Solving problems of inclusion and equalityOne 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!) .
Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation are funding thirteen organisations to receive funding from their Tech for Good stream. eQuality Time is one of them! We’re receiving £45,000 to develop the Open Voice Factory, along with lots of support and guidance. We have so many people to thank, and a sudden big responsbility. It’s going […]
Several years ago, at the start of the Open Voice Factory project, it became clear that we’d need to register the Open Voice Factory, or some part of it, as a medical device. It was publicised to, in the words of the relevant european directive ‘mitigate handicap’, and so it needed to be registered. There […]
In an team with real flexible work you would be able to shut your laptop at any time without any guilt. There’s lots of reasons you might want to. Maybe you are sick. Maybe someone you care about is sick. Maybe you want to spend some time on your mental health and maybe someone has […]
eQuality Time has a project we’ve been working on for some time. It’s an artistic project and we’ve submitted to the arts council. We’ve been rejected. Six times. Each time we got back over the project, make big changes or little changes (there are two ways that the arts council can reject you, one […]
In the last post I talked about my (Joe’s) failing to get good results about the White Water Writers project. By contrast, today I’m posting about the far far better science done by our team at Keele University. Below is the abstract that they have sent to the AERA conference recently. Some bits that I’m […]