Zero Project
An initiative of the Essl Foundation, focuses on the rights of persons with disabilities globally. It provides a platform where the most innovative and effective solutions to problems that persons with disabilities face, are shared. Its sole objective is to assist in creating a world without barriers.
Ronald L. Mace Universal Design Institute
Dedicated to promoting the concept and practice of accessible and universal design. The Institute’s work manifests the belief that all new environments and products, to the greatest extent possible, should and can be usable by everyone regardless of age, ability, or circumstance.
Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD)
IHCD is committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities through excellence in design. IHCD’s work balances expertise in legally required accessibility with promotion of best practices in human-centered or universal design.
Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC)
GUDC was established to develop Universal Design (UD) standards for buildings, products and services. GUDC is currently developing UD voluntary consensus standards for commercial buildings, which will expand access to buildings for all people, regardless of physical stature and varying abilities.
Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES)
GAATES is the leading international organization dedicated to the promotion of accessibility of the built and virtual environments.ld.
European Design for All e-Accessibility Network (EDeAN)
The European Institute for Design and Disability, EIDD, was founded in Dublin in 1993 with the aim of promoting better design for people with disabilities. This website is for design students and their tutors, professional designers, design managers and policy makers across Europe. It was created to introduce newcomers to key concepts, examples and design/research […]
Designing with People
Resources that support a general shift in design practice from designing for people to designing with people. This website has been created by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art to share ways to design with people.
Design for All
Collects and disseminates Universal Design/Design for All Good Practices and knowledge around the world; enhances the respect to human diversity and works for a world where everyone enjoys equal opportunities for personal development.
Access for All (Europe)
We are a group of professionals from all over Europe that have worked for many years in the field on disability, with focus towards full inclusion of people with disabilities. Our aim with this portal is to bring in the spotlights those initiatives that can make a difference, and that can have an impact on […]
Robotics to help people with vision disabilities to recognize objects
A hand-worn robotic device is being developed that will help millions of people who are blind or have low vision navigate past movable obstacles or assist in their ability to pre-locate, pre-sense and grasp an object.