Coding accessibility: How Della found her voice with open source AAC

In the latest episode of GitHub’s “Coding Accessibility” video series, we meet Della Calder, her brother Archer, and their parents. After watching several expensive and proprietary Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) apps fail to meet his sister's needs, Archer decided to build an open source alternative. With Della helping to guide the design, and the open source community by his side, Archer built the FreeSpeechAAC app, which meets Della’s needs like none before.
Also available: Coding Accessibility: Della & Archer Audio Descriptive Version • Coding accessibility: ...
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[@DannyDrizzy-b9j]

he is very good brother, like everyone wish to have

[@codepinot]

third❤❤

[@MellowJustin]

first and hi

[@laujimmy9282]

Second ❤❤❤🎉

[@laujimmy9282]

This is very inspiring ❤❤❤ keep up the good work

[@haydenhilton]

Archer is such an amazing person. I’m very passionate about AAC and all things disability justice in general.

[@irql2]

Perspective is a helluva drug isnt it? Some might look at having a child with a disability as some sort of burden and perhaps there are burdensome aspects, but the lens I'm looking through at this family is that they're absolutely thriving because of this beautiful young lady. It brings me to tears to see how he loves his little sister when so many of us out there cant stand our siblings. Pains me to admit when I was his age, I probably would have been out chasing skirts instead of trying to build something for my little sister. Respect, Archer.. Respect.

[@coolhandle572]

at it's core, an ACC app is just a bunch of buttons that play audio files. I can probably make something like that in a weekend with svelte or even vanilla JS.

[@webasdf]

Special needs siblings are the best! Keep up the good work.

[@IsraelMendoza-OOOOOOO]

Awesome ❤

[@Bruno-m5v]

You are a real hero. ❤

[@Safe_intentions]

Few questions , 2 1 how do i access this ? 2 how to use license of two apps to make something out of it ( like assembling or fitting parts to make whole ) Better if you Make it available in play store.

[@abubakarsadeeq2974]

Fourth

[@henriquerochaserrano8452]

Simply gorgeous ❤

[@seanu6840]

Everything has a cause, when it comes to birth defects, as usually an environmental Event that causes it. I wonder what happened during the pregnancy, the promoted the produce this child

[@webasdf]

Sometimes these things just happen. It's nobody's fault.