The degree of a society’s development can be measured by looking at the extent to which it succeeds in including people with disabilities in education, employment and social activities. In an increasingly digitalised world, information and communication technologies (ICT) make our lives easier. However, they also create new challenges for people living with disabilities.
A wide variety of research and innovation actions funded by the European Commission aim to develop technologies for accessibility that assist people with disabilities in making a more autonomous and independent use of ICT. These actions also seek to foster the adoption of new development methodologies based on the principle of ‘design for all’.
The list of projects is also available in a downloadable PDF.
Technology for people with visual and hearing impairments
SUITCEYES is using sensor technologies, machine learning, gamification and smart haptic interfaces to help people with deaf-blindness.
Cognitive control of a hearing aid(COCOHA) is a project to help people affected by hearing loss by enhancing sounds that the user wants to hear and suppressing the rest
This project helps visually impaired and elderly people with event-driven mobile communication technologies
3D Tune-In develops games and virtual-reality applications to help people affected by hearing loss and raise awareness of the problem.
This project is developing a personal assistive device for blind and visually impaired people.
ABBI develops audio bracelets for blind interaction, a new technology based on sensory-motor rehabilitation for visually impaired children.
Technology for people with motor impairments
This project aims to develop a minimaly invasive bidirectional neural system to help patients with Parkinson's disease.
This project aims at creating an intention-based enhancement of reaching and grasping in physically disabled people.
AIDE entails the creation of an adaptive multimodal interfaces to assist disabled people in daily activities.
This project is about the restoration of upper limb function in individuals with high spinal cord injury with the help of multimodal neuroprostheses.
MAMEM creates a technology to give people with severe motor disabilities the ability to control multimedia interfaces with the eyes and mind.
Technology for people with cognitive, learning and neurological impairements
INSENSION is a personalized intelligent platform enabling interaction with digital services to individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Easy Reading is a project to create a framework for personalised cognitive accessibility when using original digital content.
The main objective of GABLE project is to launch a social platform of personalized games to improve the living conditions of people with cerebral palsy.
DE-ENIGMA develops a multi-modal human-robot interaction for teaching and expanding social imagination in autistic children.
FocusLocus aims to create an ADHD management gaming system for educational achievement and social inclusion
This project will manage affective-learning through intelligent atoms and smart interactions.
InLife will incubate a new learning and inspiration framework for education.
ABLE TO INCLUDE will provide an accessibility layer for the inclusion in the information society of people with intellectual disabilities.
POSEIDON is a project with the aim to develop personalized smart environments to increase inclusion of people with down's syndrome.
Accessible Information and Communication Technology
This project will implement an ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and prosperity for all stakeholders.
WAI-guide is a project that will develop an authoritative implementation guidance and international cooperation to support training, awareness raising, and capacity building.
WADcher supports the Web Accessibility Directive decision support environment.
WAI-tools develops advanced decision support tools for scalable web accessibility assessments.
WAI-dev is about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) ecosystem for inclusive design and development.