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Accessibility resources attached to the Assistive Tech category.
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Seven students at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired helped develop a screen reader accessibility feature for the micro:bit coding tool, work that now extends to other platforms built on Blockly.
A blind Spanish player has spent nearly six years adapting Magic: The Gathering card by card using NFC tags and a phone screen reader, as Microsoft, Sony and ONCE push adapted hardware and braille editions into the mainstream.
Bambu Lab has partnered with seven accessibility organizations to run a global design challenge on its MakerWorld platform, asking makers to print devices that solve specific everyday problems for people with disabilities. The challenge runs from September through December 2026 with 24 design briefs.
Wandercraft's FDA-cleared Eve personal exoskeleton became commercially available in the United States on September 17, 2026, bringing hands-free upright mobility to eligible adults living with spinal cord injuries at any level who can operate the device's controller.
SMART Technologies has introduced SoundFlow, a plug-and-play system that broadcasts classroom audio from a SMART Board display directly to students' hearing aids, earbuds, headphones, and personal listening devices.
Design graduate Gargi Agrawalla has won the 2026 UK James Dyson Award for SIVO.GO, a portable alarm that uses on-device AI to recognise important sounds and alert deaf and hard-of-hearing users with vibrations and flashing lights instead of noise.
watchOS 27 became available on Monday, September 14, 2026, adding Audio Intelligence features to Apple Watch, including Sound Recognition, which alerts users who are deaf or hard of hearing to sounds such as sirens, alarms and doorbells even when their iPhone is not with them.
Legato, a hearing technology startup founded by Bose alumni, emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding and unveiled Legato Frames, AI-powered hearing glasses expected to launch this fall.
NV Access released the NVDA 2026.2 Release Candidate on August 24, 2026, adding a new built-in magnifier, significantly expanded touch gestures, and enhanced speech and braille capabilities to the free open-source Windows screen reader.