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Two researchers from Ability visited the XR Lab at Ericsson Research, Lund, Sweden to try out and discuss haptic tech for XR (eXtended reality). The setups in question were: bHaptics Tactsuit x40 vest, gloves and arm bands with Meta Quest 3 in demo games for assembling and shooting weart TouchDIVER haptic glove G1 with Meta Quest 3 in demo environment with different shapes, surfaces and temperatures Nintendo Switch with Nintendo Labo motorcycle setup and game   The devices al

insideONE+ and insideSUPRA Presented at GPEAA 2025 in Lille October 9, 2025 – Lille, France At the GPEAA 2025 trade show (Groupement des Professeurs et Éducateurs d’Aveugles et d’Amblyopes), our team proudly presented insideONE+ and insideSUPRA, two innovative solutions designed to enhance accessibility for people who are blind or visually impaired. We began with insideONE+, highlighting its role in the Ability Project. This tactile and digital Braille tablet combines Braille

Great news! We’re happy to share that our journal paper is now published in IEEE Access and available on IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11146787 In this work, we explore a semi-automatic, human-centred AI approach for image conversational descriptions that truly fit their target users: Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) people. Here is the idea in a nutshell: LLMs generate initial image-conversation drafts → BVI experts refine what matters most → the AI lear

European Accessibility Act (EAA) 2025 European Accessibility Act (EAA) will start applying across all EU Member States — marking a big step toward a more inclusive digital Europe from June 28 2025 The EAA extends accessibility requirements beyond the public sector to include private digital services and products. This means that websites, mobile apps, e-commerce platforms, e-books, and digital communications offered in the EU must be accessible for everyone, including people

EBU in action We are delighted to share that a member of the ABILITY project team recently took part in the European Blind Union’s...

Part of the ABILITY consortium participated to the AAATE 2025 conference, in Cyprus, two weeks ago. In particular, ULUND, OFFIS and CEA...

A map of Lithuania and its neighbouring countries, A map of Ukraine highlighting occupied territories, In late June, Vilnius hosted a...

As part of the EU ABILITY project initiative, accessibility and inclusion remain at the heart of technological innovation. Recently, we...

Since June 28, 2025, the European Directive EU 2019/882 on the accessibility of products and services has officially come into effect in...

ABILITY workshop in Vilnius together with LASS. Eleven participants (blind, severely visually impaired), tried two prototypes. One...

Ability and ULUND were invited to participate in IKEA Sweden’s internal Accessibility Day. To demonstrate the potential of the future...

Detail of tactile map printed with UV-printer. Exploring Innovative Tactile Media at the Blista in Marburg In February, we had the great...

lt-llama2 performance graph - loss vs training steps (image source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12963 ) In late 2024, researchers from...

From image to dots: geographic map example "On Wednesday, 29. January 2025 ABILITY partners from Lund University (Sweden) have presented...

image source: https://aaate2025.eu/ 🌟 Call for Papers: Designing Non-Visual Interactions with Haptic and Multimodal Interactive Displays...

"We’re excited to share that on January 25th, we were at the Aura-Hotel Saulgrub with the Deutscher Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband e....

Illustration by ChatGPT of tactile micro-gestures (but it is actually missing a microgesture :)) I had the chance to participate to the...

Ability's consortium member, InsideVision , has presented the insideSUPRA and insideONE+ at the Rehafair exhibition in Marburg, Germany...

The ABILITY project was presented at the European Blind Union (EBU) Low Vision Committee meeting in Slovenia, on 26th of November. The...

"The department "Communication Science" of the German University of Muenster has been running the project "Communicative means for...