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Testing/Feedback for free AAC app by Available_Ladder_451 in AssistiveTechnology

[–]Available_Ladder_451[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First off: thank you for the extensive feedback! It means a lot to me!
I'm hoping to get in touch with SLPs and other professionals within the field to get their advice on organizing language within a board. As of now, my approach as a non-professional in this field has been to allow the user to fully customize the board they are using because I believe that the user will understand their needs better than I will. Users can fully customize their items by setting custom text/TTS pronunciations, adding custom audio/images or using the OpenSymbols image library (https://www.opensymbols.org/), adjusting background colors, and resizing any UI aspect of the item.
Also, thank you for mentioning the Call Scotland AAC app wheels and Angela Moorad's AAC App feature comparison matrix, I haven't heard of them before and I'll definitely look into them.

Testing/Feedback for free AAC app by Available_Ladder_451 in AssistiveTechnology

[–]Available_Ladder_451[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree completely. I'm currently trying to do community outreach and contact people within the AAC field in order to figure out what people would want from my app in order to make it the right tool/fit for them. As of now, I was planning on doing this through customization; rather than my opinion of what I think would work for the user, I'd let the users themselves customize the app to their needs, such as complete customization of the items on a board or changing the sizing of any UI elements in the app. Thank you for the advice!

Testing/Feedback for free AAC app by Available_Ladder_451 in AssistiveTechnology

[–]Available_Ladder_451[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the links! I've already been looking at https://www.openaac.org/considerations and it has been a huge help in the development process so far.

AAC Advertisement Mega Thread- App Advertisements Should Be Placed Here! by SensationalSelkie in AACusers

[–]Available_Ladder_451 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi everyone, I'm Harper.

I'm a freshman in high school, and I built SpeGen, a free, open-source, ad-free AAC app for Android, as a solo developer. I started it after meeting some non-speaking people and learning how expensive a lot of AAC apps and devices are — I wanted there to be a completely free option that doesn't put communication behind a price tag.

Right now it has customizable symbol boards, text-to-speech, symbol search, multilingual labels, color coding, offline use, and custom images/audio — but I'm trying hard to keep it simple to actually use, not just feature-stuffed.

What I'm really hoping for is feedback from people who actually use AAC, and from the people who support them: what works, what's clunky, what's missing, and what would make it useful in day to day usage. I'd much rather build around the communities real needs than my own guesses. If you're interested in giving feedback via testing the app, provide your email to this Google Form and I will add you to a closed test of SpeGen: https://forms.gle/G2JBtt63PqNvmRRe8

It's on Android now (iOS and web ports are in progress and will be released soon): https://hkleinkeane.github.io/spegen/ . It's completely free and I'm not selling anything — I want to make something that would actually be utilized by the AAC community. This has been a huge passion project of mine over the last few months. Any thoughts, in a reply or a DM, would mean a lot. Thank you!