Weave Chat AAC

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Description of App

Weave Chat is a free AAC app for people who have difficulty with spoken language or words. It is category based with dynamic display, synthetic voices, and custom boards.

Weave Chat AAC is a free, dynamic, and completely customizable AAC app that is available to a variety of devices.

Weave Chat AAC offers a large variety of verbs (green), pronouns (yellow), questions (purple), nouns (tan/orange), adjectives (blue), and conversational words (pink). All color choices were made based on the Fitzgerald Key and new vocabulary is added weekly.

Users can add their own custom images and categories in Settings —> Manage Custom Images.

In addition, users can add their own custom phrases that can easily be accessed from their board; to add phrases, go to Settings —> Manage Phrases.

Users can select a synthetic voice (dependent on their device settings) from Settings —> Change Voice Settings - here you can select your voice, vocal pitch, and rate of speech.

Image and text size can be personalized from Settings —> Change Image & Text Size (select from default - small, medium, and large). Settings —> Configure Image Keyboard allows the user to turn on/off features that allow for the category text to be read aloud (synthetic voice for categories), to keep the user in the category after a image has been selected (stay on category after image selection), and disable the speech output for individual words so that it only reads aloud when the white text screen is touched (synthetic voice disabled for individual words).

The AAC board can be modified in Settings —> Manage Board Builder. Here, the user can select from the default board (you must make a copy to edit it - to do this select “Add new keyboard” and then select “Hide Images” for Type of Keyboard); grid position boards (ranging in size from 1x2 - 7x15 rows/columns); and Board Builder (gives you the option to build a board from scratch). All boards are completely editable and all custom images and categories can be used from all boards.

Lastly, Manage Pin Configuration allows the user to set a pin over all (or just some) aspects of customization to lock down features as needed.

Feature List:

- Dynamic, customizable, AAC boards

- Large variety of verbs, nouns, and adjectives with additional vocabulary added weekly

- Add custom images and custom categories

- Create and save phrases

- Select a synthetic voice (as available per your device settings)

- Copy & Paste AAC picture icon messages via “share”

- Create and/or modify AAC boards via 3 options: grid position boards (ranging from 1x2 - 7x15), hide images, and/or create a new board from scratch

- “Text” others who have the app using AAC picture icons

- Set a passcode to lock down features as needed

- Weave Chat AAC currently only has English buttons/images

Version

1.13.11

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone
iPad

iOS Version

18.1.1

Accessibility Comments

So I rated it fully accessible but with minor issues because when you want to edit a board or go in settings or your profile, Voiceover reads it as if its one sentence and tapping on what you want or need to is hard. Until you turn on screen recognition, then you can do what you want and need and save then turn it back off after you are done. That is really the only problem I had and it's not a really big issue to me.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.

Other Comments

This app is a free app and great for those who might need it for communication.

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