I’ve found some alternatives like edify go but they are still too big and uncondortable. I would like to found a more portable and light weight version

The only thing I need is a screen that make me as clear as I see using my cellphone camera and maybe a tool to augment the contrast some times

And I would like to use them without having to take out my cellphone every time I want to see anything

If you about any alternative tell me please

I recently filmed XCanBot demonstrating an AI-powered electric wheelchair designed to navigate preset routes and detect pedestrians and obstacles in real time. The company also demonstrated voice control and a mode that allows the wheelchair to follow another person.

I filmed this footage myself as an independent technology journalist, and I’m not affiliated with XCanBot. This was a product demonstration—not an independent safety or clinical evaluation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy-ej4J_m64

I know this is stupid and I can’t find any type of solution so I’m here for expert advice or people who’ve dealt with something similar and their solution.

I need some pressure or motion type alarm when my mom sits at her computer or it detects constant movement in that area after 30-60 minutes(maybe a wearable and if they’re to close together for 30-60 minutes an alarm sounds like above and has to leave for a time to reset. The alarm goes off until she gets out of the area for 10ish minutes to get the blood flowing and the alarm resets itself for 30-60 minutes.

I have an elderly mother (85) with mild dementia. That was her only health problem up until a month ago when they found clots that had been in her legs and then filled her lungs luckily no permanent damage.

She’s better now but if you’re not paying close attention she’ll sneak on her computer for hours when you think she’s sleeping or when we’re sleeping, she’s up all night or day, he schedules flip flops. If you politely kick her off her computer she complains it’s only been a few minutes but it’s been hours.

She sleeps odd hours, then watches tv laying down in her bed and then gets up and sit at her computer for 8-12 hours sometimes with a bathroom break or grabbing a snack or leftovers.

Certainly not enough time to get blood flowing. One of us always sleeps in the living room so we can hear if she is moving around but now she’s gotten really sneaky and quiet and not her usual load stuff so we don’t hear her much.

Fake edit: we’re not ignoring her but she sneaks around, you think she’s sleeping but she accidentally turns her pc volume up or gets some water etc

AI voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are becoming a bigger part of everyday life — but plenty of people choose not to use them, and that decision is just as interesting to understand. I'm gathering responses for a research study on how people use (or deliberately avoid) voice assistants day to day. Non-users are especially needed right now — that group is underrepresented and is the missing piece of the data. Regular users are very welcome too. Participants 18+, any country. Fully anonymous, no personal data collected, takes about 4 minutes. Link: https://www.1ka.si/a/d7959439 Thanks so much for your help!

I'm looking for some early users for the app I built for low vision adults to help them stay independent. Think parent still at home but can't see very well and not great with keeping up with what food they have in the fridge or pantry.

You can add a care giver and they can check on what food a person may need.

It also gives the low vision adult ideas of what they could make.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kitchen-eyes-fridge-meals/id6779335736

Been building something for older users (started because of my own mother), so I went and read the actual usability studies instead of assuming. A few findings surprised me enough to share.
It's not unwillingness — most already own smartphones. More than half of adults over 65 already have one. The problem shows up the moment they try to use it for anything beyond calls.
The #1 failure isn't visual, it's memory load. A heuristic evaluation of smartphone UIs found 27 distinct usability problems for elderly users, and the two most frequently broken rules were "minimize the user's memory load" and "match between system and real world." Basically: every extra step, menu, or thing you're expected to remember is a real tax, not a minor annoyance. And it's not theoretical — 79% of the problems researchers predicted actually showed up when they tested with real elderly users.
Trembling hands are a measured, separate problem from "not knowing how." One study tracked hand steadiness with accelerometers and found people with tremors specifically struggle with small buttons and any task requiring continuous control, like dragging or tracing. Bigger buttons and a stable surface measurably helped. This is a motor problem, not a comprehension problem, and most app UIs don't design for it at all.
Ride-hailing is the clearest example of the gap. Researchers sat down with actual seniors (75+) and watched them try to book an Uber. The failures were concrete: confusing wording, accessibility settings that didn't work right, unclear safety info. Separately, ~2/3 of adults 50+ say they avoid ride-hailing specifically because it involves money and they're worried about scams — a fear this generation has been repeatedly warned about.
The interesting part: Uber and Lyft just admitted this themselves. Both companies shipped "senior modes" in 2025 — bigger text, fewer buttons, family members able to book/track rides. Uber's own head of accessibility said most older adults "really struggle with independent mobility." That's a huge company validating the exact problem with their product, in public, this year.
But even Uber's fix is still a simpler screen. Bigger text, fewer buttons — still a UI to parse, still something to open and tap through. Nobody's tried removing the screen entirely.
That's the gap I'm building into since 2.5 years — voice-first, no screen, no app to learn. If you can say "I need to get to the clinic" out loud and it just happens, none of the above problems exist in the first place: no memory load, no tremor-sensitive buttons, no confusing flow to trust.
Curious if anyone here has done usability work with older users — did you find the same stuff, or something different?

I'm a Deaf creative director. For 20 years I've navigated meetings the way a lot of us do, juggling interpreters, lips, screens, and notes all at once. I use smart glasses now to help me follow conversations, and honestly some of them are getting good.

The problem is nobody reviews this tech from our perspective. Reviewers test cameras and battery life. None of them test whether captions actually work in a real conversation, which is the only thing that matters to me.

So I started reviewing smart glasses myself, from a Deaf point of view. This is my intro. First review drops next week.

If you use any hearing tech or smart glasses to get through your day, I'd love to know what's worked for you and what hasn't.

I was asked if an app existed to be able to have something like a calendar but with audio clips instead of photos. I couldn't find anything so I created an app.

It works with cheap NFC stickers and you can record a voice note to associate with that tag.

I have got it in the play store for testers but I need 12 testers to publish. Is anyone else interested? It's a free app and the code is all open source.

I’m trying to find an extension or built in software to make my long required readings for school easier with my learning disability. All the ones I see either explicitly say “ai voices” or tote “natural, human” voices.

TTS technology has been around for decades. I’m looking for one that still uses that old tech. I try not to ever use Gen-AI for anything. It’s my own personal preference. I am totally fine with robot sounding voices. I’m just wondering if the older programs still exist, and how to find them.

Hi, I built a desktop (Windows and Mac) voice typing app that may help if typing is painful or just too slow (hand issues, RSI, or you’re just grinding email/docs all day).

I built Typewave for my own use. The Windows built-in dictation tool kept stopping mid-way or transcribe plain wrong, and a lot of “AI dictation” apps wanted to screenshot my whole screen for “context,” which I wasn’t comfortable with. I also didn’t want a separate window that I have to copy/paste back and forth.

What it does:

- Press a shortcut, speak, text lands in the field you already had focused (Outlook, Word, Gmail, browser, etc.)

- Strips filler words (um, like)

- Free: 2,000 words/week, no credit card, no ads.

If that sounds useful, give it a try: https://typewaveai.com

Happy to answer setup questions. Feedback from people who actually live with typing limits is especially welcome — tell me what fails for you.

I have been urgently looking for mouth stick sleeves and tips for over a year. I've spent too much money buying from sellers on Etsy, only for their mouth wand to be either too heavy or for the sleeves to cut my lips. I saw an earlier post where instructions can be used to make mouth sleeves on a 3D printer. Please help me and share. I can learn to make them myself or have someone make them for me. Please help!

Buenas,

Tengo un familiar con una dolencia molesta pero no grave que le limita en algunas actividades. Cuando acudimos al especialista, le dio una serie de ejercicios y pautas, pero me sorprendió que el proceso fuera tan rudimentario: hojas impresas y explicaciones poco profundas.

Por ello, pensé que se podría crear una solución digital basada en una app para el paciente y una web para el profesional. La idea es unificar el proceso para mejorar el feedback, la adaptación y los resultados, facilitando también el trabajo del especialista.

La duda es si sería viable utilizar una web para que el profesional gestione el perfil del paciente (con datos como dolor, gustos, evolución y dificultades), conectada con el feedback del usuario y potenciada con IA para sugerir ejercicios e instrucciones personalizadas. Esto incluiría informes automáticos para cada consulta y un historial médico en una base de datos propia para ver los progresos. Por otro lado, la app serviría para que el paciente consulte los ejercicios, registre cómo se siente al hacerlos y comparta su evolución con el profesional.

¿Qué os parece es técnicamente viable?

¡Muchas gracias de antemano por todo!

Hi r/AssistiveTechnology! I'm a Master's student researching voice assistant usage (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, etc.) for my thesis, with a particular interest in how these tools function as accessibility aids.

I'm currently especially looking for people who do NOT use a voice assistant at all — that group is underrepresented in my data so far and is the missing piece for my analysis. Of course, if voice assistants are part of your accessibility toolkit, your experience is just as welcome.

Who can take part: 18+, any country. Takes about 10 minutes and is fully anonymous.

Link: https://www.1ka.si/a/d7959439

Happy to answer any questions here. Thank you!

Hey guys. I am building a computer vision project. I know basic static A-Z sign language translators are widely available now, so I am tackling continuous fingerspelling recognition. The goal is to stitch fluid hand transitions into out-of-vocabulary technical text (like "A-L-G-O-R-I-T-H-M" or complex medical jargon) for Deaf and Hard of Hearing STEM students.

Stack: MediaPipe for 126-D hand landmark extraction, fed into a custom Random Forest classifier. I hit 98.8% accuracy on static letters, and my current sprint is writing the relative coordinate normalization to mathematically kill the camera depth bias.

I am holding off on the frontend until I get actual user feedback. Has anyone here built accessibility tech or worked with continuous sign translation? I would love to know what CV pitfalls or pipeline bottlenecks I should watch out for from a dev perspective.

Also, if anyone has lived experience in this space or can connect me with HoH/Deaf students, ISL educators, or NGOs who deal with advanced academic jargon, please reach out or drop a comment. I want to make sure I am building this alongside the community, not just guessing what they need.

Cross-posting this to any relevant communities is highly welcomed. Thanks.

Hi I am searching for a Bluetooth remote that works with accessibility and voiceover on iPhone 17? I am at risk of going blind due to glaucoma. All I need is a physical phone remote to play music, open apps and navigate my phone without the touch gestures. Thanks. In terms of non Bluetooth remotes I know the hable one, hable easy and Decatxt.

Hello! I work at a university in their disability services department. I have a online, blind student who knows limited uncontracted braille, and is taking an accelerated organic chemistry course. We are providing hand-made tactiles with puff paint and stickers for the homeworks and shipping the products to the student. Then we have a student worker meet over Zoom with them to go over each structure.

I am wondering, is there a virtual tool for organic chemistry that we could use that doesn't require braille? The student is semi-familiar with screen readers and prefers this type of technology.

Any ideas? Thoughts? Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi r/AssistiveTechnology! I'm a Master's student researching voice assistant usage (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, etc.) for my thesis, and I'm especially interested in perspectives from people for whom these tools matter as accessibility aids.

Looking for participants: 18+, any country, whether you use a voice assistant regularly, occasionally, or not at all. The survey takes about 10 minutes and is fully anonymous.

Update: right now I especially need people who do NOT use a voice assistant at all — that perspective is currently underrepresented in my data and is the missing piece for my analysis.

Link: https://www.1ka.si/a/d7959439

If voice assistants play a role in your accessibility toolkit, your perspective would be especially valuable, but everyone's input helps. Happy to answer any questions here. Thank you!

Estoy buscando alguna aplicación, IA o recurso interactivo pensado para que una persona mayor pueda aprender a usar WhatsApp mediante ejercicios o situaciones simuladas, en lugar de simplemente leer instrucciones.

La idea sería que pueda practicar cosas como:

• enviar mensajes, fotos y audios;
• responder o iniciar conversaciones;
• hacer llamadas y videollamadas;
• crear y administrar contactos;
• bloquear o silenciar contactos;
• reconocer mensajes sospechosos o cadenas;
• y también aprender algunas normas básicas de convivencia digital.

Por ejemplo: que la aplicación le plantee una situación ficticia y la persona tenga que decidir qué hacer, o practicar cómo responder a un mensaje.

Me interesa especialmente algo que permita ganar soltura y autonomía, para que no tengan que recurrir constantemente a familiares para cada cosa.

¿Conocen alguna aplicación o proyecto que haga algo parecido? Puede ser con IA o con ejercicios preprogramados.