--- title: "Coding accessibility: How Della found her voice with open source AAC" url: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-accessibility-how-della-found-her-voice-with-open-source-aac-wrbjm5lzb source_url: https://github.com/readme/featured/open-source-aac type: article source: "The ReadMe Project" published: 2023-12-03T10:02:36.729Z updated: 2023-12-03T10:02:35.238Z tags: ["open-source", "accessibility"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 3 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Coding accessibility: How Della found her voice with open source AAC **[The ReadMe Project](https://daily.dev/sources/readme)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Della Calder, who had been in speech therapy for a few years, struggled to find an app that resonated with her. Her brother, Archer, built an open source AAC app called FreeSpeech specifically tailored to her needs and preferences. The app allows users to communicate by pushing individual buttons for words and ideas, translating them to speech. Della's involvement in the development process has been crucial, inspiring the initial design and contributing to a more accessible and usable product. FreeSpeech has enabled Della to participate in the world where other proprietary AAC apps failed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#accessibility](https://daily.dev/tags/accessibility) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/coding-accessibility-how-della-found-her-voice-with-open-source-aac-wrbjm5lzb)