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Enable Ventures has closed its debut fund at $50 million in total commitments, billing it as the first market-rate venture fund dedicated to closing the disability wealth gap by backing AI-driven inclusive and assistive technology.
A total of 169 public servants from Ukraine's Kyiv, Odesa and Ternopil regions have completed digital accessibility training run by the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the UNDP, part of a national push to make government websites and online services usable by people with disabilities.
A federal judge has approved an agreement between HHS and five states that deletes 'most integrated setting' provisions from the 2024 Section 504 regulations, a change disability advocates say undercuts decades of community-integration protections.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued national discount retailer Ollie's Bargain Outlet, alleging the chain refused to hire a profoundly deaf applicant at its Lancaster, Texas distribution warehouse and applied a hiring standard requiring workers to have the ability to hear.
Three major foundations are developing Artichoke Credit Union, a first-of-its-kind financial institution built around the needs of people with disabilities, with plans to open next year.
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.
A legally blind shopper has filed a class action against Groupon in federal court in Minnesota, alleging that groupon.com does not work with screen reader software and violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Minnesota Human Rights Act.
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.
The Federal Transit Administration has selected eight projects in five states for about $233 million through its All Stations Accessibility Program, including $80 million to make three Philadelphia trolley stations fully accessible.