Solving problems of inclusion and equalityAs per our previous post, we’re making a big effort to improve our finance systems at eQuality Time. As part of this, we’ve changed how we look at financial statements internally. We believe in transparency at eQuality Time, so here’s our Current Balance Sheet. Once we’ve got a few more months of good practice under […]
One of the cool parts of the Comic Relief bid that we won was that they ring fenced some money for us to spend on hiring a consultant to improve our policies and procedures. This was really good, like everybody else we assume that we’re mostly on top of everything: accounts filed on time, thorought […]
This Friday we’ll be updating the Open Voice Factory website. There WON’T be much of a change for users, but there will be quite a lot of back end changes that make life a bit easier for us to add new features. The alteration WON’T affect any existing aids that have been generated, but it might mean that there is […]
Our trustees work hard for eQuality Time and one of Joe’s main jobs is: Making sure that trustees know everything they need to know Making sure that trustees aren’t overwhelmed by so much detail that they might miss important decisions. So, roughtly weekly, the trustees get a briefing of what’s happening with eQuality Time. I’d […]
A project we are currently workshopping… For UK residents looking for historical information, Wikipedia is invariably the go-to resource. The English Wikipedia alone has over 2.6 billion words, covering 4.4 million articles. There are many examples of extremely rich, detailed, beautifully illustrated historical articles. Unfortunately, Wikipedia also suffers from a systemic bias of editors. […]
We’ve been working hard on the Essex Challenge Prize, and today we’ve done a fair amount of restructing of our online information about the project. You can read about our plan, our progress, and how we are getting on by starting with this page on the eQuality Time wiki. That will link you to all […]
Recently we’ve spent a lot of time bogged down in medical device registration for The Open Voice Factory. As part of this we developed a risk assessment around the software – looking at the potential causes of harm (i.e. “What happens if there is a fire in the house and our software fails to help […]
After a short corraspondence with the wonderful Emma Colton, who writes the equaly wonderful The Happy Hearing Aid blog she sent us this amazing piece on the trials and troubles with dealing with TV subtitles. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. A few years ago, while still at University, I was a […]
In May we were shortlisted in the Essex Dementia Challenge Prize. Nine shortlisted projects were give £5,000 each to develop an idea, with the idea that the best idea will receive £100,000 to take it to market. Our idea is: use the resources we’ve developed for The Open Voice Factory (particularly CommuniKate) to create a communication board […]
Check out these amazing In-case-of-emergency (ICE) cards translated by volenteers in Thailand! They are based on our CommuniKate ICE cards for people with speech disabilities, You can download them from our Github repo, where you will also find the English version to use (or to translate!) .