Five promises we make every day.
Every tool we ship, every partnership we sign, and every hire we make is measured against these. They are non-negotiable.
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Dignity first
Accessibility is not a feature we add at the end — it is the foundation we start from. Every user deserves full, independent access with no compromise.
- 02
Our founder is visually impaired
No product decision gets made without lived experience in the room. Our founder lives the problem we build for — and steers every design call accordingly.
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Open by default
All our core software is MIT-licensed. Translations are crowd-sourced. Knowledge and access should never be gatekept by cost, language, or geography.
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Built for where people live
We design for 2G networks, five-year-old smartphones, and the last mile. If it only works in a lab in San Francisco, it doesn't work.
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Radical transparency
Every dollar donated is tracked to a program. Every impact number is auditable. Every mistake we make is published — because trust is earned, not claimed.
Voice-first tools, built with our community
Two active projects — a voice navigator for the web, and a social network for blind and low-vision users. Each starts from voice, not vision.
TE — AI Voice Navigator
Say "Hey TE" and go anywhere on our site, read the page aloud, switch themes, or control the audio tour — no mouse, no keyboard.
AI Assistant · Live on webThird Eye World
A voice-first social network built from scratch for blind and low-vision users. Every post is a voice memo. Every action is a voice command.
Social · Coming soonVoices from our community
Real people, real independence. The work is never about us — it's about what becomes possible.
Pete Gustin and the feel of a wave
A longboard surfer who has been blind for most of his career reads waves with his feet, ears, and a spotter in the channel. His craft is a working demo of what 'voice-first' and 'feel-first' can be.
Why 'accessibility mode' is the wrong mental model
Bolting accessibility onto a product late is how we ended up with second-class experiences. We argue for voice-first as the default — not an afterthought mode.
Haben Girma — lawyer, author, first deafblind Harvard Law graduate
Haben's career is a reminder that the 'access' in accessibility is a practice, not a compliance checkbox. She changed the courts. She is still changing the internet.
Every story we've published,
newest first.
Pete Gustin and the feel of a wave
A longboard surfer who has been blind for most of his career reads waves with his feet, ears, and a spotter in the channel. His craft is a working demo of what 'voice-first' and 'feel-first' can be.
Pete Gustin and the feel of a wave
A longboard surfer who has been blind for most of his career reads waves with his feet, ears, and a spotter in the channel. His craft is a working demo of what 'voice-first' and 'feel-first' can be.
Haben Girma — lawyer, author, first deafblind Harvard Law graduate
Haben's career is a reminder that the 'access' in accessibility is a practice, not a compliance checkbox. She changed the courts. She is still changing the internet.
Erik Weihenmayer's Everest — and the quiet engineering behind it
The first blind climber to summit Everest did it with a team, a rope, and a patiently-built toolkit of haptic and verbal cues. Good assistive tech is the same discipline at smaller scale.
Christine Ha cooks without sight — and teaches why that matters
The MasterChef winner runs a restaurant kitchen by smell, sound, timing, and muscle memory. Every visit is a case study in adaptive design, translated into the web.
Your support opens worlds.
$10 a month connects one user for a full year. Every contribution funds free tools, free training, and free devices for those who need them most.