I hope it isn’t too off topic, but if my project ever becomes enough of a serious prospect to start farming it out to potential users for suggestions and feedback about what’s wrong with it, would you be interested in having a poke/tinker with it and sharing your thoughts? My day job is working as a PA to an AAC user, so I’ve sort of come across the idea for doing this through realising that regardless of the type of bureaucracy controlling cash flow for AAC (here it’s the NHS, in other places it’s insurance) the conflict between gatekeepers wanting to save money and vendors wanting to keep prices on their mostly-captive markets high is causing a lot of people to be stuck waiting, or to be left with inadequate options because they’re cheaper or they’re what’s been contracted for already, or whatever.

Unfortunately I can’t afford lots of new gadgets so I mostly use my iPod Touch and a laptop. (Afforded the iPod + Proloquo2Go through that stimulus package that came out just at the right time, and my laptop as a combination of gift and leftover money from services at the end of a fiscal year.)

The tablets seem like they’d be interesting but possibly too large and unwieldy. But I haven’t tried one so I can’t say for certain. The solid state hard drive would be an improvement over my laptop durability-wise. I’d have to see. (But I’d also have to afford, and that’s where I’d have trouble. Especially since my most pressing assistive tech need right now is a manual wheelchair that suits my needs in situations where I couldn’t take my powerchair. And that’s seemingly only one kind of chair, which is pretty expensive especially once customized for me (Invacare Solara).)

Something you might not be aware with these devices is they have touch feedback. A slight vibration when you touch a key on the keyboard. I know for my own son that is non-verbal , he loves that sensation. We dont own a android tablet yet, but I have tested this out at the local bestbuy a couple times between the ipad and also the galaxy android tablet. And he likes the android a lot better. And I do believe it is because of the extra feedback from the keyboard. Was wondering about your thoughts on this?