Tag: Disability

It’s important to safeguard children against improper content online. Students in Indonesia, meanwhile, have focused on how people with Down’s Syndrome or Fragile X Syndrome can learn about protecting their sphere of privacy. The team developed a simple system using three different colours of soap. Allowing parents or carers to impart crucial information on intimate areas during bathtime using...

Smart glasses can protect blind people from collisions. Dogs are not immune to losing their sight either. Which is why Texas-based students are focusing on a solution that will stop blind dogs injuring themselves while out playing or walking. Their innovation: a smart vest with a hood. Attached to it at eye level are two cameras, with 8 vibrating...

A digital pen can convert braille into text, while a glove does the same for sign language. A London-based startup, in turn, has developed a cloud-based platform to translate text, voice and video into British Sign Language. An AI-powered avatar does the signing. Training with data sets incorporated different dialects, contextual language and emotional tone. Comprising deaf members who use...

Sustainable shops and restaurants can be found online. People on the autism spectrum, with ADHD or learning difficulties have their own specific needs. Now a non-profit organisation from Alabama has created an online map tool for New York to drive inclusion of the neurodivergent community in public life. Users can add their favourite spots to the map assuming they...

A mobile box turns any space into a classroom. Now a Nigerian-based firm is concentrating on providing IT training to the country’s deaf and hearing-impaired community. A new digital platform will help students with programming or data analysis. All in sign language. With extra video courses teaching Java, SQL and C++. Personalised mentoring programmes ease the transition into professional...

Herbs and spices can aid memory and indigestion. Now, a blind female chef is aiming to make cooking safer for blind or vision-impaired people. In a series of accessible videos, she provides tips, cooks different recipes and introduces helpful tools. Like measuring spoons with tactile raised dots that make it easier to get quantities right. Or a ceramic coin...

The right outfit can help people relax. But comfort is also a must for those who wear prosthetic limbs. Enter a London-based startup which is aiming to ensure artificial and real body parts fit perfectly together. The team’s smart liner stems from a university project and is padded with an elastic silicone insert with embedded air chambers. The insert...

Light switches can be controlled remotely thanks to a ring, while some glasses correct blind spots in wearers’ field of vision. All these innovations mean increased integration for people with specific disabilities. And now a Romanian startup is looking specifically at website access. An app designed for businesses constantly monitors their websites for accessibility issues and makes recommendations -...