Solving problems of inclusion and equalityToday we’re going to go into a little bit of detail about a choice we made when building our test version of the Open Voice Factory. One of the unusual things about the video we put out a few months back is the choice of using PowerPoint to edit AAC pagesets. We’d like to talk […]
We’ve just confirmed that eQuality Time will be at ISAAC’s 2016 conference. The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) works to improve the lives of children and adults with communication disabilities and their conference, held every two years, is very much the biggest event on the communication disability calendar. It’s being held […]
So we won the inclusive technology prize and it’s time to, well, react to that. It’s incredible on two levels. We believe in AzuleJoe and Communikate, we believe that their time is now and that they can produce real change. The prize publicity, and the funding that will come with it is a real validation […]
Note from Joe: this is a pretty big thing, so I’m going to just deliver the press release for now. Our ‘personal reactions’ will be in a later post. The inaugural Inclusive Technology Prize has been awarded to AzuleJoe, an open-source project that will help give people with communication difficulties a voice, highlighting how innovative […]
As part of the Inclusive Technology Prize. Kate and I are designing a development plan for CommuniKate and AzuleJoe to look at how hope the projects will unfold in the next fewyears. Part of this process is the creation of a Theory of Change. So many different things are called a ‘Theory of Change’ that […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RM6bg1Q03o This is a demonstration video showing the state of our AzuleJoe project as it is right now (for developers, the video was made around this commit). The script for the video is included below. This is a demonstration video for AzuleJoe. We’re going to walk you through setting up an online speech aid for […]
Note from Joe: this note was written in the middle of February, and I’ve just found it, ironically, on the date that the Nesta prize was announced. I’m presenting it unaltered here. Yesterday was a big day for eQuality Time. We were one of 10 finalists who pitched to Nesta’s team of judges for […]
eQuality Time paid its first code bounty recently. Code bounties are a great tool, particularly for organisations our size, but most readers of the blog might be unfamiliar with the term. When building The Open Voice Factory I made a lot of use of a python library called python-pptx. It’s an open source library – someone […]
We’re in the process of running some user-testing for CommuniKate and AzuleJoe. User testing is an interesting proposition for the sort of things that we are building given the extreme ranges of situations that people in AAC deal with. User-testing is that thing that designers don’t want to do because they know their design will […]
The purpose of this post is to show you how easy it is for a hobbyist to retarget AzuleJoe with nothing but Paint and Notepad. Motivation The injection of the Inclusive Technology Prize money has meant that I have been able to spend a lot of time recently developing on AzuleJoe – it’s moving forward […]