Ssense is a Montreal-based clothing retailer offering high-end streetwear and designer fashion for both men and women. Their website showcases more than 70,000 items from over 500 labels, incorporating new and emerging designers as well as household names like Gucci and Prada. Emphasizing product and editorial, the website is a clean, minimalist design with simple navigational options.
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Google Lookout, an innovative assistive technology application developed by Google, offers enhanced vision support to individuals facing visual impairments, encompassing blindness and low vision. This free Android app employs the capabilities of AI and image recognition technology to identify objects and read text using the smartphone’s camera, making it an invaluable tool for those with
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology adopted a clever way to answer the question “What’s that bird?” making the wealth of knowledge in ornithology accessible to the general public. This critique provides user-centric insights on how usable the Merlin Bird ID app is for a user interested in identifying and learning more about birds around them.
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Apple Maps is a web mapping service created by Apple inc. Apple Maps is the default mapping software on all iOS devices. As a web mapping service, Apple Maps provides global cartography based on the travel patterns from iOS devices. Users can get directions through various modes of transportation as well as find locations nearby
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Project Relate is an Android beta application built by Google, which uses machine learning to help individuals with non-standard speech communicate more effectively in daily face-to-face interactions.
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XRAI Glass is a new product that provides an app and eyewear that can be connected to get subtitles in real time. This assistive technology has transformed how people with disabilities like deafness and hard of hearing navigate the world around them. The founders, Dan Scarfe and Mitchell Feldman created this product to help their
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The Amazon Kindle is the best selling e-reader on the market since its launch in 2007, with more than 30 million active Kindle users in the U.S. alone. Though not specifically designed for people with disabilities, it offers a variety of assistive features for users of all skill levels and abilities.
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Amazon’s AI product, Alexa, offers multiple ways to help complete daily tasks. However, as a virtual assistant, Alexa is more than just a convenient tool that helps check things off your to-do list. It opens up many new opportunities and capabilities for wider audiences—making it a great example of an accessible and inclusive product.
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INTRODUCTIONThe TD Pilot by Tobii Dynavox is one of the multiple ACC (Augmentative Alternative Communication) devices featured in their range of products. TD Pilot specifically is an eye-controlled device for iPad, designed to empower people with conditions such as spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, or select ALS instances to communicate through their apps of choice
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The Apple watch is a wearable technology marvel that not only is a timepiece but a companion, a personal trainer, a communication hub, all wrapped around the wrist. It offers a wealth of features like a built-in screen reader, the ability to enable grayscale, adjust text size, increase contrast of elements on the screen, and many more that empower individuals of all abilities.
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