Baltimore-based ReBokeh Vision Technologies has been selected as an awardee for the Zero Project Awards 2026. ReBokeh was one of only eight American companies selected for the award.
The Zero Project Awards honor companies and solutions from around the world making an impact in the field of accessibility, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Organized by The Essl Foundation in Austria, the awards are part of an effort to implement the goals of the convention. This year’s awards focus on accessibility, information and communications technology (ICT), and crisis response across multiple sectors of society: civil society, the public sector, the business sector, and the interdisciplinary ICT sector.
In all, 75 solutions from 51 countries around the world have been chosen out of an unprecedented 586 nominations from 93 countries. ReBokeh and its fellow awardees will be honored at the 2026 Zero Project Conference in Vienna, Austria, which begins on Feb. 18, 2026.
“Being recognized by the Zero Project is a tremendous honor for ReBokeh and a powerful affirmation of the global impact our technology delivers every day for people with low vision,” said Rebecca Rosenberg, the low-vision founder and CEO of ReBokeh. “To be honored alongside innovators from every corner of the world reinforces both the significance of this work and the urgent need to better serve the vast, yet long-overlooked low vision community.”
Article 9 of the convention affirms that accessibility is a prerequisite for people with disabilities to live independently and fully. To participate equally in society, they must be able to have unrestricted enjoyment of their human rights and freedoms on an equal basis with others. The awards elevate the best, most creative, and scalable solutions that remove barriers for people with disabilities.
ReBokeh helps remove barriers for people with low vision – one of today’s most overlooked accessibility challenges. In the United States, more than 25 million people have low vision, and over 250 million people are impacted globally. Those numbers increase as the population ages. This award affirms the impact of ReBokeh’s work.
ReBokeh Vision Technologies was founded in 2019 to provide people with low vision with assistive tech that adjusts to their needs. The company’s flagship product, the ReBokeh mobile app, allows users to adjust the appearance of the world around them to help them navigate according to their specific visual condition. This way, they can use their functional vision, rather than trying to replace it with tactile or audio descriptions.
In addition to the app being available for free to individuals on their iPhones (Android users will need to join a waitlist), the technology has been implemented by institutions like the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Antonio African American Museum, Towson University, and more.
The Zero Project used three main criteria to select awardees: innovation, impact, and scalability. Determining the winners involved an extensive multi-step nomination, evaluation, and selection process. More than 400 experts from around the world – with and without disabilities – devoted more than 350 hours of review to choosing the 75 awardees.
The full list of awardees is available on Zero Project’s website.
