We created Morf after seeing firsthand how difficult it is for organizations to provide accessible content at scale. From educational materials and government forms to STEM content and complex diagrams, accessibility remains one of the most persistent barriers to information access.
Today, Morf helps organizations streamline content accessibility workflows and expand access to information for everyone.
Morf helps organizations build accessibility into the content lifecycle — so equal access reaches classrooms, workplaces, and public services at scale.
Our work is guided by international accessibility standards and the conviction that equitable access to information is a fundamental right, not a product feature.
Access to information should not depend on how content was originally created.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes that equal access to information is a human right regardless of format or medium.
Automation should reduce repetitive work while empowering human expertise.
WCAG provides the shared technical foundation for accessible content. Morf uses automation to accelerate conformance, not replace practitioner judgment.
STEM content, diagrams, charts, and technical materials should be accessible to everyone.
Article 21 of the UN CRPD affirms the right to seek, receive, and impart information through accessible formats including digital media, books, and educational materials.
Organizations need sustainable accessibility workflows, not one-time fixes.
Lasting programs require embedded policies, repeatable workflows, and organizational planning, not reactive transformation alone.
From a UMaine research project focused on graphical access to an AI-powered accessibility platform, built across sixteen years of lived experience, research, and innovation.
What started as an academic project focused on graphical elements evolved into a mission to make information accessible for people with visual impairments.
In 2010, Saranya, the wife of UNAR CEO Hari Palani, pursued her Master's degree at the University of Maine under the mentorship of Dr. Nick Giudice. At their first meeting, she was surprised to discover that Nick was visually impaired when he arrived with his guide dog, Uro. The encounter stayed with Hari, then a software engineer, who grew curious about the tools Nick used to overcome blindness and navigate a world built for sight.
Nick's remarkable journey left a deep impression on Hari. In 2011, Hari left his job to join Nick at UMaine as a graduate student in assistive technologies. That same year, touchscreen devices were everywhere. One of Nick's graduate students, Monoj Raja, was studying how vibration on those screens might convey indoor maps to blind users. With that work as inspiration, Nick and Hari began exploring how the touch and audio capabilities of commercial smartphones and tablets could be leveraged to provide non-visual access to all visual graphical information, not only maps but the diagrams, charts, and graphics that carry so much of what we need to know.
Midlina brought maps to life through touch and sound on touchscreen devices, then user research revealed how much broader the accessibility challenge really was.
From 2012 to 2018, the team focused on making map information accessible to blind and visually impaired users. They developed Midlina, a framework that dynamically converts graphical media on touchscreen devices into accessible multisensory rendering. After building a beta app to demonstrate Midlina's usability, they came to an important realization: the core problem facing the BVI community extended well beyond maps alone.
As part of the NSF I-Corps program, the team conducted more than 200 user interviews from 2019 to 2020 to understand the ecosystem, existing solutions, and persistent gaps. What they heard echoed the same barriers again and again: high cost, limited portability, incomplete or incorrect descriptions, no real-time results, and the human effort required to author and convert graphics. For blind and visually impaired students, that meant missing key content in the materials everyone else took for granted.
CeCe proved that end-to-end accessibility was possible for complex papers, and large language models opened the door to Morf.
In 2021, we concluded that an end-to-end accessibility solution was necessary to fill the gap in math and graphics accessibility. Empowered by advances in computer vision and deep learning, we began prototyping CeCe, an end-to-end solution for making SAT papers accessible. We fully automated the process of identifying, extracting, processing, and converting different content types, from graphics and math to text, and used Midlina to deliver the finished paper to a mobile app.
Then came ChatGPT. It disrupted how we interacted with computer systems and showed the unprecedented power of large language models in understanding context, which revolutionized information extraction from documents. Since 2022, we have experimented with large vision-language models and significantly improved our math and graphics conversion engines, paving the way for Morf, our AI-enabled end-to-end accessibility solution for K-12 curriculum.
Research pipelines became a production platform — designed for real accessibility workflows at institutional scale.
Morf helps organizations transform inaccessible content while keeping accessibility review and quality assurance at the center. From PDFs and scanned content to equations, charts, tables, and diagrams, teams produce accessible HTML, tagged content, Braille, and tactile graphics for education, government, publishing, and large content collections.
Production transformation pipelines move from research into engineering.
MorfDocs is launched with Braille workflows, STEM accessibility, and MathML support.
MorfDocs partnered with institutions to build accessibility workflows to support students and faculty.
MorfAlign is launched as a unified content accessibility platform for institutions to govern their accessibility program at scale.
Over the years, we worked alongside educators, accessibility professionals, and assistive technology users who faced the same challenge:
Important information existed, but access did not.
The issue was not a lack of intent. It was a lack of scalable tools and workflows. Organizations needed a better way to make accessibility part of everyday operations.
Our team brings deep experience across WCAG conformance, PDF/UA transformation, STEM accessibility, Braille production, and assistive technology validation — informed by sixteen years of research and practitioner-led QA.
Transformation aligned to W3C WAI guidelines, ISO 14289 (PDF/UA), and federal accessibility requirements.
Proper heading hierarchy, table headers, list markup, and artifact removal for assistive technology navigation.
Conversion of complex math, chemistry notation, and STEM figures into formats screen readers can interpret.
Born-accessible and remediated Braille workflows for education, publishing, and alternate format production.
Multi-format delivery from a single source content asset — web, e-book, and transformed Office experiences.
Human review by accessibility specialists combined with testing against real screen reader and AT user workflows.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Assistive Technology, Spatial Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, AI-driven Accessibility
He earned his Ph.D. in Spatial Informatics from the University of Maine and has more than 15 years of experience spanning research, product development, and accessibility innovation. He has led or contributed to roughly $6 million in competitive grants and research support, published widely in accessible technology and nonvisual information access, mentored students and early-career researchers, and served as a reviewer for leading journals, conferences, and federal funding programs. He focuses on designing and deploying systems that make content, graphics, data, and digital media more accessible and usable.
“Every inaccessible experience is a missed opportunity for someone to learn, work, connect, or contribute. Accessibility is how we make sure everyone gets a seat at the table.”
Co-Founder & Chief Research Officer
Accessible Multisensory Technology, Improving Information Access for Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) People
He has published over 150 scientific papers in these areas, collaborated on over $20 million in research grants, has advised over 100 students, and is on the editorial board of two accessibility journals. He focuses on the design and evaluation of accessible multisensory technology and interfaces supporting graphical access, mapping, and the underlying information processing requirements needed for promoting accurate learning and representation of a broad range of information sources.
“Your life activities primarily rely on vision, while mine primarily rely on touch and audio. Beyond that, there is not much difference, as we both are accessing, inferring, and using the information around us to experience the world and do what needs getting done.”
Chief Technology Officer
Generative AI, Accessibility Technologies, AI/ML Governance, Cloud Infrastructure, Security and Compliance
Technology leader focused on building intelligent systems that deliver high-impact, accessible solutions and enhance human capability and experience. She has led technical organizations from the ground up into execution-ready teams, developing the people, processes, security foundations, and product delivery practices needed to move ideas into deployed systems. With over 17 years of experience across healthcare, MedTech, and enterprise environments, her work spans accessibility technology, industrial AI products, medical technology platforms, secure cloud infrastructure, and SOC 2 Type II readiness and implementation. Her accessibility work extends beyond professional technology leadership into community outreach, promoting inclusive robotics and STEM programs for students with disabilities and families with limited access to advanced technical education.
“Technology should level the playing field, expand opportunity, and enable innovation by people too often left out.”
AI Solutions Architect
Digital Accessibility & Inclusive Design, WCAG/Section 508 Conformance, Accessibility Audits & Testing (JAWS, NVDA), and Accessible Content Transformation (PDF/Word)
CPACC-certified AI Solutions Architect who builds scalable accessibility solutions that help organizations deliver inclusive digital experiences. He specializes in accessibility automation, WCAG conformance, and content transformation, with a focus on AI-powered workflows that bridge accessibility requirements and practical enterprise implementation. His experience spans accessibility engineering, cloud architecture, and security.
“Accessibility determines who gets to participate. Technology should work for everyone. I believe great products remove barriers, create opportunities, and enable people of all abilities to engage fully in the digital world.”
AI Application Engineer
Multi-Agent LLM Architectures, Content Intelligence & Computer Vision, Generative AI & MLOps Pipelines, and Automated Accessibility Transformation.
An AI Application Engineer who builds and deploys scalable, autonomous agentic pipelines that automate complex accessibility and content intelligence workflows. Backed by extensive knowledge in Generative AI and deep learning, he specializes in architecting distributed multi-agent LLM systems, multimodal RAG pipelines, and custom computer vision frameworks. He works at the intersection of model development and robust cloud infrastructure orchestrating production-ready microservices, high-throughput MLOps workflows, and parallelized execution loops on AWS to turn intricate accessibility maturity requirements into seamless enterprise automation.
“Building intelligent AI systems isn't just about automation it's about engineering the tools that dismantle digital barriers and rebuild a more inclusive world, one layout primitive at a time.”
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Secure Full-Stack Platform Engineering, Cloud Architecture, and Scalable Systems.
His work spans Software Development across UI & Backend, AWS cloud infrastructure, and platform reliability. He works at the intersection of product engineering, cloud systems, and security-minded architecture, helping turn complex accessibility workflows into reliable, user-friendly digital experiences.
“Everyone deserves equal access to knowledge that empowers learning and opportunity.”
AI Research Engineer
Content Intelligence & Computer Vision, GenAI & Prompt Engineering, Accessibility QA, Research & Development, Startup Operations & GTM Strategy
Specializing in computer vision and automated digital accessibility workflows, her work focuses on turning complex, exclusionary information assets into inclusive, adaptive learning experiences. From engineering custom computer vision models to building enterprise integrations and managing business operations, she is dedicated to creating a future where digital content is seamlessly usable by everyone.
“Accessibility isn't something you test at the end of development, it is a fundamental human right. For decades, the digital world has been built for the 'average' user, leaving people with disabilities to navigate systems that exclude them. We don't need more retrofitting; we need to shift left. True inclusion means designing with people, not just for them.”
Accessibility requirements continue to evolve, but the goal remains the same: ensuring that information is accessible to everyone.
We believe the future of accessibility lies in integrating accessibility into everyday content workflows — making access easier to create, maintain, and scale.
Our mission is to help organizations move from reactive transformation to proactive accessibility.
CPACC specialists validate critical workflows — not checkbox automation alone.
WCAG 2.2, Section 508, PDF/UA, and ADA Title II built into every output path.
Active participation in accessibility research, education, and practitioner communities.
We show up where accessibility practitioners, educators, and institutional leaders gather — sharing live demos, research, and workflows that scale.
Live demos of Morf transforming content into accessible formats in minutes — scalable workflows, Section 508 / WCAG conformance, and ADA Title II readiness.
Read our CSUN announcement →Practical paths to accessible digital content for educators and accessibility specialists — including ADA Title II readiness and inclusive learning with MorfDocs.
Visit ATIA → (opens in new tab)California Transcribers and Educators for the Blind and Visually Impaired — converting everyday worksheets, PDFs, and lessons into accessible learning materials for inclusive classrooms.
Learn about CTEBVI → (opens in new tab)Free in-person showcase of assistive technology innovations — exploring how Morf makes digital content more accessible and inclusive alongside national AT exhibitors.
Carroll Center → (opens in new tab)Morf selected to present how we are redefining content accessibility at scale to top VCs, corporate investors, and New England industry leaders.
Morf on LinkedIn → (opens in new tab)Contributing to professional accessibility standards, CPACC practitioner communities, and organizational planning for sustained accessibility programs.
International Association of Accessibility Professionals → (opens in new tab)Talk with practitioners who understand your content accessibility program. Explore how MorfAlign can help your organization transform complex content into accessible, adaptable, and reusable information assets.
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