I wanted to share small new project with you all. Our most successful project is The Open Voice Factory. It converts easy-to-use PowerPoint designs into communication aids that can be used by people with speech difficulties. Like most communication aids, The Open Voice Factory is very visual and works on a grid. This makes them potentially […]
Author: Joe
How we ask for money
This is the set of times we’ve asked for money for things we want to do. It gives us information about what we have tried to do so far, and that can help us decide things in future. We share it because it might help people who have the same plans. Also, people who like us can […]
Open Voice Factory has updated
Following some fairly intensive work by testers (thank you everbody!), we’ve updated the Open Voice Factory as well as its CommuniKate templates. This has fixed one bug made one design change, and added one feature. The bug was relatively simple – the colour wasn’t been read from some PowerPoint cells correctly, which meant that they […]
Mozfest
eQuality Time will be running a design session at Mozfest in a few weeks. We’re very excited about this. Mozfest is an astonishingly exciting place. Joe wrote this about it a little while ago: The easiest way of explaining Mozfest is this. There are 900 people there. You can ask any one of them ‘What’s […]
The Open Voice Factory and the case for academics
We’ve made our hope for The Open Voice Factory fairly clear in terms of end users: free communication, wherever you are in the world. However, I thought it was worth taking some time to lay down the strong intellectual case for why it can be a game changer for academics as well. I used to be […]
eQuality Time releases The Open Voice Factory to public beta!
Today eQuality Time released The Open Voice Factory to public beta. The Open Voice Factory is a free, open source tool for creating communication apps. Anyone can create an aid by editing a PowerPoint template to add their one pages or utterances. When you upload your template to the factory, it will create a working […]
Supertitle Phase 2: report
The Supertitle project is one of our key ideas at eQuality Time and it’s also the only one that’s younger than eQuality Time itself. It’s been entirely developed in public view. We’ve run sessions in 10 schools so far, working with around 60 students in six languages. We’ve made our materials and our technology better […]
eQuality time is two years old.
eQuality Time became two years old yesterday. There was a small celebration with a small cake. So many people contributed to this, I hope that you are all as proud as I am.
ISAAC 2016
eQuality Time has been at ISAAC 2016, the major (and indeed, probably only) international conference for people interested in AAC. We were there to try and find helpers and get a real sense of AAC outside of the UK. It’s hard to know how that went, we met some great people, but only time will […]
Interview with Justin Tomlinson MP
It’s been an astonishing few weeks in the UK’s political system with lots of change. One of the less reported aspects was the replacement of Justin Tomlinson MP as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Disabled People. To editorialise, although I was and remain opposed to the government’s approach to disability, I’ve met Justin, and he […]