This site is an official ODERSA site. Here is how to find out

The official domain

The address of this site ends inodersa.org. Every service of the association lives on a subdomain of odersa.org and nowhere else. If the address in your browser bar does not end in odersa.org, this site is not ours.

Free, and no account

Everything is open straight away. No registration, no account, no password, no subscription, no advertising. Nothing is reserved for those who pay, since nothing is paid for.

No data collected

This site does not follow you: no tracker, no tracking cookie, no measurement tool built into these pages, and nothing measured on your device. Our host counts requests in aggregate, as any server that answers does: a total, never a profile. You do not have to take our word for it: open your browser’s developer tools, go to the Network tab, and reload the page. You will see the full list of what the site asks for. Everything comes from odersa.org, nothing goes anywhere else.

Freely licensed content

The content is published under the CC BY 4.0 licence. You may copy it, translate it, print it and redistribute it, for your lessons as for your family, on the single condition that you credit ODERSA.

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My boards

Build your communication board, name it, save it on this device, and export it to a backup file that you keep.

Information

What you build here, boards, added words and photographs included, stays in the memory of this browser, on this device, under keys that begin withspeak.. Nothing is sent.

The exported file is the real backup: a browser that is cleaned out erases its memory.

For example, “Morning” or “Shopping”.

Choose symbols

Each symbol chosen here joins the board being built, above.

Type a word, such as “drink”, to find its symbol.

Add a word of your own

A word missing from the catalogue can be added with a photograph taken on this device.

For example, “Teddy” or a person’s name.
Optional. Left empty, the voice says the word written on the cell.
The photograph is resized and kept on this device: it is not sent anywhere.

My saved boards

Opening a board brings it back into the workshop above, to be changed.

Import a backup file

A file exported from Words Within Reach adds its boards to those already saved on this device. Any other file is refused, and nothing is changed.

The filemes-planches-speak.jsondownloaded with the “Export” button.

The backup file

The “Export the backup file” button downloads a file namedmes-planches-speak.json. This is the file you keep, send to someone close, or open on another device.

Importing this file adds the boards it contains: it never replaces the ones already saved. A board with the same name arrives alongside, never on top.

A file that is not a Words Within Reach backup is refused, and nothing is changed.

When this device keeps nothing

On some devices, the memory keeps nothing from one visit to the next. The tool stays usable during the session: building a board, trying it and printing it all remain possible, and the tool says so. What is lost is the memory from one time to the next: coming back later, the board is no longer there.

The answer is the exported file: it is kept off this device, and it can be re-imported at any time, on the same device or on another.

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