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              • Enabling people with disabilities to vote from home and without assistance

                In partnership with Amazon and Microsoft, Democracy Live developed OmniBallot, an accessible online voting system available via computer, tablet, or smartphone, thus enabling people with disabilities to vote independent of support. Since its launch in 2015, over one million voters have used the system.
                Democracylive, OmniBallot, United States of America

              • Five Fable team members smile and laugh with their arms on each other’s shoulders.

                An accessibility testing platform, powered by people with disabilities

                The online platform helps companies test whether their digital services are accessible to people with disabilities. It offers community testing and community-centred feedback. Since its launch in 2018, Fable has provided employment for 100 people with disabilities. Customers include Walmart, Shopify, and Slack.
                Fable Tech Labs, Fable, Canada

              • FACIL'iti provides hundreds of adaptations for a custom-made browsing experience answering each user specific needs. The digital tools adapt to the user and no longer the opposite.

                Free browser-extension to adapt websites with a variety of accessibility features

                FACIL’iti, a start-up company from France, launched its website adaptation tool for companies in 2018. The tool, which is free for end users, is easy to install and for a variety of customizations such as larger characters as well as enlarged click zones or reading aids. In 2021 the service had more than 800,000 users globally.
                FACIL'iti, FACIL’ITI WEBSITE ADAPTION TOOLS, France

              • Five-Year Plan for Mental Health Care in Rural Areas

                BasicNeeds Ghana capacitates physicians and health workers about mental health issues, how to treat them, and how to gain knowledge about appropriate medication. Since its founding in 2002, the programme has benefitted more than 19,000 poor and marginalized living people with mental health issues or epilepsy.
                Basic Needs Ghana, Ghana

              • Apprenticeship trainings for learners with intellectual disabilities aiming at countrywide certification

                HandicapNL in the Netherlands launched 'From Learning to Earning' in 2023, with 400 apprenticeships for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Most participants work in retail or hospitality.
                HandicapNL, From Learning to Earning, Netherlands

              • Two women are in a kitchen in a pizzeria. One woman holds a spoon and is spooning ingredients from a bowl onto a pizza base while the other woman observes her.

                National state-run training and job-placement programme for people with disabilities

                The Format for Work, Disability Line programme offers people with disabilities theoretical and practical vocational training and then placement in dependent employment. The programme was launched in 2014. Between 2015 and by 2020 there were a total of 9,929 users, of whom 7,995 completed their training.
                SCENE Chile - National Training and Employment Service, Training for Work, Chile

              • Three individuals, appearing to be family members or close friends, sit together, each holding a small device that seems to light up based on interactions. Their expressions are warm and engaged, symbolizing technology's role in fostering social and emotional connections in an inclusive environment.

                A social robot ‘buddy’ for those with psychosocial disabilities

                Happybots in the Netherlands developed Felix, an AI 'buddy' for psychosocial disabilities. By 2024, Felix supported 270 users across 55 organizations to improve mental well-being.
                Happybots B.V., Happybots Felix, Netherlands

              • Full-time, unlimited jobs in facility management

                Chance B is an NGO and social service provider operating in rural areas of Styria, one of the nine Austrian states. Among its services, the organization offers employment and housing support. Through its Hausmasters programme, it provides full-time employment for approximately 60 people with disabilities.
                Chance B Holding GmbH, Hausmasters Dienstleistungs GmbH/, Austria

              • Providing a variety of career services for high school students with disabilities

                Georgia's HSHT programme offers high school students (aged 16 to 21) with disabilities comprehensive, community-based exposure to academic and career services such as Mentoring , industry tours , work internships , college fairs , family engagement. In 2015, students had a graduation rate of 88 per cent.
                Georgia Committee for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities, Inc., Georgia’s High School/High Tech (HSHT) programme, United States of America

              • A boy plays with his peers in uniforms outside.

                A broad, low-cost, and comprehensive model to create accessible schools

                The aim of HOPE is to ensure and to increase the school enrollment of children with and without disabilities in rural areas. This is mainly done through improving school accessibility and by establishing community-based rehabilitation centres, where children with disabilities are readied for school.
                Save the Children International, HOPE, Bangladesh