EyeSay AAC · pronounced “I Say”
Their world.
Their words.
Their voice.
A communication surface where language never moves. Forty-eight permanent word slots a communicator can trust with their body — and a separate field that adapts to the room they are actually standing in.
Built for nonspeaking and minimally speaking autistic children, and extensible to any AAC user. Nothing speaks until they press SPEAK.
The architecture
Language stays.
Context moves.
Most systems reshuffle a child's words to be helpful. That helpfulness costs them the muscle memory they spent months building.
The highlighted slot is r3c5. It is in that exact place this morning, next term and in three years.
08:05Kitchen
TOASTJUICEMUMNOT YET12:30School hall
MS OKAFORTOO LOUDSIT WITH SAMBREAK17:45Park
TRAMPOLINESWINGONE MOREHOME
Different words each time — and not one of them can move a slot on the left.
Beyond requesting
More than asking.
A snack request is not a voice. EyeSay is built so a communicator can decline, interrupt, wonder, remember, be funny and be difficult — the whole range a speaking child gets for free.
Routines are two-way: choosing a step also opens WHEN?, NOT YET, WHO? and I DON’T WANT, rather than a schedule to comply with.
Self-advocacy
Agency is always one touch away.
Five words hold the bottom of every screen, in every routine, on every page. Editing cannot remove them and no context can bury them.
STOP is the only place we use Agency Red, and it means what it says. The rest stay quiet and equally reachable — because needing the toilet should not require navigating a menu, and refusing should not be treated as a behaviour to manage.
- STOP
- Ends what is happening now.
- NO
- Refusal, on its own terms.
- HELP
- Asks for a person, not a prompt.
- BREAK
- Leaves without losing the activity.
- TOILET
- Never buried in a menu.
Personal context
Built around their world.
Their people, their places, the routine they are in and the things they love arrive in the Halo. The grid they navigate by feel does not move an inch.
- PeopleMum · Ms Okafor · Sam
- PlacesKitchen · school hall · park
- RoutinesMorning · swimming · bedtime
- InterestsDinosaurs · trampolines
- Time and partnerWho is here, and when
Privacy
Private by architecture.
Not a policy promise — a shape. The things that would be most tempting to collect are simply not sent anywhere.
What a child says belongs to the child. Their message history stays on their device and is not shown to the Companion surface by default. Their team gets vocabulary, routines and derived measures — never a transcript to read back to them.
On their device only
Message historySelected photos in Show MeFocus, contrast and scanning settingsThe current utteranceIn the cloud, for the team
Vocabulary definitions and slot mapRoutines and talk-back wordsPeople, places and interestsRoles, versions and audit recordsDerived metricsNever collected
Raw utterance transcriptsMicrophone audioContinuous location historyAdvertising or behavioural trackingCloud AI on their messagesEmotion or intent inference
Access
Legible, reachable, unhurried.
Accessibility decisions are product decisions here: target size, contrast, motion, scanning order and when a touch counts.
Labels first
Text is never a caption.
Contrast
High-contrast theme included.
Reduced motion
Honours the system setting.
Scanning
Predictable order. Halo scans separately.
Choose on release
Slide off to cancel a touch.
Colour never carries meaning alone. Every target is at least 44px, and larger by default. Read the accessibility commitments.
Start with one stable grid.
We are working with a small number of families, speech and language therapists and classrooms. Tell us about the communicator you support and what their current system keeps getting wrong.
Interim PWA
This release is an installable web app so families can use and shape it now. A native iPad application is in development, and the permanent slot map is designed to carry across to it unchanged.