OpenAdaptive

Support

Answers to the common questions are below. For anything else, an issue on GitHub is the fastest route, and email works too.

Bug reports, questions, and ideas are all welcome. Include the iOS version and what you were doing when something went wrong, and a screenshot if one helps.

Open an issue on GitHub contact@openadaptive.org

Questions

Where do I get the app?

The app is coming to the App Store. Until the listing is live, the app builds from source with Xcode; the README walks through it. The web app needs no install at all and builds and plays the same stories in a browser.

How do I connect a switch?

Pair the switch as an ordinary Bluetooth keyboard in Settings, Bluetooth. No Switch Control setup is needed: the app listens for the key presses itself. The Open Adaptive Switch works out of the box. In automatic scanning any of its actions picks, and in step scanning F13 (tap) moves, F14 (hold) picks, and F15 (long press) goes back. Any other switch or keyboard key can be assigned in the app's Settings by pressing it.

The keyboard stopped appearing when I type

While any Bluetooth keyboard is connected, and a paired switch counts as one, iOS hides the usual typing keyboard. The app notices and shows its own typing pad for naming stories, folders, and spots, so the switch can stay paired while you edit.

How do I get better voices?

Speech can use any voice installed on the device. Higher quality voices download in iOS Settings under Accessibility, Spoken Content, Voices. A Personal Voice recorded under Accessibility, Personal Voice works too. Siri's own voices are not open to apps.

How do I move stories to another device?

Export a story, or the whole shelf, as a .oastory file from the story menu and send it like any file: AirDrop, Messages, Files. An option strips voice recordings from the copy. Importing brings stories in from Files or straight from another device's AirDrop.

Can I import a PDF?

Yes. A PDF becomes a story with one page per PDF page, for the first 60 pages of a long one. Imported pages can be cleaned up like a document scan.

Whose stories may I share?

Your own. Story files exist to back up your stories and move them between your own devices. Photographing a book so your own child can read it with you is the same private use as reading it together; passing copies of someone else's book to other people is not. In practice families share what they made themselves, their photos and their voices, and that is entirely theirs.

Does the app collect any data?

No. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no ads, and the iOS app makes no network requests at all. The privacy policy is one page.

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