ReBokeh Wins 2026 Zero Project Award for Accessibility

The Baltimore-based company was one of just eight solutions from the United States chosen for the 2026 Awards.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Dec. 3, 2025 - Baltimore-based ReBokeh Vision Technologies has been selected as an Awardee for the Zero Project Awards 2026. The Zero Project Awards honor companies and solutions from around the globe that are making an impact in the field of accessibility, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). ReBokeh was one of just eight American companies and/or solutions selected for the award. 

The Zero Project Awards, organized by The Essl Foundation in Austria, are part of an initiative committed to the global implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This year’s awards focus on accessibility, ICT, and crisis response across civil society, the public sector, the business sector, and the interdisciplinary ICT sector.

In total, 75 solutions from 51 countries around the globe have been selected 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. 18th, 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.”

In alignment with Article 9 of the CRPD, accessibility is the precondition for persons with disabilities to live independently, participate fully and equally in society, and have unrestricted enjoyment of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with others. The Awards seek to elevate the wide variety of scalable solutions designed to remove barriers for persons with disabilities.

Low vision is one of today's most overlooked accessibility challenges. In the United States, more than 25 million people live with low vision, and over 250 million people are affected globally – numbers that continue to grow as populations age. This award is affirmation of ReBokeh’s work and impact addressing the needs of this growing population. 

The Zero Project’s research and selection processes were guided by three main criteria: innovation, impact, and scalability. With its vast global and cross-sectoral network, the Zero Project organized an extensive multi-step nomination, evaluation, and selection process, which culminated in today’s announcement of the annual Awardees. The selection process amounted to more than 350 hours of review, and the involvement of more than 400 experts with and without disabilities from around the 

World.

Find the full list of Awardees on zeroproject.org/awards-2026. 

About ReBokeh Ⓡ Vision Technologies

Founded in 2019, ReBokeh is on a mission to provide millions of low vision individuals with assistive tech that’s reflective of their needs. ReBokeh’s flagship product, the ReBokeh mobile app, enables users to adjust the appearance of the world around them in order to help them navigate their specific visual condition. This approach empowers low vision individuals to make use of their functional vision, rather than trying to replace it with tactile or audio descriptions.

For more information, visit: https://rebokeh.com/

About the Essl Foundation

The Essl Foundation MGE gemeinnützige Privatstiftung is an Austrian Foundation established in 2007 by Martin and Gerda Essl, and their children, for social purposes and scientific research. Its mission is to support social innovation, social entrepreneurship and persons with disabilities.

About the Zero Project

The Zero Project's mission is working for a world with zero barriers. Worldwide, the Zero Project finds and shares solutions that improve the daily lives and legal rights of all persons with disabilities, as intended and encouraged by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.