Airchat: Just Talk 12+

The app is a great idea. But being its main input source being speech kind of hurts it. What about people with speech impediments? This could potentially exclude those people because people wouldn’t want to use this. I’m just curious what this company’s approach to that is.

I’ve had so many wonderful little conversations with people all around the world on this app. The voice interface makes it so easy and fluid to jump in and out of any conversation or topic. You can goof around with AI transcriptions, make silly sounds, sing a song, have a heart to heart, learn new languages, or you can get into deep deep conversations about any topic.

Actually hearing the voice of other PEOPLE on this app is extremely humanizing. They are just posters. They are real humans that you can actually connect with. You can hear the sarcastic tone of a joke and no one gets mad about it like they might on a text based platform.

This is really special, and it’s so early. AirChat is going to grow into something incredible.

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I can tell accessibility was not thought of before the process of design started, ideally at conception level. Having done an high-level walkthrough the app using accessibility tools, the most I could give the app is 1-star.

Anyone using a screen reader will be so confused and disoriented when VoiceOver or TalkBack read through “image” and generated AI alt text is a huge failure. AI will never be the answer for accessibility in any way, shape, or form.

So the usual pushing live an inaccessible app is highly disappointing but expected in the eyes of the accessibility and disabled community.

Now the devs aren’t to blame. This lies at the top. So the developers at some point will need to go back and take the time to make it accessible, if the company chooses to do so. Which costs money, time, and resources. This is why accessibility should be thought of from the very beginning before design.

This app could be a game changer, yet instead falls into the category of just another mediocre app with great potential.