{"id":249446,"date":"2026-05-19T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/meet-the-accessibility-200-and-their-ai-tools\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:20:10","slug":"meet-the-accessibility-200-and-their-ai-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/meet-the-accessibility-200-and-their-ai-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Accessibility 200\u2014And Their AI Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet The Accessibility 200\u2014And Their AI Tools<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hnewman\/2026\/05\/19\/meet-the-accessibility-200-and-their-ai-tools\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-19 09:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Steffy McQuiggin, who is deaf-blind, carries on a conversation using Tatum Robotics’ AI-powered Tatum1, which turns written and spoken words into sign language deaf-blind individuals can feel with their hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tatum Robotics<\/p>\n

You search Amazon for a product: say, gourmet coffee. But instead of the robust, buttery blend you wanted, you\u2019re served with \u201c1-48 of over 100,000 results for \u2018coffee\u2019.\u201d You gamely tick some filters and click a few product pages, but after a few minutes, you give up and hit the nearest Starbucks.<\/p>\n

For people with limited vision or certain types of autism, that sense of overwhelm is even more dramatic. Enter AI.<\/p>\n

Return to the site and Amazon\u2019s Help Me Decide button can pop up, offering the best 2-3 choices based on your previous purchases and clicks, what other people similar to you liked, relevant reviews and more. AI also powers Amazon\u2019s Dialog Boost option, which helps the hearing-impaired (and anyone else) better understand what characters are saying when those loud action-movie sound effects go boom. And AI helped to build the underlying voice models for Kindle Assistive Reader, which reads all Kindle ebooks aloud while a highlight follows the text, used by people who prefer to absorb information with multiple modalities, parents teaching their children to read\u2014and the blind.<\/p>\n

\u201dAI is actually the first thing that really, truly has the potential to tip the scales in the way we think about equitable experiences for people with disabilities,\u201d says JoAnna Hansen, Amazon\u2019s director of Experience Quality Technologies. \u201dIt comes with a lot of risk. We have to be very thoughtful about how we do it. But it levels the playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of the global artificial intelligence boom derives from how it creates ultra-personalized interactions (some might call relationships) with technologies and products. For people with disabilities, from mobility and sensory limitations to cognitive and limb differences\u2014meaning about one-sixth…<\/p>\n

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