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Ability Bazaar
Talent with disabilities. Apps without barriers.
A disability-led marketplace where people with disabilities build accessible AI apps and deliver expert accessibility services - for individuals, institutions and employers worldwide.
Owned and operated by Vision-Aid, Inc., a United States 501(c)(3) public charity. Ability Bazaar advances Vision-Aid's charitable mission by creating technology training, livelihood opportunities and accessible tools with people with disabilities. Nonprofit ownership and mission.
New additions to Ability Bazaar
Free tools to prepare for work and thrive at work
Built by visually impaired people, for visually impaired people. These free Ability Bazaar offerings draw on lived experience and are available to anyone who could benefit.
Free Windows app and live web demo
Saarthi: Your Guide to Accessible Meetings
Understand what is said and shown in meetings with short spoken answers. Stay engaged in the conversation and revisit saved meetings in the Windows app.
Explore SaarthiGlobal recognition
Ability Bazaar wins $50,000 in the Build with Gemini XPRIZE
From more than 26,000 builders worldwide, Ability Bazaar was named one of 15 $50,000 Runner-Up award recipients. This recognition supports our work to create accessible technology and paid digital opportunities for people with disabilities.
Read the announcement about Ability Bazaar's Build with Gemini XPRIZE Runner-Up award
Take a look
A quick tour of Ability Bazaar
See how AI agents run the marketplace - and how talent with disabilities delivers the work.
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Getting started
How to use Ability Bazaar
Two ways in. Follow whichever one you came for - each step is a link to the page that does it.
For organisations, employers and institutions
If you need a site tested, fixed or built
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Screen a page free
Run our ABLE engine on one page and see the WCAG 2.2 issues in a few minutes. No sign-up, no card.
Run a free screening -
Pick what you need
The $199 offer scans up to 200 public pages, validates up to 20 priority findings and adds focused checks on 3 key pages, with delivery within three business days. $500 and $1,000 launch packages cover accessible websites, web apps, mobile-friendly apps and AI prototypes with bounded support and one year of hosting.
See the services -
Agents do the groundwork
Intake and scoping structure your request; ABLE crawls the pages; the drafting agent writes the report. Every action is logged.
Meet the agents -
Add detailed human testing when you need it
For an additional cost, a custom scan can add a comprehensive manual review and assistive-technology testing by an expert with a disability. Use the contact form for a custom quote.
Request a custom quote
For creators with disabilities and the teams they lead
If you want to build accessible apps
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Register as a creator
Tell us your email and whether you have a disability or lead a team that includes people who do. That unlocks the App Builder Agent straight away.
Apply as a creator -
Describe the app in plain language
No code. The planning agent drafts the workflow and the builder agent writes a working, accessible prototype.
Open the AI Studio -
Use it here, on the page
Your app runs in the browser immediately - try it with your keyboard and your screen reader, because that is exactly how it will be reviewed.
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A tester validates it, then it is yours
A paid tester with lived experience checks it with real assistive technology. Pass, and the download link is emailed to you. AI never publishes.
How the creator programme works
Not sure which fits? Tell us what you need and a person will reply.
One platform. Two proven engines.
Ability Bazaar is a new platform with more than two decades of Vision-Aid experience behind it. Vision-Aid's deep knowledge of visual disability, trusted community relationships and vast network across the United States and India give the platform a proven foundation from which to scale quickly.
Apps
Custom apps, built by talent with disabilities
PwD-led teams design, build and deliver custom web, mobile and AI applications for any business need - accessible by default, because accessibility expertise is on the team, not bolted on. The catalogue already includes the voice-first SEP AI Tutor, with Arohi and Nidra close behind.
See the app catalogue of accessible AI appsServices
Accessibility services with a track record
Choose a $199 automated scan of up to 200 public pages, or make PDF, Word and PowerPoint files accessible with fixed packages from $199. Blind or low-vision professionals add focused expert review or screen-reader validation. For a comprehensive manual audit, VPAT/ACR or assistive-technology testing, request a custom quote.
See the services offered by DATTCThe flywheel
Every user can become a requester. Every request can become an app. Every app creates income for its creators.
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Use
PwD users access trusted mini-apps through one predictable, accessible shell.
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Request
Users describe unmet needs from lived experience.
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AI-build
PwD-led teams use AI App Builder Agents to create new tools.
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Earn & scale
Validated tools reach users; creators build portfolios and income.
Follow one order through the bazaar
What actually happens when you buy - the full lifecycle of a transaction, and where the Google pieces plug in at every step.
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You choose the service
Buy the $199 automated scan of up to 200 public pages with a focused blind/low-vision expert review, choose a $500 or $1,000 website or app launch package, or request a custom quote for deeper work.
Runs on Google Cloud Run · payment via PayPal/Stripe
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Intake & scoping
The Intake and Scoping agents structure your request and confirm scope and price.
Gemini agents · every decision logged
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ABLE scans your site
Our ABLE engine crawls the pages in scope and runs automated WCAG 2.2 checks.
axe-core on Cloud Run · triaged by Gemini
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Report prepared
The Report Drafting agent turns raw findings into a clear, prioritised report draft.
Gemini agents · evidence retained for expert review
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Expert review
For the $199 scan, a blind or low-vision expert validates up to 20 highest-impact distinct findings and performs focused checks on 3 key public pages. Custom engagements can add comprehensive manual and assistive-technology testing.
Bounded lived-experience review · deeper custom options
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Delivery & follow-up
You get the deliverable included in your order; invoicing and follow-up run automatically.
Gemini agents · evidence stored in Firestore
You meet our agents at the front door - the intake and scoping agents process every request you send, and you can try them live in the AI Studio. The rest work behind the scenes; every action they take is logged and auditable.
Live proof, honestly counted
Gemini Impact Agent Public marketplace launched: Updated as of:
Every order can turn demand into opportunity.
Confirmed payments show market demand, and a separately counted qualified pipeline shows where growth can come from next.
Commercial proof since the July 5, 2026 launch
- Paid orders accepted for fulfillment
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- Distinct paying customers
- 8
- Student training places funded
- 19
- Paid service orders accepted
- 7
9 paid transactions came from 8 distinct paying customers because one customer placed two orders.
AI-native delivery and growth
- Completed Gemini-powered agent actions
- 197
- Eligible disability-led creators registered
- 5
- Human page visits logged since launch
- 18,313
- Qualified opportunities in the pipeline
- 5
How these figures are counted
- The public marketplace launch date comes from the first successful Cloud Run revision with public access enabled.
- Confirmed figures include only paid orders accepted for fulfillment; unfinished checkout attempts are excluded.
- Transaction and payer counts can differ when one customer places more than one paid order.
- Pipeline counts open check-payment orders and active planned quotes without publishing their dollar value.
- Page visits are privacy-preserving aggregate human page views, not unique people.
In the catalogue today
Working prototype
Maya — Ability Fellows Interview Coach
Meet Maya: cheerful, voice-first interview practice.
A voice-first, browser-based interview practice coach for Vision-Aid Ability Fellows. Choose digital accessibility testing, full-stack development, or digital marketing; answer a question; and receive focused practice feedback.
Live - anchor app
SEP AI Tutor
Speak English with confidence.
A voice-first AI tutor for spoken-English practice, designed with and for visually impaired learners in Vision-Aid's Spoken English Program. Conversational coaching with support for more than 12 Indian coaching languages.
Pilot in scoping
Arohi
Our next institutional app.
Built by the Vision-Aid AI Development Center, with the American India Foundation (AIF) as a prospective first institutional customer. Pilot scoping is underway.
Why this wins
App stores exist. AI builders exist. None of them are disability-led - and that changes everything.
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Disability-led creation
Real needs come from lived experience; PwD creators and testers shape what gets built and share in the economic value.
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One predictable accessible shell
No one should learn a new interface for every app. Voice-first, screen-reader-friendly interaction is built into the platform.
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Problem-led catalogue growth
Users submit unmet needs; AI groups recurring requests; creator teams respond with reusable solutions.
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AI-assisted creation
The App Builder Agent converts a plain-language problem into a draft workflow, prompts, outputs, guardrails and listing.
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Trust and curation
PwD testers validate usefulness, accessibility and safety before publication. The open marketplace follows only after standards are proven.
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A real creator economy
Creators earn from commissions, sponsored challenges, enterprise builds and professional portfolios.
A mission-driven social enterprise, from day one.
Ability Bazaar is a Vision-Aid program with real customers and AI-native operations. Its mission-related earned revenue helps sustain the platform, train talent with disabilities and create paid work for testers and creators while delivering useful, accessible tools to the community.
Customer experience
What a customer says
“Ability Bazaar’s custom accessibility scan was eye-opening. It uncovered several important issues we had never recognized and gave us clear, practical insights to improve. I’m grateful for the experience and impressed by the value it delivered.”