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              • An Asian woman using a powered wheelchair exits an accessible elevator along a ramp. Beside her, a smartphone screen displays a map with accessibility features. The image celebrates urban design and technology that support mobility and equal access.

                Comprehensive city navigation app for users with physical and visual impairments

                Accessible Map Ecosystem is a city navigation app for wheelchair users and people with visual impairments. It offers accessible route planning, real-time guidance, crowdsourced and institutional accessibility data, photos and haptic/audio feedback. By mid-2025 it had about 95,000 users and 310,000 data points.
                Soochow Realinder Technologies Co,.Ltd, Accessible Map Ecosystem, China

              • An app reviewing the accessibility of locations by user’s “yes” and “no”

                Access Earth discovered that a simple yes or no answer provides much more clarity than an elaborate three-star rating. One of the main focuses of the website and the app is to create an element of ease in the rating process. This allows users to make a quick, yet valuable, rating of a venue with the option to add any comments.
                Access Earth, Ireland

              • A screenshot of the map indicating accessbility features of the buildings.

                The playful way to create accessibility maps

                The free app features a gamification element called "AXS Mapathons," whereby teams compete against each other in real time while rating venues in their community on their accessibility. Google supports AXS Map through their annual volunteer programme, Google Serve. By mid of 2017, ASX Map had 100,000 users in 200 cities.
                AXS Map, United States of America

              • A person holds a prosthetic hand, connecting it to a high-tech black prosthetic arm. The image highlights human collaboration and innovation, symbolizing how assistive technology restores independence and dignity for people with limb differences.

                Locally produced, certified prosthetics and rehab solutions for underserved communities

                Prosthetics without borders (Cure Bionics) makes CE-certified bionic hands and 3D-printed adjustable sockets locally in decentralized hubs. They train clinicians, use the MyoLink rehab app, and have fitted 50+ users, trained 150+ professionals and delivered 300+ sessions.
                Cure Bionics, Cure Bionics, Tunisia

              • This graphic, featuring Arabic text and visuals, outlines the benefits of a certification called "Mowaamah" for training institutions. The graphic, from the Association for People with Disabilities, emphasizes inclusive licensing and accreditation, promoting accessibility for people with disabilities. The design includes green elements and icons that symbolize growth and support, representing a mission for justice and equal opportunities in professional training environments.

                A government-backed audit, certification, and support system for employers who create inclusive workplaces

                Saudi Arabia's Mowaamah certifies inclusive companies. From 2014-2023, 3,000 workplaces improved accessibility standards, supported by 32,000 app subscribers.
                Authority of People with Disabilities, Mowaamah, Saudi Arabia

              • A man sits on a chair next to a boy who is standing. Both are looking at the screen of a tablet in front of them. The boy is touching the screen.

                Teaching sign language with videos, Artificial Intelligence, and gamification

                SignLab uses video, Artificial Intelligence, and gamification to teach sign languages more effectively and affordably. The online and offline platform has quadrupled the number of people learning Norwegian sign language since 2018, and it will introduce Chinese, Indonesian, and Indian sign languages by 2022.
                SignLab AS, SignLab - Toleio, Norway

              • Participatory collection of disability data in cities to improve public service

                Kota Kita, an NGO from Solo City, Indonesia, generates a disability-inclusive profile of cities by collecting differentiated data in real time using a geo-tagging app. By involving people with disabilities, the results provide a basis for cities to take action to make them more disability-friendly.
                Kota Kita, Participatory Approach for Disability-Inclusive Cities Indonesia/Disability-Inclusive Cities Indonesia, Indonesia

              • A girl uses the Livox platform on a tablet, which is hold by a woman.

                Alternative communication platform for people with learning difficulties

                The Livox app enables users with speaking or learning difficulties to communicate using virtual cards with pictures or illustrated short phrases. The app can be operated noth by blinking and by speech. The app is self-learning and also features a content creator to add communication cards with videos, pictures and music.
                Livox, Livox, Brazil

              • A man dressed warmly waits for a bus on a cold city morning, holding his phone and backpack. The photo highlights the importance of accessible and reliable public transportation, essential for inclusion and equal mobility in urban environments.

                Sound-based system for orientation of persons with visual disabilities

                Kroki na Guki is a sound-based navigation system for blind and visually impaired people. Informer devices connect via Bluetooth to the BuzzPoint app to provide real-time transport info, route guidance, entrance location, green-light requests and electronic queue booking. 33,000+ Informers installed.
                The Center of a Successful Person, Steps on Sounds (Kroki na Guki), Belarus

              • People sit in the audience or behind a desk in a circle, developing an app during a public workshop.

                Improving research and training on urban accessibility and Universal Design

                The project involves publishing research on Universal Design, improving the curricula and training of planners and surveyors undertaking university study, plus assessing cities on accessibility criteria. As of 2019, two studies and one paper have been published, and four university courses have been modified.
                University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Teaching Universal Design, Serbia