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  A computer mouse steered with the mouth

  With the IntegraMouse a computer can be operated with the use of one’s mouth, whereby minimal movements of the lips are enough to move a cursor. The IntegraMouse was developed for people with paraplegia, myasthenia, motoric nerve diseases, and amputations and is seen as a full-value replacement for a conventional computer mouse.
  LIFEtool, Austria

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  Mapping the accessibility of vacation properties and itineraries

  EWB is an accommodation, tour information, and booking service catering mainly to persons with physical disabilities who wish to travel in Europe. The website covers bookings in seven countries. In 2016 EWB provided services to over 7,800 persons with disabilities, including over 3,500 hours of specialised assistance.
  AISM - Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society, Italy

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  This research project provides a comprehensive list of barriers in public transport systems and convenient solutions for vision and hearing impaired passengers. Authorities and public transport companies can use the results to improve their services.

  This research project provided an initial comprehensive list of barriers together with convenient solutions that should be considered for a barrier-free public transport system. The database provides approx. 300 best & worst practices (with photographs) as a toolkit to design barrier-free transport systems.
  WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Database for barrier-free public transport systems, Austria

• Blind women as experts in detecting breast cancer

  Discovering Hands uses the superior tactile perception of blind and visually impaired persons to improve palpatory diagnosis in the early detection of breast cancer. Discovering Hands trains blind and visually impaired women to become "Medizinisch Taktile Tastuntersucherin" (Clinical Breast Examiners).
  Discovering Hands Germany, Blind women as experts in detecting breast cancer, Germany

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  AccessibleMaps are 'talking city maps' offering geographic information online and on mobile phone to persons with visual impairments. The description of the city environment is read out loud by a synthetic voice.

  The spoken description of the map gives an idea of what a street looks like, how long it is, and what infrastructure, shops, and parks are nearby. The tool can be used to prepare for an upcoming trip or, via the mobile application, to get detailed information about one's surroundings while walking through the city.
  CEIT ALANOVA - Central European Institute of Technology, City maps, read out loud, Austria

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  Young people trained as Disability Inclusion Facilitators to motivate employers

  The Make 12.4% Work initiative is led by young people with disabilities who are trained and certified as Disability Inclusion Facilitators. They train member organizations to become more inclusive. From 2018 to 2020, 124 organizations have become members and 5,700 people have benefited.
  Light for the World Austria, Make 12.4% Work-Initiative, Uganda

• Mystery Clients with disabilities evaluating the accessibility and usability of services

  Access Israel, a leading NGO, trains training people with different disabilities to act as ‘mystery shoppers’ to covertly assess the level of accessibility and usability of services. Businesses pay for the service to improve their services, and many use it regularly. By 2021 testing teams had completed more than 300 assessments.
  Access Israel, Accessibility Testing and Evaluation by Undercover Clients with Disabilities, Israel

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  Remote speech-to-text and sign language interpretation

  VerbaVoice, is a flexible and customizable online interpreting platform. Each component (original video and audio, live transcript and sign language video, document upload) can be customized as needed. The system also works in multilingual contexts and facilitates foreign language learning processes.
  VerbaVoice GmbH, Germany

• Accurate navigation system for the blind and visually impaired to improve public services

  Waymap, an IT-start-up company from the United Kingdom, enables visually impaired people to orient themselves indoors and outdoors with a location accuracy of one meter. It is aimed at public transport operators, who offer the service free of charge to customers with disabilities.
  Waymap, Waymap, United Kingdom

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  Competition among students for innovative devices and software

  UNIKATE is a competition among a wide variety of students to solve every-day problems of persons with disabilities and the elderly. UNIKATE’s mission is to use their creative potential to invent tools and devices that support the specific needs, with the goal of constructing prototypes of the most promising ideas.
  Austrian Council for the Disabled, Unikate Ideenwettbewerb, Austria