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Widgit Rebus symbols in the ISAAC Website
Communication Does Matter to ISAAC and Widgit SoftwareCate and Tina Detheridge of Widgit Software, have been working in collaboration with ISSAC (International Society for Augmentation and Alternative Communication) to help symbolise their website using the pioneering Widgit Rebus Symbols. ISAAC now has full symbol Widgit Rebus summaries on every page, so that every child and adult with communication difficulties can understand and use the website. Widgit Software was proud to assist ISAAC with this specific project - making their website accessible to every child and adult with communication difficulties. |
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Cate Detheridge, Accessibility Team Leader, has supported this project all the way, she says: “This is the world’s first inclusive mainstream website that is supported with symbols. We have already had fantastic feedback from people using the site and as a result of this success we are now listed as sponsors of the ISAAC site.”
ISAAC’s Chief Executive, Clare Bonnell says: ”Thank you very much Tina, Cate…for all the work you did to make Rebus summaries available to visitors of the site who communicate with this language. It is indeed a first. The Widgit team’s enthusiasm for people needing AAC and for ISAAC is inspiring.”
On entering the website, www.isaac-online.org scroll to ‘Choose symbol system to display’ and select the preferred symbol system – Widgit Rebus, Blissymbols or PCS from Mayer-Johnson. By clicking the symbol link, headings and links featured on each web page are automatically symbolised.
For Example:
Symbols often make a massive difference to communication and understanding. Symbol based language and communication has been developed over many years and has a visual structure that supports different parts of speech.
The Widgit Rebus symbols have developed over the past 20 years and are
used in many countries worldwide. The symbols are clean, concise and
suitable right across the spectrum of age and ability.
There are over 7000 images in both colour and black & white covering
a vocabulary of over 20,000 words. This vocabulary is continually being
extended and gives people access to a wide range of topics and curricular
areas.
To access the ISAAC website go to www.isaac-online.org
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