AccessCat Network

The Accessibility Innovation Network of Catalonia is a knowledge transfer network. We want to offer solutions to a diverse society where everyone should have access to information and communication

Come visit us at Smart City November 3 and 4

The AccessCat Network returns to the Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 with five research groups: DiCode, TALN, TIS, TraDiLex, and TransMedia Catalonia. Come learn about their research on communicative accessibility in smart cities.

A wide, overhead view of a Smart City exhibition hall, with brightly colored booth areas in yellow, orange, green, and blue, and many attendees walking between technology company stands.

Discover everything AccessCat has to offer: accessibility services, technologies and resources

Usability testing labs for your products, advice to ensure your events are accessible, consultancy to identify accessibility issues on your website, training to remove communication barriers on your social media channels, and much more in our catalogue. 

And yes, everything featured in the catalogue has been developed by research groups and is based on their scientific and research results.

Explore the AccessCat Network’s free online training capsules

Do you want to learn how to subtitle videos? What is audio description? How can you self-evaluate your website to ensure it does not present access barriers? We teach you in AccessCat Training Capsules, short training sessions promoted by the network and its researchers, designed to share basic concepts about accessibility in various fields, such as culture or technology. And all in just 15 minutes.

Cover of AccessCat Training Capsules, with the title and logo in white on a blue background

These are the 22 research groups in the AccessCat Network

The main goal of the research carried out by the research groups of the AccessCat Network is to provide accessibility solutions for a diverse society that must be inclusive and universal.

Who are they? What do they do? What technologies, services, and educational resources do they offer? Learn more.

Cardboard cubes with the logos of the research groups of the Network decorate the CCCB at the AccessCat Innovation Day.

Meet the affiliated entities that support the AccessCat Network

AccessCat serves as a bridge between research and industry. That is what motivated dozens of entities to become affiliated: to be part of a community that connects researchers, institutions, experts, companies, and entities linked to the accessibility sector.

Would you like to know more about the 80 affiliated entities that, through their work, manage to sow seeds in favour of accessibility in society? Check our index.

Network Researcher: We fund your activities

The new funding calls from the AccessCat Network are open. These calls aim to support actions in the field of accessibility to communication and information. They are divided into three categories: Awareness-Raising, Dissemination and Engagement Activities, Standardisation Activities, and International Activities.

Next submission deadline: November 10th.