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.
Today’s guest post comes via Yonatan Wexler, Senior VP of R&D at OrCam, OrCam have been putting together some interesting designs in AT and I invited them to talk to us about the design process – Joe At an exhibition in London this year I met a woman who had a stroke […]
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 […]
Today’s guest feature is from Tobias Buehrs. Most of my guest features are from people who are re-purposing ‘everyday’ technology into disability technology, so it was particularly nice to find someone who was re-purposing disability technology to attack a very different social issue – Joe European news is currently dominated by reports of thousands […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new post from Josh Grisdale who runs the very wonderful Accessible Japan (www.accessible-japan.com) Japan is on the to-do list of many travellers. For the less adventurous, it is westernized enough and developed enough that it is not too scary. For those who want something unique, Japan offers thousands of years of history and a […]
Christine is one of our regular writers – she focuses on topics related to eating disorders. You’d think that there were only so many dvds that one person could watch, so many crosswords they could do, so many ceilings you could stare at, but you’d be wrong. It is amazing how quickly doing nothing filled […]
So I’ve the last few months I’ve been talking a little about the Supertitle project, We introduced the concept, talked a little bit about the prototype and dealt with our first funding rejection. As a bit of a change of fortunes. This turned up in the post: Awards for all have given eQuality Time £8,995 […]
Today’s feature comes from Samiya Parvez of Andiamo – everything about this story made me want to share it- Joe. In 2003 I gave birth to our son Diamo. He was born severely disabled and was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and he was quadriplegic. Little did we know how profound an impact Diamo would have […]