About

Assistive AI exists because most lists of AI for accessibility are launch posts. They do not say who a tool is actually for, whether you can still buy it, or where it falls short.

Who started it

Assistive AI was started by Srin Madipalli, a wheelchair user and the founder of Accomable — the accessible travel site Airbnb acquired in 2017. At Airbnb he led product work on making homes easier for disabled guests to find. Srin now runs People & Robots, an AI studio in London.

Same idea as Accomable: we do not take a vendor’s word for it. If a listing says a product helps with a task, the page should say how, and a person should have checked.

What this is

Assistive AI is a directory of AI tools for disabled people. Browse by who it helps or what you need to do, or ask in your own words.

How a listing gets here

Every public listing is published by a person. Research may start with notes from the web; nothing goes live until an editor has read it. How we list is the full version.