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Fable adds cognitive and hearing impairments to its accessibility tools with $25M round
- Fable has raised $25 million to expand its digital platforms that help companies build more accessible products to those who are disabled.
- Fable, based in Toronto, started in 2020 as a way to consult with accessibility experts and impaired individuals.
- The company’s growth plans include expanding the support it offers outside of vision and motor disabilities to include those with cognitive and hearing impairments.
- Fable has built tools that allow product managers and developers to track accessibility milestones alongside traditional quality metrics.
- Fable will also offer advisory services on data preparation for AI models, especially as they relate to accessibility for those with disabilities.
- The new funding round was led by Five Elms Capital and will be used to expand the teams and products aiming at cognitive and hearing impairments on Fable's digital platform, as well as the AI expertise.
- Fable is aiming to improve the data and training samples used in AI models, so bias can be eliminated from them.
- Fable is working with researchers, governments, and the community to have access to resources and best practices.
- Fable will not do the work of accessibility for any company but its platform provides testing for accessibility in AI and digital products.
- Fable now provides a dashboard where monitoring of accessibility metrics for all digital properties and products happens.
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