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Add symbolized content to your website with Insite.

Insite allows you to create online content supported with Widgit Symbols.

Insite is Widgit's unique online content creation tool, which gives access to the most up- to-date Widgit Symbol database. The Widgit Symbol database currently holds more than 10,000 symbols, which provide visual representations for more than 40,000 words. Insite currently supports 16 languages, with the plan to release more translated languages during 2011.

Using Insite is similar to using a traditional content editor, with one exciting difference! As the text for the online content is typed into Insite , the Widgit Symbols which visually represent the meaning of the text appear above the text on screen.

Insite allows you to choose alternative symbols and change symbol size and colour, and then publish the symbol- supported content straight to your website, learning platform, blog or wiki.

You can even choose whether to provide symbol support for all of your online content, or whether to provide visual support for struggling readers with symbol-supported sections!

Using Insite

The interface for Insite sits within your existing content management system(CMS), blog or wiki, and allows easy access, and simple usage to a wide range of users, allowing everyone involved to create symbol-supported content.

The Insite content editor has all the basic formatting functions that you would expect from a content editor, with the added functionality of smart symbolisation. For example, when you write the sentence "I drink a drink", Insite knows which symbol to use and will place the verb 'man drinking' symbol over the first 'drink', and the noun 'glass' symbol over the second use of the word 'drink'.

In essence, Insite is a new "content editor" plugin which can replace or work alongside your existing content editor. Maintenance is easy as none of the symbols are stored on your servers, saving you space and bandwidth. And Widgit's symbolisation servers are constantly updated, meaning that your website and its contents are never more than two hours from the latest Widgit symbols.

Widgit Symbols

The ever-expanding Widgit Symbol Set has been developed over the past 25 years in partnership with communication and language experts and now contains more than 10,000 symbols, which cover a vocabulary of over 40,000 words.
The Widgit Symbol Set is designed specifically to support independence in reading, writing and communication. The simply drawn, colourful symbols each illustrate a single concept, in a clear and concise way, and cover a range of topics making them suitable for all ages and abilities.

The Widgit Symbols follow a schematic structure, meaning that there are ‘rules’ for the way in which they are formed.

Widgit Symbols are used all over the world, supporting 17 languages and giving readers of all literacy levels greater access to information and increasing communication.

Licensing

Bridges is the exclusive Canadian source for Insite.

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