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As someone also with dyslexia, I thought it was pretty good. Yes it is not that extreme but that is the point of the piece I think.
by Arzh 11y ago
As someone also with dyslexia, I thought it was pretty good. Yes it is not that extreme but that is the point of the piece I think.
- geon 11y agoYes. It's just my interpretation of something I heard.
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- condescendence 11y agoAre you on LSD?
- 205guy 11y agoWell, isn't that just burying the lede? I applaud the application of technology, but sometimes I think the neophyte approach, combined with the amplification of the web, can be more detrimental than helpful as intended. Sorry to be uncharitable, but here is how you could've written a more honest introduction: I heard a friend with dyslexia say that letters just jump around for her. Without asking for details, this reminded me that I had a hammer called JavaScript, and this looked like a nail to pound. So I wrote some quick code with made-up parameters and copied info from Wikipedia for cachet. I didn't bother to get any further feedback from dyslexics about this, so it is purely my folk-interpretation of a condition I don't really know about. I then uploaded it to HN to get some feedback, but I still didn't bother explaining what I did or why.
- 27182818284 11y agoI enjoyed the demonstration because although I could still read it I could notice that I had to spend extra effort to do so.
- amadeusw 11y agoExactly. I think most of us see this project as a hyperbole. Dyslexia does not make you literally see scrambled letters, but make it similarly difficult to read. I found the long and uncommon ones like "phonetical" especially difficult. To people with dyslexia: are shorter and more common words easier to comprehend, just like in this piece?
- slg 11y agoFor me the shorter words are actually harder because they are more similar to other words and they often don't attract focus in a sentence so your mind spends less time on them.