For towns & public counters

Communication access
for every resident.

Town halls, libraries, DMVs, school registrars, hospital intake desks, courthouses — every resident who walks through the door has the right to be heard. AgeWell Alliance, through TinkyTown, builds the ADA Title II-aligned access points that finally make that real at the counter — for stroke survivors, AAC users, people with aphasia, autistic individuals, and every community living with voice impairment. Validated by the Connecticut State ADA Coordinator. Deployed across 151 Connecticut municipalities.

Effective communication is already a civil right.

Under ADA Title II, every state and local government program, service, and activity must be accessible to people with disabilities — including disabilities that affect how a person communicates. There is no size exemption. From a small-town clerk's window to a metropolitan courthouse, the obligation is the same.

The ADA promised effective communication for every American. We help towns finish what it started — for the resident renewing a license, the parent registering a child, the survivor at a public hearing, the caregiver at intake.

We're not here to scare clerks. We're here to help them serve every resident with dignity — and to give them the documentation that shows it.

151
Connecticut municipalities deployed through TinkyTown
Validated by the
CT State ADA Coordinator
Reviewed and directed to municipalities statewide
ADA Title II
aligned by design
Every interaction documented for the record

Public hearings, made hearable

Residents living with voice impairment have the same right to participate in public proceedings as anyone else. We help towns set up the access — symbol-to-speech, AAC-friendly intake, accessible captions — so participation actually happens, and the record reflects it.

Real access points, where the counter is.

Speech access can't live in a policy binder. It has to live at the desk on the day a resident shows up. TinkyTown is the working access — the QR sticker on the counter, the symbol-to-speech board behind it, the staff workflow that makes it routine instead of an exception.

At the public counter

A QR sticker on the counter opens TinkyTown on the resident's phone. Symbol and category-based communication boards let them tell the clerk what they need — license renewal, permit, dog tag, voter registration — without having to speak the way the counter expects.

At intake desks

Hospital intake. School registration. Police front desk. A nonspeaking visitor or a stroke survivor can complete the intake in symbols, taps, or AAC — and the staff side sees it as plain text. Nothing about the form changes; the path to filling it does.

In public hearings

Town councils, board of education meetings, public comment periods. Residents who can't deliver a verbal comment in real time can still participate — through symbol-to-speech and AAC-friendly intake — and the record reflects their voice the same as anyone else's.

In documentation

Every interaction can be logged for the town's ADA Title II record — what was requested, what was provided, when. Not as a compliance burden — as the trail that shows the access actually happened, on the day it was needed.

Five steps. One simple path.

We come in alongside your team — not as a vendor handing you software, but as a coalition partner setting up real access with you, for the residents you serve.

01
Walk the counters with you
We sit at the desk, watch a real intake, and map where access is breaking down today. No homework for your staff.
02
Set up the access points
QR stickers at the counter. Symbol-to-speech boards routed to the right intake. AAC-friendly forms where they're needed.
03
Train staff with dignity first
Short, plain-language training. How to spot when a resident needs the access. How to offer it without making anyone feel othered.
04
Document for the ADA record
Every access provided is logged for the town's Title II file. The trail is the proof — for residents, for auditors, for the town's own peace of mind.
05
Stay alongside you
Updates, new boards, new languages of access — and a coalition partner you can call when something changes at the counter.
Where it's already running

Connecticut went first. All 151 municipalities.

After review by the Connecticut State ADA Coordinator, AgeWell Alliance's communication access work was directed to municipalities across the state. Today the access points are live in town halls, libraries, and registrars from Greenwich to Stonington.

Your town can be next — and you don't have to figure it out alone. The path is already cut. We walk it with you.

Bring this to your town.

If you're a town clerk, a library director, a town manager, an ADA coordinator, or a council member — the door is open. The work is happening now. Come stand with us, and let's set up communication access at your counter.

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