Stages that proved it works: Super Bowl LX, the NBA All-Star Game, and the MLB All-Star Game.
For blind and low-vision sports fans, the live game has always been something happening just out of reach, described secondhand, felt through the crowd but never really followed play by play. Jerred Mace and Andrew Buckingham decided that gap did not have to exist.
They built a way to feel it. Founded in 2021 at the University of Washington, their company OneCourt makes a tactile broadcast: a tablet a fan lays their hands flat on to feel the ball move across a relief map of the field in real time, with different vibrations for tackles, touchdowns, and field goals, and buttons to hear the score, down, and time remaining. Mace runs it as CEO, with Buckingham as CTO.
It is not a prototype anymore. OneCourt has proven the technology at Super Bowl LX, the NBA All-Star Game, and the MLB All-Star Game, and in 2026 launched an at-home version with a tablet, an app, and an All-Access subscription that unlocks every football, basketball, and baseball game with no blackout dates, built in partnership with the American Council of the Blind.
"The game was always just out of reach. They built a way to put it in your hands."
Accessibility usually gets treated as an afterthought, a checkbox bolted onto something built for everyone else. Mace and Buckingham started from the fan who gets left out and engineered the whole experience around them. That is what it looks like to design for the people the rest of the industry forgot.
This is the builder work ANF loves to spotlight. Find the people an entire industry overlooks, and build the thing that finally includes them.
They could not give blind fans the picture. So they gave them the feeling of the game.