# Full linear, tactile and no-print alternatives for eight original A4 aids

The SVG pages have titles/descriptions and selectable text; the one-page PDFs are **untagged** and should not be the sole screen-reader route. Read the exact linear text below, use a school's accessible format, or invite a child to direct an adult. The coloured panels have dark outlines and text labels; colour never carries the answer. The diagrams are not actual size pads, material tests or vessel placements. For a **tactile** route, an adult can describe or offer approved large full-size clean material and a broad raised boundary only under local touch/hygiene/access approval; a no-touch spoken/AAC route gives the same design goal. Never use a small cutout, sharp edge or vessel as a surprise tactile object. No gate/result is preselected.

## material-candidates.svg / material-candidates.pdf

Title: “Broad material candidates.” Subtitle: “Compare purposes, not guessed material properties.” Two side-by-side outlined candidate panels. Left **BROAD CARD**: a broad blank rectangle with a simple horizontal line; “A drawing, not an actual sample”; “Ask: suitable for which user?” Right **CLEAN SOFT CLOTH**: the same broad schematic rectangle and question. Bottom panel: **UNKNOWN UNTIL APPROVED LOOK / TOUCH / TRY**. “No sound, grip, allergy or strength result is supplied.” “A no-touch description and design route are complete.”

Linear prompt: “There are two drawn large candidate materials, broad card and clean soft cloth. Which might you explore for a named user? What would you need to ask or observe?” Tactile option: adult describes two actual approved full-size pieces, if available and wanted; record the actual source. The PDF does not show how either feels or sounds.

## two-purpose-brief.svg / two-purpose-brief.pdf

Title: “Two purposes, two questions.” Top panel **GENTLE CUE PAD**: one drawn broad rectangle and a circle marking a possible cue place; “A willing partner may choose silence.” Question: “What did this person actually notice?” Bottom panel **DRY LANDING PAD**: two separate A/B circles **above and apart from** a rectangle labelled **PAD IDEA · NOT TRIED**; “Adult places empty A, then B.” Question: “Was each actual base wholly on the pad?” Footer: “One purpose does not prove the other. NO WATER.” These are diagrams; no listener, real pad or vessel is shown, and no base has landed on the drawn pad.

Linear prompt: “What information would a willing cue user give? What would an adult see for each dry base?” Tactile/no-print option: trace two large imaginary rectangles on a clear tabletop or describe them; no actual tap or container is required.

## safe-pad-steps.svg / safe-pad-steps.pdf

Title: “Safe broad-pad steps.” Intro: “STOP for discomfort, unsuitable material or no approval.” Four large vertical numbered boxes, in this order: **1 ADULT CHECKS** — “Clean broad material, allergies, access, clear dry table.” **2 CHOOSE A BROAD PAD** — “Child proposes; adult prepares and approves real pieces.” **3 TRY ONE APPROVED ACTION** — “Optional gentle cue OR adult places empty A then B.” **4 ASK AND RECORD** — “Exact user response or each actual visible base position.” Final line: “No approved action? Write NOT TRIED; keep the design.”

Linear prompt: “Say the four steps. Who handles the object? What stops the action?” Tactile option: adult reads one whole large step card at a time; child reorders verbally, by pointing or AAC. These words do not authorize a physical try.

## design-record.svg / design-record.pdf

Title: “Pad design and evidence record.” Four large blank panels with writing lines: **USER / PURPOSE** — “Who is this for? What do they need?” **TWO IDEAS / CHOICE** — “What differs? Why choose one first?” **HANDLER / ACTUAL ACTION** — “Who touched what? Cue or dry A/B separately?” **USER / BASE / NEXT QUESTION** — “Exact feedback or A and B position; what remains?” Intro: “Keep design, physical action and real response separate.” All fields are blank.

Linear prompt: ask each field in order and transcribe exact child words. Tactile/no-print option: four large spoken headings, with adult writing under each. If no approved trial, write NOT TRIED in the action/result field rather than inventing a response.

## dry-vessel-brief.svg / dry-vessel-brief.pdf

Title: “Dry vessel design brief.” Two side-by-side invented outline panels: **EMPTY A** and **EMPTY B**, each a simple empty open container outline with a horizontal placeholder line. No dimensions or volumes are encoded. Intro: **INVENTED OUTLINES · NO PAD OR PLACEMENT SHOWN**. Bottom: **NO WATER · adult handles real empty vessels**; “For A and B separately: FULLY ON / EDGE OFF / NOT TRIED”; “Dry base position does not show capacity or stability.”

Linear prompt: “An adult would place approved real empty unbreakable A then B separately on a full-size broad pad. What visible base position would you need to see for each? If it did not happen, say NOT TRIED.” Tactile route can describe A/B outlines and a broad pad boundary verbally; no actual vessel handling is required.

## local-source-slot.svg / local-source-slot.pdf

Title: “Real familiar source slot.” Four empty large provenance panels: **APPROVED FAMILIAR SOURCE** — “Which real product, service or environment?” **DATE / PLACE / PERMISSION** — “When, where, and who approved showing it?” **CHILD-SEEN FEATURE** — “What was actually noticed, not inferred?” **PURPOSE / OPEN QUESTION** — “Who designed it to help? What remains unknown?” Top instruction: “Leave blank without an actual school-approved source.”

Linear prompt: use only for a genuinely observed local familiar designed item. Child can dictate all four fields. Tactile route: adult describes the approved real item accurately if touching it is unsuitable; record that the child heard a description rather than saw/touched it. A fictional practice drawing never fills this provenance slot.

## check-a-puppet-signal.svg / check-a-puppet-signal.pdf

Title: “Check A: Puppet Signal Pad.” Fresh fictional source panel: **PUPPET SIGNAL PAD**; “A willing partner wants an optional gentle turn cue”; “They may choose a visible sign instead of sound”; “No material, pad or user response is supplied.” Below: “Show TWO different broad-pad ideas; choose one for the user.” Two empty response rectangles labelled **IDEA ONE** and **IDEA TWO**. Bottom: “What would the willing user actually report? NOT TRIED is valid.” There is no gate/result or model answer in the response spaces.

Linear prompt: read the source once, allow an independent first idea in any communication mode, then collect before coaching. Tactile option: adult describes two blank large spaces and records the child's exact directed ideas without adding content. No real sound/touch trial is needed.

## check-b-museum-vessel.svg / check-b-museum-vessel.pdf

Title: “Check B: Museum Vessel Pad.” Fresh fictional source panel: **EMPTY EXHIBIT A / EMPTY EXHIBIT B**; “Adult places empty unbreakable vessels separately”; “Design a broad DRY landing pad and findable labels”; **NO WATER · no pad or result is supplied**. Below: “Show TWO different pad ideas; choose one for this adult.” Two blank response rectangles labelled **IDEA ONE** and **IDEA TWO**. Bottom unselected status line: **A and B: FULLY ON / EDGE OFF / NOT TRIED**. No physical result is printed.

Linear prompt: child gives two designs, a user-linked choice, safe steps and separate actual/unknown A/B statuses. Tactile/no-print option: adult reads the two blank idea slots and unselected status choices. A drawn outline cannot establish base position, holding amount, water behavior or stability.