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Assistive and Accessible Tech

Explore 66 projects in the Assistive and Accessible Tech category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

The web and other technologies should be accessible to all people. The ability to use technology regardless of disability or status is a fundamental precursor to that technology serving civic goals.

66 projects

Accessible Democracy Tracker

CAP's Accessible Democracy Tracker identifies barriers to accessible voting across U.S. states as well as opportunities to strengthen election accessibility for disabled Americans.

2026

Start My Claim

Start My Claim is a commercial self-help legal case tool that helps people in the UK run their own employment tribunal, small claims, scam-refund and renters' rights cases without a solicitor.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Shepard-AI

Shepard-AI is a free, open-source AI co-regulator app meant to guide people through panic attacks, trauma triggers and executive dysfunction in real time.

2026

쉬운신문 (Easy Newspaper)

Media Today plans to create an 'Easy Newspaper' that people with developmental disabilities can read, in collaboration with the social enterprise Sosohansotong, which produces easy-to-understand information.

Seoul
2026

BetaNYC's mta-mcp

mta-mcp is an open-source MCP server from BetaNYC that lets an AI assistant answer one narrow NYC-transit question well, is the subway line you're recommending disrupted at a specific station on a specific future date, plus elevator/ADA status, drawing on the MTA's open service-alert feeds.

New York City
2026

Sign Language to Text (SL2T)

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), a model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

Marylebone, London, UK
2026

Ashirase

Shoe-mounted navigation system for the visually impaired.

Japan

Inclusive Navi

Barrier-free navigation app for the Nihonbashi area

Tokyo

WheeLog!

WheeLog! is a nonprofit, crowdsourced accessibility-map app from Japan that shows wheelchair users where they can go, mapping barrier-free spots and GPS-recorded accessible routes contributed by its global user community.

Japan