open-standards/aac/vocab/LEXICON.md
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spec(aac): 0.2.0 — language honesty, and timing that belongs to the person
- §4.1 Language honesty: every language states how its core vocabulary was
  obtained (CoreStatus); an absent status reads as GlossOnly; glosses are never
  presented as a language's core. Withdraws the claim that one ~400-word core
  covers ~80% of every language.
- §5.1 Timing belongs to the person: scan rate and dwell are theirs to set;
  automatic adaptation is off unless they opt in; changes are proposed, never
  silent.
- §5.2 Scan-rate floor: max(⌊100·M/65⌋, P95), from at least 10 responses.
  The previous reference set 80% of the mean press, so the highlight had
  usually moved on when the person pressed.
- §5.3 Dwell proposals go both ways, with floors, replacing "should adapt to
  fatigue" (the old reference only ever lengthened the dwell).
- §10 adds C5–C7; §11 says access and vocabulary choices are never a
  prerequisite for starting.
- spec/access_model.md, the lexicon and the ontology agree (new CoreStatus
  class and individuals; scanRateMs, dwellMs, adaptationOptIn; Turtle, SHACL
  and JSON-LD validated with rdflib). New aac-rs/README.md covers testing,
  the static build, and hosting Express under another site.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-28 16:26:17 -04:00

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AAC lexicon (v1)

The controlled vocabulary of the AAC standard. Terms are stable; their IRIs live in v1.ttl under https://aac.transaction.science/vocab/v1#.

Term Meaning
Utterance The cargo AAC carries: what a non-speaking person means to say, composed by selecting cells.
Board A communication surface holding cells, of a given board type. The portable unit a voice travels as.
Board type Grid | VisualScene | Keyboard | Hybrid | QuickAccess. A rendering + vocabulary-strategy marker.
Cell A single selectable target at a fixed grid position, with content and an action.
Position (row, col), 0-indexed. Assigned once and immutable for the life of the cell — the motor invariant.
Motor stability The guarantee that cell positions never move except by explicit edit. Muscle memory is sacred.
Cell content Symbol{id,label} | Text | Photo{ref,label} | Blank. Blank is an addressable reservation of geometry.
Cell action What activation does: Speak | Navigate | Modifier | Backspace | Clear | Predict | SpeakAll | Buffer.
Symbol A pictographic word referenced by source and id — not embedded pixels — so a board stays small and portable.
Access method The physical channel of selection: DirectTouch | EyeGaze | HeadTracking | SwitchScan{n} | Joystick | Bci | PartialVoice | Pointer.
Motor profile The user's physical capabilities (fine motor, sustained press, tremor, target size, reach, side) used to adapt targets and timing.
Scan mode The switch-scanning pattern: Linear | RowColumn | Group | Block | inverse.
Dwell Selection by sustained gaze, with visible progress feedback and a dwell time the person sets.
Timing proposal A change of scan rate or dwell time that a client computes from the person's own responses and offers; it takes effect only when they accept it, or automatically if they opted in. Timing never changes silently.
Core status How a language's core vocabulary was obtained: ValidatedNativeCorpus (studied in the language) | StakeholderValidated (rated by its speakers) | PrimesOnly (provisional seed) | GlossOnly (glosses of another language's core). Absent means GlossOnly.
Vocabulary level Emergent | Transitional | Conventional | Literate — the user's stage, which selects the prediction tier.
Cascade L0:Cache → L1:Symbol → L2:LocalPredict → … → L9:AdaptiveModel. The lowest level that closes a request wins.
Offline invariant Exactly L0–L2 are offline-capable and carry 95%+ of communication; a network drop never silences a user.
Free invariant No cascade level is gated behind payment at the protocol layer. A voice is not a metered good.
Interchange Canonical export + one-directional ingest of existing boards. What goes in comes out; no lock-in.
Receipt The per-operation energy record (measured + estimated µJ, provenance-tagged) — shown for transparency, never billed.
Provenance HwShunt (hardware-measured) | ModelBased (calibrated model) | Estimator (constant). The honesty tag on every reading.
Steward Transaction Science: publishes the spec, ships the reference, runs optional services (symbol libraries, voice banking, team coordination). Not the owner — AAC carries no token.