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About Able Eyes

Making every space visible and welcoming.

Our mission

Confidence, dignity, and belonging before you ever arrive.

For many people, visiting an unfamiliar place creates anxiety and uncertainty. Disability, sensory needs, mobility challenges, and the fear of the unknown can keep individuals and families from fully participating in everyday life.

Able Eyes removes those invisible barriers. By helping people understand spaces before they arrive, we empower confidence, dignity, independence, and belonging, for individuals, families, caregivers, and the communities that welcome them.

Founded in 2017, Able Eyes creates inclusive 360° virtual tours for businesses, healthcare facilities, tourism destinations, universities, parks, and government agencies. Our partners fund the tours, and every tour is free to explore for visitors. With 400+ tours and more than 5 million views across partners like Michigan DNR, Pure Michigan, Corewell Health, and Michigan State University, we help people arrive feeling prepared, confident, and welcome.

Today, a tour does even more. It puts a space on Google Maps, in AI search, and on websites, visitor bureau listings, and member directories, where people decide where to go. That means more visitors, more bookings, and more people walking in ready.

We work with partners across healthcare, education, government, hospitality, employment, tourism, and community services to make their spaces visible, navigable, and welcoming for everyone.

By the numbers

Why this matters.

70M+US adults live with a disability

44%of adults 65 and older have a disability

$675BUS disability consumer market

5M+Able Eyes tour views

Sources: CDC, 2024. Disability:IN and American Institutes for Research, 2026.

Voices

From the people we serve.

"Our class went on a field trip this week and beforehand we were able to look around the park using your site. The kids loved it! Thanks for all you do!"

Classroom Teacher

Mason Public Schools

"Able Eyes gave us the ability to show prospective clients a comprehensive look at our venue which came in handy during the pandemic and continues to benefit us."

Tony Laub

Able Eyes Client

"I found the 360 tours helpful. They allow me to see how accessible a location is before I get there. Keep going, we need more locations."

Joe Rezmer

Able Eyes User

Behind the lens

Moments from the journey.

The Able Eyes team standing together in front of a wall of decorative metal gears.
The Able Eyes team with JAMA and the Shop Rat Foundation in Jackson, MI
Founder holding a 360 camera while capturing a virtual tour outdoors.
Capturing an Able Eyes virtual tour in the field
Two people together at a Lake Michigan sunset in Ludington.
On location filming in Ludington, Michigan
Our story

Built in Michigan, serving communities nationwide.

Able Eyes was founded to close a simple but powerful gap: people deserve to know what a space is like before they walk in. Born in Michigan and trusted by partners like Michigan DNR, Pure Michigan, Corewell Health, Michigan State University, and many more, we've grown into a network of hundreds of virtual tours serving millions of visitors, and the businesses and communities that welcome them.

Our team works alongside the disability community, caregivers, educators, healthcare providers, and public agencies to design experiences that reflect what real people need to feel genuinely welcome.

Meegan Winters, Founder of Able Eyes
Meegan Winters, Founder of Able Eyes

Able Eyes began with a simple but powerful question: What if people could explore a space before they had to physically visit it?

For founder Meegan Winters, the idea came from both professional and personal experience. As a former special education teacher and assistant principal, Meegan saw how unfamiliar environments could create anxiety and hesitation for students with autism and other disabilities. She also saw this need through her close friendship with Jessica, her college roommate and best friend, who had Muscular Dystrophy and used a power wheelchair.

After Jessica passed away in 2015, Meegan was inspired to pursue the idea she had carried for years: creating a tool that would help people with physical and invisible disabilities access more information before entering new spaces. In 2017, she left her career in education and launched Able Eyes.

At its heart, Able Eyes exists because accessibility is more than getting through the door. It is about confidence, comfort, dignity, and belonging. Our mission is to help create communities where everyone has the information they need to participate more fully.

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See it first. Go with confidence.

Hi, I'm Iris! Tell me what you're looking for: a place to preview (like "Park Library" or "a dentist office"), a specific city (like "Lansing, MI" or "Petoskey, MI"), or a how-to video (like "tying shoes" or "self-checkout"), and I'll find it for you.

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