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  Online training for parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities

  Accessing UrAbility, users are first guided through a selection tool to choose the best fitting Assistive Technology. They are then auto-assigned courses based on their technical abilities, language, and location. The courses contain video demonstrations, live Q&A sessions, and access to a closed meet-up group
  UrAbility, Assistive Technology to Support Children with Learning Disabilities, Ireland

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  An online toolbox of symbols enabling communication for all, without the use of language

  Global Symbols, an NGO from the United Kingdom, provides graphic symbols for assistive and alternative forms of communication as well as online tools for their use, but also for creating your own symbols. The offer is free and open source. In 2021 more than 5,000 people used Global Symbols, and a training programme was developed with UNICEF.
  Global Symbols CIC, Global Symbols CIC, United Kingdom

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  Online library of multilingual signed stories, jointly edited and developed

  Deaf World Around You is a web-based library, organized by the Rochester Institute of Technology of the United States. It enables the creation and sharing of stories in sign language. Images, text, and videos featuring sign language storytellers, targeted towards low and middle income countries.
  Rochester Institute of Technology, Deaf World Around You (WAY), Indonesia

• All aspects of oral communication in daily life are made accessible. Furthermore SCOP Le Messageur offers transcription services for events, meetings, conferences, congresses, cultural events etc. with the transcriber on site or working remotely via the internet.

  SCOP Le Messageur offers simultaneous transcription of speech in French, in 15 other languages and in Braille. The transcribed text can be read on a PC screen, a mobile device or a screen installed in a meeting room. SCOP also advises on the accessibility of event locations and conducts training on safety in regard to venues.
  Le Messageur - Innovative Services for the Hearing Impaired, Oral communication made fully accessible, France

• NVDA is a free, fully functional, portable screen reader for Microsoft Windows that allows blind and vision-impaired persons across the world access to computers at no greater cost than their sighted peers.

  Thanks to NVDA, blind and vision-impaired people can participate in education, the workforce and aspects of daily living that were previously impossible or difficult to access such as reading, shopping, banking and social networking. In 2013 NVDA was the only fully functional, multi-lingual, free download available to everyone.
  NV Access Limited, Portable screen-reader, free of charge, Australia

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  A municipal-level pilot-project towards continuous schooling of children with autism

  In this pilot-project children with autism are accompanied from kindergarten onwards by trained teachers and by mentors who also assist parents with out-of-school issues. In school, special learning materials and mentors working with regular teachers are provided to facilitate the inclusion of children with autism.
  Vienna Board of Education, Children with autism pilot-project, Austria

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  Government-level initiative to promote inclusive employment policies

  The State Exchange on Employment & Disability is an initiative to help state and local governments take measures to integrate people with disabilities. Support is provided through intermediary organizations. Between 2015 and 2020 more than 300 integration policies were adopted by 42 US states and two territories.
  US Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), State Exchange on Employment & Disability (SEED), United States of America

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  Tool to improve readability of texts built into mainstream apps and services

  The Immersive Reader uses inclusive design and adjustable features thus allowing improved reading and text decoding, writing, and language learning. The tool is free and built into Microsoft products on web, PC, Mac, iOS and Android. Users are most notably people with dyslexia, visual impairment or autism.
  Microsoft Corporation, Immersive Reader, United States of America

• E-Learning for teachers, caregivers, and families

  The platform was launched in September 2015 and is available (as of 2016) in English, French, Spanish, and Romanian. It offers four training modules (with a total of 400 hours of learning), which are especially targeted towards those working and living with persons with disabilities, such as teachers, caregivers, and families.
  Des Amis de l’Atelier Foundation, France

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  Sign language relay service with a successful scaling strategy

  DeafTawk is a technology start-up that has developed a mobile application that connects deaf users with certified sign language interpreters in real time and around the clock via video calls. DeafTawk is available on both IOS and Android, and in 2020 has 14,600 users in Pakistan as well as in Singapore.
  DeafTawk, DeafTawk, Pakistan