Solving problems of inclusion and equalityAs part of the inclusive prize, CommuniKate and The Open Voice Factory (as AzuleJoe) had a small amount of press at Computer Weekly recently. Click to read.
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 […]
AzuleJoe and CommuniKate have won some funding from London Catalyst. London Catalyst are been a really interesting group to work with actually – before our application was considered by the trustees the CEO interviewed us at their offices to get a bit more of a sense of the projects and the bid. I think […]
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 […]
In AAC it’s hard to put enough stress on the importance of having a back up system. Devices break, batteries run down, swimming pools, bad weather, unusual situations, it’s one of those things that really are vital. (It’s also pretty handy when you are working with someone in their language – that way you can […]
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 […]