Disability Tech Index
Describe your situation in your own words — we'll match you to tools, services, and programs that could help. Free, from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation.
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A free, community-built guide to assistive technology — we've gathered over 6,000 products, services, programs, funding pathways, and everyday hacks to help make living with a disability a bit easier.
For a long time, the disability community has been doing the work of figuring out what helps. Trading recommendations in group chats. Writing the honest reviews nobody else would write. Sharing low-cost hacks that beat the "official" product. Helping each other piece together coverage and funding pathways that aren't supposed to be possible.
The Disability Tech Index is a place to gather what we've all been learning, in one spot, so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.
The Disability Tech Index is a nonprofit project from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation. For the last eight years, we've worked alongside innovators and researchers building tools for the disability community. Over and over we'd hear the same thing from people on every side — folks living with disabilities couldn't easily find what already existed, caregivers were searching alone late at night, and funders didn't have a clear picture of where the real gaps were.
We had a database. Over eight years it had grown to nearly 2,000 disability-focused products and services. In the last six months we expanded it to nearly 6,000 entries — services, funding programs, and the low- or no-cost hacks people actually use, alongside the products.
Then we opened a survey-chatbot, and hundreds of people across nearly every disability demographic spent real time telling us what their lives with assistive technology actually look like. What's worked. What hasn't. What they wished was different. We used the words they used. We tested thousands of real-world questions against the database, and refined it as we went.
What you're about to use is the result of all of that, and everyone who contributed to it. Thank you.
We're calling this a beta because it really is one — built well enough to be useful, not so polished that every answer will be right.
Use it as much as you want. Push it. Ask it weird, specific, complicated questions. If a recommendation is wrong, tell us. If something is out of date, tell us. If you tried something we suggested and it actually helped, we'd love to hear that too.
The more people who use the index, the better it gets. Every conversation feeds back into a more accurate catalog and a clearer picture of where the community is being underserved. We use what we learn to advocate for funding in the places that need it, and to share what we're seeing with the people who can act on it — researchers, funders, policymakers, and the communities themselves.
You don't need to give us your name to use the index. Conversations may inform our research, but they're kept confidential and anonymized to us. If you create a profile to save your context so you don't have to start over, you can delete it at any time.
And please treat what you find here as a starting point, not the final word. Confirm pricing, availability, and fit with the maker, a clinician, or someone who already uses the product before you buy or decide anything important. We're not a substitute for a professional, and we won't pretend to be.
Yes. No subscriptions, no premium tier, no payment required.
The Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation, a nonprofit that supports research and innovation in disability technology across the disability spectrum. The catalog itself was shaped by hundreds of people in the disability community who shared their experiences with us.
We don't take money from product makers to be listed, ranked, or recommended. No ads or affiliate links. The work is funded by the foundation and philanthropic support. (If you're a philanthropic funder interested in sustaining this work, reach out at info@disabilitytechindex.org.)
Because what counts as "the best wheelchair" depends entirely on who's using it, where they live, how much they can spend, and what they're trying to do. A few questions move us from a generic list to something actually useful. You can share as much or as little as you'd like.
Take it as a well-informed starting point. The catalog is curated and reviewed, but products and prices change constantly. Always confirm details with the maker, your clinician, or someone who already uses the product before deciding on something important.
No. The index isn't a substitute for a clinician, therapist, or doctor. For anything safety-related, please talk to someone qualified.
We'll tell you if we can't find a good match. Those misses are some of the most valuable things we collect — they tell us what to add next, and they show where the community is being underserved.
You can use the index without giving us any identifying information. Conversations may inform our research but are kept confidential and anonymized to us. If you create a profile, you can delete it at any time.
Yes. A profile lets you pick up where you left off, and we'll email you when a new option that fits your situation is added.
Of course. Family members, caregivers, clinicians, educators, employers, and friends use it for people they support all the time. If you're a professional supporting multiple people, you can keep multiple profiles in one account.
The foundation has maintained a database of disability-focused products and services for eight years. Over the past six months we expanded it from about 2,000 entries to nearly 6,000 — services, funding programs, and the low- or no-cost hacks people actually use, alongside the products. Every entry is reviewed for accuracy, and anything we couldn't verify is flagged.
Yes. We designed and tested with screen readers (VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS) and keyboard-only navigation from the start. The site aims to meet WCAG 2.2 AA. If something doesn't work for you, please tell us and we'll fix it.
There's a "report this" link on every recommendation. A person reads every report and we make the changes accordingly.
Yes. The best source of new entries is what people tell us they were looking for and couldn't find — or products and hacks you know about that we hadn't found ourselves. Using the index makes the next person's search easier. This is part of the research you agree to when you sign up: if you share something we didn't know about, we get to use it to make the catalog even richer.
Yes, please do. New submissions go through the same review as every other entry in the catalog. There's no fee to be listed, no paid placement, and no advertising. If your product is already in the index and something is wrong or out of date — pricing, features, coverage, regions served — email us at info@disabilitytechindex.org and a person on our team will review and update it. (A self-serve company portal is coming soon.)
Find assistive technology that fits your situation — from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation.
