About

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

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.

The instinct is the same as Accomable: 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. It is a map of what exists.

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.