Symbols and sounds served

Fonts

The two fonts of the ODERSA system are embedded in the site, in woff2, with no call to any outside service.

• Public Sans, from the General Services Administration of the United States, derived from Libre Franklin by Impallari Type, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2015 The Public Sans Project Authors. The licence text, as it is delivered upstream.
• Source Serif 4, from Adobe, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, Reserved Font Name “Source”. Copyright 2014-2023 Adobe. The licence text, as it is delivered upstream.

The Open Font License requires the copyright notice and the licence text to accompany redistributed font files: the two texts above are therefore served by this site, next to the fonts themselves, and not merely linked. The licences are recorded from the files in licences.json.

Images

Every photograph is freely licensed, embedded in the site, and its licence was recorded from the file’s own page at the source. The list below is written at every build from the verified register: an image served without a traced licence stops the build from completing.

• appareil-a-cases.jpg: A cell-based communication device. It is an object that a supporting adult prepares, fills and hands over: the gesture counts as much as the equipment. Photograph by Poule (talk), under CC BY-SA 3.0, file page on Wikimedia Commons. 500 × 640 pixels, 94 KB.
• appareil-et-contacteur.jpg: A communication device photographed with its switch, a large button connected by a cable. On this kind of equipment, a single press confirms the choice being made. Photograph by Poule (talk), under CC BY-SA 3.0, file page on Wikimedia Commons. 960 × 753 pixels, 181 KB.
• cahier-communication.jpg: A communication book: a picture, a word, a place that does not move. Photograph by Poule, under CC BY-SA 3.0, file page on Wikimedia Commons. 960 × 613 pixels, 200 KB.
• planche-gare-zagreb.jpg: A communication board at Zagreb railway station, available to anyone who cannot ask out loud. It never runs out of battery. Photograph by Mnalis, under CC BY 4.0, file page on Wikimedia Commons. 1280 × 591 pixels, 246 KB.
• planche-parc-jeux.jpg: A communication board next to a playground: beside the sandpit, not in a drawer. Photograph by Chenspec, under CC BY-SA 4.0, file page on Wikimedia Commons. 960 × 723 pixels, 278 KB.
• planche-parc-public.jpg: A communication board installed in a public park: the same boards, in the open air, for everyone. Photograph by Chenspec, under CC BY-SA 4.0, file page on Wikimedia Commons. 960 × 723 pixels, 356 KB.
• systeme-de-symboles.jpg: A printed symbol system: the drawing carries the meaning, the written word removes the doubt. Photograph by Joxerrazabala, under CC BY-SA 3.0, file page on Wikimedia Commons. 500 × 767 pixels, 66 KB.
• tableau-de-communication.jpg: A communication board and its cards: a picture, a word, a stable position. Photograph by Eddau, under CC0, file page on Wikimedia Commons. 960 × 1280 pixels, 216 KB.

The design system

The layout, the colours, the typography and the trust banner come from ODERSA’s design system, shared by all its services. The logic of its official banner is taken from the U.S. Web Design System, in the public domain, and the plainness of its band from GOV.UK. The academic red is the colour of the system, the same across all the association’s services.

What we do not use, and why

Several symbol sets that are widely used in augmentative and alternative communication carry a non-commercial clause, including the best known of them. We do not use them, even though the association is non-profit: a non-commercial clause would stop some of those who re-use our work (a social enterprise, a publisher, a paid service) from taking up our boards. The detailed list of the sets ruled out and of their clause is on the page the symbols.

The tools

The site is entirely static. It is produced by a generator written in Node, with no installed dependency, and it loads no external library into your browser. The voice is the one on your device. There is therefore no third party to credit for the running of the service, and no third party your data could reach.