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  Technology centres offering accessible training in digital skills and career support

  The programme offers free and accessible online and in-person training in life, technical, and digital skills, partnering locally with potential employers and mentors. POETA DigiSpark has trained more than 4,000 people since starting in 2013, and has registered 200,000 visits to its seven technology centres.
  Trust for the Americas, POETA DigiSpark, Argentina

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  Giving a voice to children with disabilities

  The project seeks to develop a simple and effective method for children with disabilities to express or communicate their life priorities and human rights issues. Therefore project team developed a set of inclusive tools to overcome barriers in verbal or oral communication and made these available on the project website.
  Deakin University, Australia

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  Rating the accessibility of buildings using a well-known seal system

  BPASS carries out accessibility assessments of objects and public spaces based on a 300-question checklist for 11 different beneficiary groups. The actual state of the building or public space is visualised with a colour scheme and a rating. In addition to German, BPASS is also available other languages.
  EUKOBA - European Competence Centre for Accessibility, BPASS, Germany

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  Accessible phone calls for the Deaf for private and professional needs

  Pedius is a communication system that enables hearing impaired people to make telephone calls independently and at any time. Pedius Work Inclusion offers special features, such as subtitled conference calls. Founded in 2013, Pedius now has over 35,000 users in 13 countries and supports seven languages.
  Pedius, Pedius Work Inclusion, Italy

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  Low-cost technology for young people with vision impairment

  This project offers various free services to the blind, including Inclusive Education, a higher education programme, and vocational and career training. It also develops low-tech teaching devices, such as drawing kits, flash cards, and apps that can be downloaded. In 2014, 262 children and juveniles participated in project activities.
  Nhat Hong Center for The Blind and Visually Impaired, Vietnam

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  The ways4all project facilitates the use of public transport for persons with special needs, especially blind people. The result is an accessible application for mobile devices that combines indoor and outdoor navigation, traffic information, communication with public transport services, and intuitive operation.

  ways4all is a mobile user interface combining outdoor navigation via GPS with indoor navigation via passive RFID tags and a tool for direct communication with a public transport system which enables a person with a visual impairment to register his or her point of departure to inform the driver accordingly.
  Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Accessible travel on public transport in austria, Austria

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  Smartphone app connecting visually impaired users in need with supportive volunteers

  Be My Eyes, a Danish start-up company with headquarters in San Francisco, California, introduced a free app that connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers. The app consists of a two-way audio and one-way video feed that allows the sighted volunteer to be the eyes of the blind user.
  Be My Eyes, Be My Eyes, Denmark

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  ICT solution for people with reduced mobility to use public transport

  "App&Town Compagnon" is an app that allows people with reduced mobility to use public transport autonomously. The app was developed by Mass Factory Urban Accessible Mobility from Barcelona, Spain, and includes route planning, personalized guidance and assistance.
  Mass Factory Urban Accessible Mobility, S.L., App&Town Compagnon, Spain

• A Sign Language App, Dictionary and Learning Tool

  The FingerTalk app for the first time digitized South African sign language dictionary and made it available for free. The app is designed as a self-learning tool and enables users to share SASL signs via social media and the messenger service WhatsApp. Until mid-2018, more than 4,000 users have downloaded the app.
  Wigital, FingerTalk, South Africa

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  A website offering instant captioning and translation

  Streamer is a subscription-based website that captions speech to text in real-time and also offers an option to translate simultaneously into 117 languages. Streamer is suitable for use with speeches, conversations, classroom lectures, seminars, and webinars. Users can set up a private and secure Streamer website
  SpeechGear, Streamer, United States of America