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Need help reading or listening to Dewis Cymru?

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About ReachDeck

Getting started with ReachDeck

Getting ReachDeck to read the site to me

Getting ReachDeck to make the text bigger

Links to other websites

Using ReachDeck to translate Dewis Cymru into another language

Using ReachDeck to read to you in another language

Using Reachdeck to make Dewis Cymru easier to read

Changing the settings on the ReachDeck toolbar

Further information

Glossary


ReachDeck

About ReachDeck

As part of our commitment to make Dewis Cymru as accessible as we can, we’ve added something called ReachDeck, which helps people who might find it difficult to read the information on Dewis Cymru. This might include people with dyslexia, people with literacy difficulties, people for whom English is not their first language, or people with mild visual impairments.

ReachDeck has lots of useful functions to make it easier to use Dewis Cymru, but the most important things it can do are:

  • It can read the website to you, in over 60 different languages;
  • It can translate the website into over 110 languages; and
  • It works on smartphones, tablets, PCs and Macs.

Getting started with ReachDeck

To open ReachDeck, click on the 'Llisten and translate' button or on the orange symbol with the speaker phone, which appears in the top right of every page:

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When you click on either of these, a menu bar with some more symbols appear, like this:

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All the things ReachDeck can do are controlled by these symbols.

Getting ReachDeck to read the site to me

ReachDeck reads website content out loud in a high quality, human-sounding voice.

No matter what page of the website you are on, just click on the pointing finger in the menu bar, and ReachDeck will start reading that page to you, and it will highlight the text it’s reading.

Read

Like this:

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Or, if you prefer, you can use your mouse pointer to highlight some text, then click on the triangle and ReachDeck will just read that bit of text.

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Using ReachDeck to make the text bigger

You can also tell ReachDeck to display the text it’s reading in a larger font. Just click on the magnifying glass with the letter ‘A’ in the middle:

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The sentence being read aloud then appears at the top of the screen like this:

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Links to other websites

Dewis Cymru includes lots of links to other websites, to help people find the information they need as easily as possible. However, if you’re using Dewis Cymru with ReachDeck and you use a link to get to another website, Reachdeck will not be able to translate or read that website to you.

Using ReachDeck to translate Dewis Cymru into another language

If you want to read Dewis Cymru in a different language, click on the translation logo (two pages containing different symbols) and select the language you want. There are over 100+ to choose from!

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Any language in the list that displays a speaker symbol can be read aloud. The languages without the speaker symbol displayed cannot be read aloud but will change the content into the language chosen.

Lang

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When you move to a different page, the language may go back to English at first. But ReachDeck will translate it into the language you’ve selected within seconds!

Using ReachDeck to read to you in another language

ReachDeck can translate text into over 100+ languages. For more than 50 of these, ReachDeck can read the translated text to you as well! Just select the language you want then follow the instructions detailed in 'Getting Reachdeck to read the site to me'.

ReachDeck translation is available in a number of languages as shown below.

Translation with accompanying voice

Afrikaans

Arabic

Basque Spanish

Catalan Spanish

Chinese (Mandarin)

Colombian Spanish

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English American

English Australian

English Indian

English Irish

English Scottish

English UK

English Welsh

European French

European Spanish

Finnish

Flemish

French Canadian

Galician

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Mexican Spanish

Norwegian

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Portuguese Brazilian

Romanian

Russian

Scottish Gaelic

Slovakian

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Welsh

Translation only

Albanian

Armenian

Azerbaijani

Belarusian

Bengali

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Burmese

Cebuano

Chichewa

Croatian

Esperanto

Estonian

Filipino

Georgian

Gujarati

Haitian Creole

Hausa

Hmong

Igbo

Javanese

Kannada

Kazakh

Khmer

Lao

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Malagasy

Malay

Malayalam

Maltese

Maori

Marathi

Mongolian

Nepalese

Punjabi

Serbian

Sesotho

Sinhala

Slovenian

Somali

Sudanese

Swahili

Tajiki

Tamil

Telugu

Urdu

Uzbek

Vietnamese

Yiddish

Yoruba

Zulu

Using Reachdeck to make Dewis Cymru easier to read

We’ve worked hard to make the appearance of Dewis as simple and clutter-free as we can. But we understand some people will still find it a bit too cluttered. So ReachDeck has two tools that can help.

‘Screenmask’ will highlight the text you’re reading by making the rest of the page darker. Click on the ‘screenmask’ symbol:

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Then you can move your mouse pointer down the screen, and it’ll make the bit you’re reading stand out more. It will add a reading pane that will move along with your mouse.

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Changing the settings on the ReachDeck toolbar

You can also adjust the toolbar to help better support your needs. By clicking on the cog symbol you can change the colours, voice speed, screenmask options, text size when magnified and more.

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Further information

The guidance above has been produced by the Dewis Cymru Team, and tries to provide simple instructions about how to use the main features of Dewis Cymru.

For further information or detailed guidance please contact ReachDeck:

Web: www.Reachdeck.com/uk/support

Email: support@Reachdeck.com

Tel: 0800 328 7910

If you’d like more information about Dewis Cymru then please visit ‘About Dewis’ or if you have a question please get in touch by using the ‘Contact us’ button on the homepage.

Glossary

Translation with accompanying voice

Language

Displayed on screen

Afrikaans

اAfrikaans

Arabic

یَّةِربَ َالع

Basque Spanish

euskara

Catalan Spanish

català

Chinese (Mandarin)

中文

Colombian (Spanish)

Español

Czech

český jazyk

Danish

Dansk

Dutch

Nederlands

English American

English US

English Australian

English AU

English IN

English IN

English Irish

English IE

English Scottish

English SC

English UK

English UK

English Welsh

English CY

European French

Français

European Spanish

Español

Finnish

Suomi

Flemish

Vlaams

French Canadian

Francais - CA

Galician

Galego

German

Deutsch

Greek

ελληνικά

Hebrew

עברית

Hindi

िही

Hungarian

magyar

Icelandic

Islenka

Indonesian

Indonesia

Irish

Gaeilge

Italian

Italiano

Korean

한국어

Mexican Spanish

Espanol - MX

Norwegian

Norsk

Persian

فارسی

Polish

Polski

Portuguese

Português

Portuguese Brazilian

Portugues BR

Romanian

limba română

Russian

русский язык

Scottish Gaelic

Gàidhlig na h-Alba

Slovakian

slovenčina

Swedish

Sverige

Thai

ไทย

Turkish

Türkçe

Ukrainian

українська мова

Welsh

Cymraeg

Translation only

Language

Displayed on screen

Albanian

shqipe

Armenian

Հայերեն

Azerbaijani

azərbaycan dili

Belarusian

беларуская мова

Bengali

বাংলা

Bosnian

Bosanski Jezik

Bulgarian

български език

Burmese

ြမနမ်ာ

Cebuano

Cebuano

Chichewa

Chichewa

Croatian

Hrvatski Jezik

Esperanto

Esperanto

Estonian

Eesti

Filipino

Pilipino

Georgian

ქართული

Gujarati

ગજુ રાતી

Haitian Creole

Kreyol Ayisyen

Hausa

س َوُھ َ

Hmong

Hmong

Igbo

Ásụ̀sụ̀

Javanese

Basa Jawa

Kannada

ಕನಡ

Kazakh

қазақ тілі

Khmer

ែខរ,

Lao

ພາສາລາວ

Latin

Latine

Latvian

latviešu valoda

Lithuanian

lietuvių kalba

Macedonian

македонски јазик

Malagasy

Malagasy

Malay

Bahasa Melayu

Malayalam

മലയാളം

Maltese

Malti

Maori

Māori

Marathi

मराठी

Mongolian

монгол

Nepalese

नेपाली

Punjabi

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Serbian

српски језик

Sesotho

Sesotho

Sinhala

ංහල

Slovenian

Slovenski Jezik<span style="font-family: &quot;Nirmala UI&quot;,sans-serifSlovenski Jezik

Somali

Soomaali

Sudanese

Basa Sunda

Swahili

Kiswahili

Tajiki

тоҷикӣ

Tamil

தழ்

Telugu

Telugu

Urdu

وُردُا

Uzbek

Oʻzbek

Vietnamese

Tiếng Việt

Yiddish

דישִיי

Yoruba

Ede Yorùbá

Zulu

isiZulu