Founder & President

A11yLab: The Beijing Academy Student Accessibility Initiative

900+ community members—with or without disabilities—have benefitted from A11yLab's programs dedicated to making accessibility understood and lived.

A volunteer guides a student experiencing the use of a white cane while blindfolded.

Love Without Barriers

A11yLab: The Beijing Academy Student Accessibility Initiative dedicates itself to making accessibility understood and realized.

We do this through awareness campaigns, volunteer service, student-built assistive technology, and collaborations with NGOs, higher-education institutions, and accessibility practitioners.

A11yLab's White Cane Experience brings students a glimpse of accessibility through an engaging, scalable hands-on experience.

At its debut, more than 120 participants joined in just 1.5 hours, gaining a initial understanding of how impairments interact with inaccessible environments to create disability.

Students gather outdoors beside a Disability Impairment Accessibility event poster, with one student holding a white cane as others prepare for the activity.

A blindfolded student walks across the school courtyard using a white cane while another student accompanies them and classmates watch nearby.

A blindfolded student practices navigating with a white cane across an open paved area while another student walks alongside.

A blindfolded adult participant walks with a white cane during the accessibility activity, accompanied by a student as several adults observe in the background.

23: 23 volunteers, including a 5-member core team, are at the heart of all that we do at A11yLab.
120+: Our debut event, the White Cane Experience, has received 122 participants over 1.5 hours of activities.
460+: 463 leaflets helped community members understand accessibility basics and how they can contribute.
700+: A11yLab produces Orinav, a navigation app used by 700+ active users across 5 countries to explore the world safely and independently.

A11yLab's signature educational leaflet, "Disability, Impairment, Accessibility," is your first introduction to the world of accessibility.

Designed in collaboration with the Tsinghua University Institute for Accessibility Development, the leaflet has been distributed to over 460 community members in a single day.

A close-up of a stack of leaflets with the title "Disability, Impairment, Accessibility."

Over the past July, A11yLab launched a collaboration with Hequn Public Welfare—a registered Chinese disability charity with 5,000+ volunteers—to promote disability inclusion through a museum group visit.

A group walks along a tree-lined path, led by a man wearing sunglasses and using a white cane, with several companions walking beside and behind him.

A man using a white cane stands with a group beside a city street as several companions raise their hands and gesture toward something ahead.

Three people sit together indoors, smiling for the camera; Lin in the center raises a peace sign while the man on the left has a visual impairment.

A large group of adults and students poses for a group photo inside the China Scientists Museum beneath the Pillars of the Republic exhibition display.

Special thanks to our 23 volunteers, 5 faculty coordinators, Hequn Public Welfare, and Tsinghua ADI — A11yLab wouldn’t have been possible without your support.

A group photo of A11yLab volunteers, posing around the White Cane Experience stand-up poster.