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Limits come in every shape.
So do the ways past them.

No single product meets all of them. Each is met by something specific, described on this site as it actually is.

When the body will not follow

SuperAAC can be driven by touch, a mouse or head pointer, one or two switches, or eye gaze, and each of them can drive every board. The Lab adds what the hardware leaves out: Keyguard Studio and Holder Studio design a keyguard or a tablet holder for printing, free, and from December 1st the Head Tracking Mouse moves a pointer with the webcam a computer already has.

When speech is not there

SuperAAC speaks words, symbols and phrases aloud the moment one is chosen. SuperVOCA plays messages recorded in a familiar voice, or typed for one of 928 text-to-speech voices, 38 of them children's.

When words are hard to find

Boards are made of pictures as well as words, and the PAACs symbol set is inside SuperAAC, switched on from the start. On this site the Symbols switch puts a picture above the words; from December 15th PAACs4Web does the same on any website.

When letters are not there yet

From December 1st the Zaino Keyboard colours vowels warm and consonants cool and speaks each key as it is pressed, so a key can be found before its letter is known, by a single switch or by looking at it.

When the language is not yours

SuperAAC, SuperVOCA and this website are in 17 languages, and the training course in 16.

When the cost is the limit

An account is free, and so is everything the Lab makes. SuperAAC's plans are priced by how much of it a person needs, paid monthly or with a five-year licence paid once.

When the people around need to learn

From December 15th, Super Training takes a teacher, a therapist or a parent from a boxed device to a working board in twenty short modules, and the Super Specialists directory connects families with professionals verified by hand.

This website

The rules this site follows.

A company that makes communication software should not publish a website its own users cannot read. These are the rules applied here, and they are the ones the apps are built against.

Contrast

Body text clears 4.5:1 against its background; large text and non-text controls clear 3:1. The same floor governs the app, where it is enforced in code rather than left to a designer's eye.

Never colour alone

The current page in the navigation is marked by weight and tone, and sits in a raised capsule. Weight is what carries it: the capsule is a soft shape by design, so it is never the only thing saying where you are. In Windows high contrast, where the capsule cannot be drawn at all, an underline takes its place. The recommended plan is marked by a thicker border and the words "Most popular". Links in running text are underlined.

Target size

Every link, button and control is at least 44 by 44 pixels, including the small type in the global bar. This is the one place the site knowingly departs from its visual reference, which sets those links smaller.

Motion

If your system asks for reduced motion, animation is removed rather than shortened: the board settles on its finished sentence, scroll reveals are dropped entirely, and smooth scrolling is turned off. This mirrors Calm mode in SuperAAC, which suppresses animation, celebration and haptics together.

Text size

Type is set in relative units on flexible grids, so browser zoom and larger system text reflow the page instead of clipping it. No layout depends on one font's metrics, because the app lets a reader switch to Atkinson Hyperlegible and this site accepts the same substitution.

Without the scripts

The stylesheet does the work. The scripts add the theme switch, the mobile menu, sign-in and scroll reveals; with them blocked the navigation is a plain list, every word is on the page at full opacity, and the page is dark.

Images

The alternative text on each screenshot names what is in the picture and where it sits, so a reader who cannot see it is not simply told less. Those descriptions are the ones used in the SuperAAC manual.

Keyboard

A skip link opens the page. Focus is restyled, never removed, and stays visible on the page and on every card. The mobile menu closes on Escape and returns focus to the button that opened it. The sideways gallery is focusable and scrolls with the arrow keys.