Hackathon Projects

Innovative accessibility solutions built for the Vision-Aid Hack for Inclusion 2026

Remote Element Marker

Team 2 · Vision-Aid HFI 2026
Live

Remote Element Marker is an NVDA add-on that lets visually impaired users assign friendly names and custom keyboard shortcuts to any UI element for faster, independent navigation. Elements can be marked using NVDA object navigation or by capturing the element under a sighted helper's mouse pointer — making it ideal for remote support sessions via Teams or TeamViewer.

NVDA Accessibility Keyboard Navigation

Indian Sarvam AI TTS

Team 3 · Vision-Aid HFI 2026
Live

Sarvam AI TTS Add-on for NVDA integrates Sarvam AI's streaming Text-to-Speech into the NVDA screen reader with a focus on Indian language users. It supports 11 Indian languages and 6 Indic voices using the Bulbul v3 model, with real-time translation and automatic language detection.

NVDA TTS Indian Languages Translation
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Chalkboard

Team 4 · Vision-Aid HFI 2026
Live

Chalkboard is an open-source OCR and vision intelligence platform built for blind and low-vision users. It combines offline engines (Tesseract) with AI vision models (Gemini, GPT-4o, Claude, and more). Features include AI Refine for structured HTML output, Smart Compare for detecting screen changes, and a natural language query workspace.

OCR Vision AI Accessibility Screen Reader

AI Vision Assistant

Team 6 · Vision-Aid HFI 2026
Live

AI Vision Assistant is an NVDA add-on that uses AI to help blind users interact with inaccessible UI elements. When standard accessibility APIs fail, pressing NVDA + Shift + U captures the active window, sends it to an AI provider, and returns a spoken list of clickable elements to navigate and activate.

NVDA AI Vision UI Mode Accessibility

Keyboard Drag and Drop

Team 8 · Vision-Aid HFI 2026
Live

Keyboard Drag and Drop is an NVDA add-on (v1.0.0, compatible with NVDA 2024.1+) that enables keyboard-only users to perform drag-and-drop operations without a mouse. It simulates hardware-level mouse movements using physical screen coordinates, ensuring compatibility with Windows Explorer and complex UIs.

NVDA Drag and Drop Keyboard Navigation