoiceOver, Personal Voice, Live Caption, Switch Control -- to navigate digital life, while also absorbing the labor of reporting bugs, adapting to regressions, and waiting for fixes that may take years.
📄️ Aspiritech
Adults on the autism spectrum work at Aspiritech to test digital products so development teams catch accessibility failures before launch.
📄️ AT4D
Disabled entrepreneurs across Africa join AT4D's accelerator to develop assistive technology ventures in a region where the WHO estimates only 1 in 10 people who need assistive products have access to them.
📄️ Use Be My Eyes
Blind and low-vision people launch Be My Eyes in order to recruit remote human and AI helpers whenever inaccessible design or missing visual information blocks daily life.
📄️ Beacon College
Students with learning disabilities and neurodivergent learners use Beacon College to gain a college-level education with built-in supports that compensate for systemic design failures in mainstream higher education.
📄️ Benetech / Bookshare
People with reading barriers, educators, and human-rights or social-justice practitioners use Benetech's tools and platforms to access educational materials, document rights abuses, and build community services when mainstream systems fail to provide accessible infrastructure.
📄️ BraunAbility
Wheelchair users buy or rent BraunAbility vans to travel independently when transit systems or rideshares lack ramped vehicles
📄️ Bri Scalesse
Bri Scalesse models for major brands while documenting the inaccessible production spaces those same brands put her in, using her platform to create public accountability that formal airline and industry complaint processes have not produced.
📄️ Capitol Crawl
Wheelchair users and other disabled activists abandoned their mobility devices and crawled up the steps of the U.S. Capitol on March 12, 1990, to force Congress to see what inaccessibility looks like -- turning their bodies into evidence that the Americans with Disabilities Act could no longer be delayed.
📄️ Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Disability justice organizers read and assign Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice to give disabled communities shared language for the mutual aid networks they build when Medicaid waiting lists and hostile agencies leave them without safe care.
📄️ Cephable
People with motor disabilities, ALS, cerebral palsy, and limited hand dexterity run Cephable on standard laptops to control computers and games through head movements, facial expressions, and voice commands when accessible input methods are absent from the software they need to use.
📄️ Circleg
Amputees, prosthetists, and community health workers use Circleg's modular "Circleg One" system and training programs to provide navigator-side assistive-technology access where formal prosthetic services are unavailable.
📄️ Deque / axe-core
Developers run axe-core in CI pipelines to catch and block detectable WCAG violations before code ships, using the free open-source engine that Deque Systems controls and that Google chose to power Chrome DevTools accessibility audits.
📄️ Disability Culture Lab
Editors and communications teams hire Disability Culture Lab to audit campaigns and commission disabled writers so that disability coverage centers disabled expertise instead of pity narratives.
📄️ Disability:IN
HR, accessibility, and ERG teams at large employers complete Disability:IN's Disability Index to earn a score their company can publish to signal disability inclusion commitment.
📄️ Diversability
Disabled people join Diversability's peer-led community and events to build community, celebrate disability pride and leadership, and create collective infrastructure when mainstream society isolates them.
📄️ Docs with Disabilities Initiative
Educators in medical schools use the Docs With Disabilities podcast to bring first‑person disability perspectives into curriculum planning and faculty development. Some institutions include it as a recommended resource in faculty training to support inclusion during curriculum design and planning .
📄️ Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)
Disabled people and parents of disabled children contact DREDF attorneys to assert their rights through federal litigation and policy advocacy when institutions deny access that the ADA, Section 504, and IDEA require.
📄️ EDUCAUSE
Higher education IT professionals use EDUCAUSE's frameworks, research, and community forums to set institutional digital accessibility requirements before technology ships to students, faculty, and staff.
📄️ Embla Medical
Amputee athletes buy Embla's running blades to compete when public sports programs don't supply adaptive gear.
📄️ Enable Ventures
Startup founders pitch Enable Ventures to secure capital that ties accessibility milestones and disability-inclusive hiring to investment tranches from day one, making resource provisioning part of the deal before the product is built.
📄️ European Commission
Accessibility advocates use European Commission directives and funding conditions to require EU projects to meet accessibility standards for built environments and digital services before they receive support.
📄️ Everway
School districts deploy Everway's Polaris IEP-management suite to document and operationalize accommodations upfront, rather than relying on legacy SIS platforms that omit special-education features.
📄️ Fable
Product teams hire disabled testers on Fable to run usability sessions before shipping new features.
📄️ GAAD Foundation
Digital product teams organize GAAD-related bug-bash events and other GAAD activities to identify and fix accessibility barriers before major releases; GAAD events and community/company activities are catalogued on the official GAAD site.[2]
📄️ Global Alliance of Assistive Technology Organizations (GAATO)
Disabled people, AT professionals, and advocates join GAATO’s global alliance to coordinate standards and share knowledge when fragmented systems block access to assistive technology.[1] [2]
📄️ Gallaudet University
Deaf students, faculty, and alumni use Gallaudet University, the world's only university that designs all programs and services for Deaf and hard of hearing students, to learn, teach, and research in American Sign Language without the compensations that hearing institutions impose, after spending 124 years fighting to lead the institution that hearing people built for them.
📄️ GBH (formerly WGBH)
Deaf viewers watch captioned television and blind viewers access audio-described broadcasts through GBH's Caption Center and Descriptive Video Service, systems GBH built and nationalized inside public broadcasting decades before Congress required any commercial broadcaster to follow.
📄️ Google
Disabled people use Google's accessibility features (Live Caption, TalkBack, Lookout, Project Relate) to navigate digital life on the platforms billions depend on, while absorbing the labor when the same company's reCAPTCHA blocks them, auto-captions fail them, and platform updates break the workflows they cannot opt out of.
📄️ Hopper
Amputee recreational runners purchase Hopper's carbon-fiber blade when public health insurance classifies sports prostheses as "non-essential" and excludes them from coverage.
📄️ Howe Innovation Center
Disability-tech founders work with the Howe Innovation Center to connect their products with disabled users for testing and feedback before launch -- shifting user research and QA testing upstream, while raising the question of who benefits from that connection.
📄️ HumanWare
Blind and DeafBlind users purchase HumanWare braille displays and notetakers when mainstream devices lack tactile output -- compensating for gaps in mass-market design.
📄️ International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
Election commissions use IFES toolkits and checklists to audit polling-place accessibility and plan tactile ballots before elections -- enabling blind voters to mark ballots independently and officials to find barriers before voting day.
📄️ inABLE
Blind and low-vision students in Kenya attend inABLE computer labs to learn screen-reader, braille-display, and coding skills that mainstream schools still fail to provide.
📄️ Infinite Access
Disabled viewers use Infinite Access's AI-powered platform to receive emergency broadcast content in sign language, enlarged captions, and multilingual audio when mainstream media fails to deliver accessible alerts.
📄️ Innovating Inclusion
Employers book Shani Dhanda's keynotes and consultancy workshops to rewrite hiring policies, vendor criteria, and workplace culture around disability inclusion before exclusion becomes entrenched.
📄️ Inventivio / Tactonom
Blind and visually impaired students place printed tactile graphics on the Tactonom Reader and touch the raised surface to hear real-time audio descriptions, accessing diagrams, maps, and math content that educational publishers produce only in visual formats.
📄️ Irisbond
People with motor disabilities mount Irisbond's Hiru eye-tracker on a tablet or laptop to type, speak, and control their devices with eye movement alone when keyboards, touchscreens, and speech are impossible.
📄️ Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Patrons with disabilities choose Kennedy Center performances with captioning, audio description, and relaxed-sensory formats curated by the center's Department of VSA and Accessibility -- and when those programs are disrupted or eliminated, they are forced to find alternatives elsewhere.
📄️ KITE Research Institute
Rehabilitation scientists use KITE's 15+ specialized labs -- StairLab, WinterLab, ClimateLab, DriverLab, and others -- to design, develop, and test mobility devices, assistive technologies, and built-environment standards for people living with the effects of disability, illness, and aging.
📄️ Koalaa
People with upper-limb differences order Koalaa's soft, fabric-based prosthetic arms online -- fitted in 15 minutes via a virtual clinic -- when clinical prosthetic services are too costly, too rigid, or unavailable for their body.
📄️ Lachi / RAMPD
Disabled musicians and concertgoers use RAMPD's accessibility rider and consulting work to press venues, festivals, and award shows into building accommodations before doors open, rather than scrambling to retrofit after disabled people arrive.
📄️ Lainey Feingold
Blind and visually impaired people and their advocacy organizations retain Lainey Feingold to negotiate accessibility agreements with banks, pharmacies, retailers, and technology companies through Structured Negotiation, a collaborative dispute resolution process that produces binding commitments without filing lawsuits.
📄️ Landscape Structures
City planners specify Landscape Structures' inclusive playground equipment -- ramped decks, sensory panels, the We-Go-Swing, and universally designed splash pads -- so new playgrounds launch inclusive from day one, welcoming children and families of all abilities to play together.
📄️ LinkedIn
LinkedIn engineers build and test products against WCAG 2.2 Level AA using internal accessibility tooling and third-party audits, iterate on Disability Answer Desk feedback, and triage accessibility bugs alongside functional ones.
📄️ Making Space
Disabled professionals enroll in Making Space's free accessible training courses and enter curated talent pipelines so that employers in entertainment, media, and tech hire them into production, design, and commentary roles that gatekeepers previously filled with non-disabled candidates.
📄️ Meta Platforms
When content creators don't provide alt text for their images, Meta's AI-powered Automatic Alt Text (AAT) generates machine descriptions so blind and low-vision Facebook and Instagram users can receive some form of image context through their screen readers -- a builder-side content measure that fills part of the gap left by billions of unlabeled photos.
📄️ Microsoft
Microsoft's Supplier Code of Conduct requires suppliers to "ensure accessibility" as a condition of doing business with the company, while internally Microsoft evaluates its own products against WCAG 2.2 Level AA and publishes Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) for all major products and services.
📄️ Minds of all Kinds
Neurodivergent professionals turn to Minds of All Kinds' workshops, ADHD Navigators program, and peer-support events when mainstream professional development spaces don't accommodate how their brains work.
📄️ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Wheelchair users, amputees, and disabled students join MIT research teams and use campus accessibility resources to advance inclusive technology and education when mainstream systems fall short.1
📄️ Mobility International USA
People with disabilities contact MIUSA's National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange to navigate study-abroad programs, volunteer placements, and international exchanges that were never designed with them in mind.
📄️ Move United
Athletes with disabilities join Move United's network of 249 member organizations to access adaptive sports -- from sit-skiing to wheelchair football -- because mainstream leagues never built programs that included them.
📄️ National Down Syndrome Society
Adults with Down syndrome use NDSS toolkits and advocacy resources to lobby lawmakers and raise awareness when mainstream services exclude them from essential supports.
📄️ NaviLens
Blind and low-vision travelers raise their phones to scan NaviLens codes when transit systems, stores, and public buildings still deliver critical wayfinding and labeling through visual signage.
📄️ NBCUniversal Media
Deaf, blind, and low-vision viewers rely on NBCUniversal's closed captioning and audio description to watch Olympic broadcasts, while absorbing the labor of navigating apps where controls vanish before screen readers can find them.
📄️ New Disabled South
Disabled Southerners cite New Disabled South's research and organize through its coalitions to campaign for disability justice issues such as policy coverage, civil rights, and employment equity when state legislatures fail to set requirements that protect them.
📄️ Nike
People who cannot bend, kneel, or use their hands buy Nike's FlyEase shoes to step into footwear without help -- but when Nike launched the GO FlyEase as a limited drop in 2021, resellers who hiked the price locked disabled buyers out of a shoe designed for them.
📄️ NV Access
Blind and low-vision people install NV Access's free, open-source NVDA screen reader to navigate Windows when commercial screen readers cost over a thousand dollars, and web developers adopt it as a testing tool to catch accessibility failures before launch.
📄️ Obi Feeding Robot
People with limited arm mobility use Obi's switch-controlled robotic spoon to eat independently when no caregiver is present, replacing one of the most intimate forms of human help with a device they control themselves.
📄️ Operation Rebound
Disabled veterans and first responders apply for Challenged Athletes Foundation grants to buy racing wheelchairs, prosthetic running legs, and handcycles when the VA and military healthcare systems do not provide the adaptive sports equipment they need to rebuild physical and mental health after service-related injuries.
📄️ OXO Good Grips
People with arthritis and limited grip strength use OXO Good Grips kitchen tools because a woman with arthritis co-designed handles that fit hands that hurt, then became the research subject in the product's conventional story.
📄️ Peter Farrelly
Film producers, directors, and casting teams cite Peter Farrelly's public push for disabled actors to challenge nondisabled casting habits before roles reach the screen.
📄️ PRC-Saltillo
Non-speaking people purchase PRC-Saltillo devices and apps to speak, write, and direct care when schools, workplaces, clinics, and public systems still assume natural speech.
📄️ Primark
Disabled shoppers, wheelchair users, and parents of sensory-sensitive kids buy Primark adaptive clothing and comfort-led kidswear when most high street fashion still treats inclusive design as specialist, expensive, or hard to find.
📄️ Procter & Gamble
Blind shoppers, low-vision shoppers, and people with limited dexterity use Procter & Gamble packaging with tactile markers, easier lids, and audio-readable codes in order to identify and open everyday goods with less guesswork and help from others.
📄️ Q'Straint
Wheelchair riders back into Q'Straint securement stations on buses in order to lock in place with less waiting for drivers to leave their seats.
📄️ QL Plus
Injured veterans and emergency responders submit functional challenges to Project S.E.R.V.E. when commercial prosthetics and VA programs produce devices for broad markets rather than for specific individual needs, and university engineering teams design and build one-of-a-kind adaptive devices as senior capstone projects.
📄️ Rangam Consultants
Autistic and neurodivergent job seekers register with Rangam's SourceAbled so a vendor team can route them through hiring pipelines that still need human-help to translate their qualifications into a format employers will read.
📄️ Rifton Equipment
Children with cerebral palsy and other motor disabilities use Rifton Activity Chairs, Pacer gait trainers, and TRAM lifts to sit, stand, walk, and transfer in classrooms, therapy rooms, and homes that were not built for their bodies.
📄️ Rodrigo Mendes Institute
Brazilian teachers download DIVERSA lesson materials from the Rodrigo Mendes Institute so they can plan inclusive classes before the school day starts.
📄️ Salesforce
Salesforce admins and developers use Lightning components, design-system markup, and accessibility status reports to build CRM workflows that disabled workers can use when sales and service work runs through Salesforce.
📄️ Signup Media
Deaf viewers install SignUp's Chrome extension so they can watch Disney+ or Netflix in ASL, BSL, or ISL when captions alone do not carry the whole performance.
📄️ So Every BODY Can Move
Amputees, orthotists, and prosthetists lobby statehouses through the So Every BODY Can Move campaign so insurers must cover running blades, swim legs, and sport orthoses as medically necessary care.
📄️ Sony
Disabled players use Sony's Access Controller kit and PlayStation Store Accessibility Tags so PS5 titles remain playable when the standard DualSense does not fit their grip, reach, or input pattern.
📄️ Sorenson Communications
Deaf callers place free ASL video relay calls through Sorenson when businesses have no direct sign-language line.
📄️ Spaulding Rehabilitation
Patients with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and amputation enter Spaulding Rehabilitation's inpatient and outpatient programs to rebuild function when acute hospitals discharge them into a world whose physical and social infrastructure was not built around their changed bodies.
📄️ Special Olympics
Athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities train and compete through Special Olympics when school leagues, recreation departments, and mainstream sports bodies leave them out.
📄️ Specialisterne Global
Autistic and neurodivergent job seekers move through Specialisterne's assessment process and employer partnerships to reach jobs when conventional hiring screens them out before employers see their work.
📄️ Spectrum
Blind, low-vision, Deaf, and hard-of-hearing Spectrum customers use narrated guides, big-button remotes, the Spectrum Access app, and the Disability Support Team to get cable and internet service working when standard telecom interfaces and support would otherwise shut them out.
📄️ SPINALpedia
New spinal cord injury survivors and long-term wheelchair users browse SPINALpedia's archive and mentor network to learn equipment options, travel tactics, and daily living techniques after rehab ends.
📄️ Squirmy and Grubs
Disabled people and their partners watch Shane Burcaw and Hannah Burcaw's videos to find models for caregiving, intimacy, and public explanation when cultural scripts treat disability as incompatible with romance.
📄️ SteadyMouse v1
People with hand tremors install SteadyMouse v1 on Windows to damp out pointer jitter and suppress accidental clicks, filling a gap that Microsoft has never closed at the operating-system level.
📄️ Sunrise Entertainment
Blind shoppers, brands, and publishers use Sunrise Entertainment's Lucy Edwards-led consulting, content, and product launches to make packaging, campaigns, and books legible before production starts.
📄️ Tobii Dynavox
Non-speaking people with ALS, cerebral palsy, and autism mount Tobii Dynavox eye-gaze devices to their wheelchairs to generate speech when their own bodies cannot produce it.
📄️ Trexo Robotics
Parents lease Trexo exoskeletons so children with cerebral palsy can practise gait at home when PT hours end.
📄️ UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Disabled people and their organizations use the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to hold state parties accountable for accessibility, education, employment, and independent living, after spending five years in the drafting rooms ensuring the treaty was written with them.
📄️ United Spinal Association Accessibility Services
Architects, transit agencies, and venue operators bring United Spinal Association's Accessibility Services team into plan review so wheelchair users can enter stadiums, museums, airports, and housing before complaints force retrofits.
📄️ University of Illinois Speech Accessibility Project
People with ALS, Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and stroke contribute paid voice recordings to the University of Illinois Speech Accessibility Project so that AI companies building voice interfaces can train systems that recognize their speech.
📄️ Wyatte Hall, University of Rochester Medical Center
Hearing parents of deaf newborns use Wyatte Hall's research at the University of Rochester Medical Center to challenge speech-only medical advice and advocate for early ASL exposure during the critical language development window before age three.
📄️ U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee
Paralympic athletes use USOPC training sites, funding, and team programs when hometown gyms and community clubs lack adaptive coaching, accessible equipment, or stable para-sport pipelines.
📄️ Verizon Communications
Product teams bring their apps and devices to Verizon's Accessibility Technology and Innovation Lab so Fred Moltz's testing staff can identify and fix accessibility failures before products reach retail stores and customers' hands.
📄️ Vispero
Blind and low-vision people run JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion to read screens, magnify text, and operate applications that sighted users navigate by sight alone, paying for access to a digital environment that builders constructed without them.
📄️ Walmart
Blind shoppers, disabled workers, and caregivers use Walmart's Accessibility Center of Excellence, Aira, sensory-friendly hours, and Caroline's Carts when the retailer's scale makes it impossible to improvise access store by store.
📄️ Warrior Games
Wounded, ill, and injured service members enter the Warrior Games adaptive-sports pipeline when combat or service-connected injuries shut them out of standard military sport and fitness culture.
📄️ We Hear You
Wheelchair users and people with limited hand strength trigger We Hear You's Hero and Push devices to open doors that architects and building owners left manual.
📄️ WeWalk
Blind travellers pair the WeWALK cane with GPS to detect obstacles when city infrastructure isn't tactile.
📄️ Wheel the World
Wheelchair users and other disabled travelers book hotels and tours through Wheel the World when mainstream travel platforms omit or misrepresent the accessibility details they need to make a trip possible.
📄️ Whispp
People who stutter route phone audio through Whispp to convert whispered speech into fluent-sounding voice in real time.
📄️ World Bank
Borrowing country governments align infrastructure, education, and social protection projects with the World Bank's Disability Inclusion and Accountability Framework before loans close, incorporating accessibility requirements that national regulations would not otherwise mandate.
📄️ World Institute on Disability
Disabled advocates and organizations use WID research, policy tools, and technical assistance to assert rights, press governments and institutions for inclusive design, and build the disability-led infrastructure that the mainstream policy world did not construct.