Accessibility is about far more than wheelchair ramps or live captioning. The field has emerged as a bustling innovation hub, an educational imperative and—unapologetically—an untapped business opportunity.
Forbes’ first-ever Accessibility 100 highlights the 100 biggest innovators and impact-makers in the field of accessibility for people with disabilities. Some, like Apple and Google, make ubiquitous devices that introduce new and vital accessibility features year after year.
Others are less visible companies and individuals whose work and innovations are revolutionizing how people with wide ranges of disabilities can communicate, learn, travel and enjoy lives as full as anyone else’s. Often, these inventions affect people beyond those with disabilities: if you’ve ever rolled a stroller over a sloped curb, watched closed captions or used an electric toothbrush, you can thank disability R&D.
Check out our 2025
#ForbesAccessibility100 list at the link in our bio.