Sound you've never heard —
felt for the first time.
We build software and hardware that translates the emotional world of sound into touch — purpose-built with deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, and deafblind communities.
A daughter, her mom,
and the waves
Our founder took her mother — who is deafblind — to the beach. Her mother couldn't hear the waves. She couldn't see them. But she could feel them.
That moment became a company. What if sound could be translated into touch? What if a deaf child could feel music? What if a deafblind person could feel when someone calls their name?
Our founder is hard of hearing and visually impaired. She doesn't build for this community from the outside — she understands it from within. That's not a talking point. That's our foundation.
Why do disabled communities have to adapt to the world —
when the world won't adapt to them?
We understand the user
Our founder is hard of hearing and visually impaired. Her mother is deafblind. AccessWave was born from real lived experience — not market research. That is a moat no one can replicate.
The technology exists
Haptics, wearables, spatial audio — the building blocks have been here for years. They just weren't assembled with these communities in the room.
Massively underserved
Fewer than 5% of digital products meet baseline accessibility standards. The market is enormous and the gap is structural — not accidental.
Regulatory tailwinds
ADA compliance mandates are tightening across enterprise, education, and media. Accessibility is no longer optional — it's infrastructure.
The AccessWave wristband —
sound you can feel
A wearable that converts audio into nuanced haptic sensation. Not just vibration — emotion. The swell of a symphony. The drop in a beat. The tension before a scene breaks. The moment someone calls your name. For the first time, these experiences belong to everyone.
Feel music
Rhythm, melody, and emotion translated to touch. A deaf teenager experiencing a concert for the first time.
Feel streaming
Ocean waves, thunder, the tension before a scene breaks. The full sensory world of film and TV.
Hear your name
A distinct haptic pattern when someone calls you — so a deafblind person always knows they're being spoken to.
Stay safe
Alarms, sirens, door knocks, and alerts — all felt. Safety and independence, without compromise.
Our mission is to remove barriers within the deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, and deafblind communities — through hardware and software solutions built from the ground up for the people who need them.
This is not a feature. This is not an add-on. AccessWave is accessibility infrastructure — the foundation layer that the next generation of assistive technology will be built on.
Builders who understand
the problem.
Led by a founder with lived experience — alongside engineers, builders, and business partners united by one mission: build the accessible world that should have existed all along.
Accessibility Statement
At AccessWave Technologies, accessibility isn’t an afterthought. It’s the reason we exist. We work closely with the blind, low-vision, deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind communities to build products that work with the assistive technology people already use, not around it.
We don’t just plan to meet WCAG standards. We plan to exceed them. Here’s what that looks like in practice:
Compatible with assistive tech.
Our website and products are built to work smoothly with screen readers and other assistive tools people rely on every day.
Image descriptions.
Every image includes a detailed, accurate description, not just a quick label, so nothing important gets left out.
Adjustable font size.
Text can be resized to fit what’s comfortable for you.
Ongoing testing with real users.
We don’t just guess at what works. We test with people from the communities we’re building for.
We’re aiming for our website to be fully accessible, and we know that’s an ongoing process, not a one-time fix. If something doesn’t work the way it should, or you’ve got feedback on how we can do better, we want to hear it.
Contact us: team@accesswavetech.com
Have a question?
We'd love to hear from you.
Whether you're a community member, investor, researcher, or just curious — reach out and we'll get back to you.
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