What is the name of your organization?
Global Network of Young People with Disabilities (GNYPWD)
What is the name of your solution?
NClude Career Access
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Inclusive AI platform enabling career discovery, adaptive learning, and independent job applications for people with disabilities
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
bellevue, WA
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
United States
What type of organization is your solution team?
Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
People with disabilities face systemic barriers across the career pipeline-from discovering potential roles to completing online job applications. Over 96% of websites remain inaccessible to assistive technologies, and career information is often presented in ways that ignore disability experiences or inclusive pedagogy.
As a result, talented individuals are excluded from both learning and work opportunities. In the U.S., adults with disabilities are half as likely to be employed in STEM and technical fields compared to their nondisabled peers (NSF, 2023). Globally, 200 million youth with disabilities lack equitable access to career information or training.
Existing solutions focus on job posting visibility, not accessibility or lived experience. They rarely account for how a blind student might navigate a coding bootcamp, or how a neurodiverse learner might explore design careers through adaptive tutoring.
GNYPWD’s NClude Career Access addresses this inequity by building an end-to-end, accessible system for career discovery, learning, and action where every learner can explore careers, acquire job-ready skills through inclusive learning, and apply for opportunities independently.
What is your solution?
NClude Career Access is an AI-powered multimodal platform helping learners with disabilities discover, learn, and act on career opportunities independently.
The platform integrates three components:
1. Career Discovery Module-An AI coach that uses narratives from professionals with disabilities to help users explore STEAM and other fields, matching interests, accessibility preferences, and required skills. This integrates with job taxonomies, labor market data and disability-specific consideration.
2. ITutor Adaptive Learning System-An inclusive learning companion that teaches employability and technical skills using adaptive pedagogy. It simplifies concepts into accessible formats—audio, plain text, and visual contrast—while adjusting pacing and feedback for each learner.
3. Accessible Task Completion Agent-A voice- and text-based automation layer that enables users to complete inaccessible digital tasks—such as filling job applications, uploading resumes, or signing up for training—independently.
Accessible via WhatsApp, IVR, and web, the system combines generative AI, speech technology, and human-centered design to ensure usability for blind, low-vision, mobility-impaired, and neurodiverse users. NClude doesn’t stop at accessibility, but creates pathways to real employment by merging discovery, learning, and application into one inclusive pipeline.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
NClude serves learners and jobseekers with disabilities, including blind, low-vision, mobility-impaired, and neurodiverse individuals—especially those excluded from mainstream career and technical training systems.
For learners, the Career Discovery module replaces inaccessible job boards with real, relatable experiences. Users can hear directly from engineers, designers, and scientists with disabilities about how they entered and thrive in STEAM and other careers. This builds self-efficacy and aspiration.
Through ITutor, they gain adaptive, inclusive learning experiences that adjust to their pace, literacy level, and assistive technology. Lessons in communication, digital literacy, and coding become accessible to everyone, regardless of disability or connectivity.
Finally, the Task Completion Agent transforms access into action—allowing users to independently apply for jobs, internships, or training programs without needing sighted or technical assistance.
Through our deployments with Washington state’s vocational rehabilitation, and based on feedback from over 25,000 individual users, learners identify new career interests, learn resume-building skills, and submit job applications independently. The result: greater independence, employability, and confidence to navigate the workforce.
