Solving problems of inclusion and equalityBit of an announcement – AzuleJoe, has been chosen as one of the ten finalists for the Inclusive Prize (we’ve known for a little while, but the embargo has only just been lifted). We’d reached the semi-finals a few months ago, I didn’t do a post on it at the time for a […]
The idea of launching CommuniKate as the first open licensed AAC page set was conceived exactly here, when Kate and I had dinner after BETT2014 (you can read my opinions of the event itself here). So it was kind of nice that, exactly one year later, that Kate and I were invited to pitch CommuniKate […]
So, The CommuniKate Project is about one year old, and it’s been released about three months now, to much more of a pleasant reaction than we expected. A few weeks ago Kate and I sat down in Tibbits with the back of an envelope and worked out where we want to go (AzuleJoe has its own goals, […]
One of the parts of CommuniKate 20 that turned out to be very popular is AzuleJoe, the demonstration software we use. It’s time to talk a little bit about that live demo and how it works. This is one of those posts that’s only focused on the technical reader. It will have very little value to the non-coders […]
So in November we launched CommuniKate 20. We were, and are, pretty proud of it. In the last two months, something a little strange has happened, it’s been very popular, and interestingly we’re seeing more and more traffic to AzuleJoe, the demonstration software we use. We’d intended that the demo page be used by SLTs […]
Nine months ago I started working with Kate McCallum on a project that was pretty important to both of us. You will remember Kate from showing us how to hack a switch and from giving us a guide to creating a tactile overlay. Some years ago Kate built a page-set called CommuniKate for her little […]