Accessibility and assistive technology. Wheelchairs, screen readers, prosthetics, and the ADA-driven built environment.
It is an entire industry.
It exists to relieve Lose the ability to work or care for oneself, at any age. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Medical science and Building codes. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
1 organisations in this map sell it, 1 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionAccessibility and assistive technology
- FrictionLose the ability to work or care for oneself, at any age
- Life phaseAcross every phase
- Rooted inSafety
- Rooted inScarce resources
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cochlear | $12B | public · COH | cochlear implants |