Accessibility / assistive AIassistive technology and accessibilityParticipation documented
Seeing AI
Redmond, United States
Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world for blind and low vision people right from your mobile device. It supports individuals with a variety of daily tasks such as reading mail, identifying everyday products, hearing descriptions of photos, and much more.
inclusive designaccessibilityproblem formulationdesignevaluationdeployment
- Region
- North America
- Lead organization
- Microsoft
- Organization type
- company research
- Technology group
- computer vision
- Activity status
- active
- Start year
- Not documented
- Last updated
- Mar 25, 2026
- Participation mode
- disability-first participatory design
- Participants
- blind and low-vision users; accessibility teams
- Methods
- user testing; accessibility feedback; iterative releases
- AI lifecycle stages
- problem formulation; design; evaluation; deployment
- Evidence summary
- Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world for blind and low vision people right from your mobile device. It supports individuals with a variety of daily tasks such as reading mail, identifying everyday products, hearing descriptions of photos, and much more.
- Atlas assessment
- Cautious · Medium confidence · evidence grade A
- Uncertainty
- Public documentation suggests meaningful participation, but publicly accessible detail on stakeholder power is limited.
- Participation group
- Co Design
- Technology description
- computer vision
- Funding
- Not documented
- Region of activity
- national
- Verification status
- Live Verified
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