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It uses justification and hyphenation, which is a deal-breaker for me (and presumably people with dyslexia, too). But I guess that's why it's on GitHub. :)
by kmfrk 16y ago
It uses justification and hyphenation, which is a deal-breaker for me (and presumably people with dyslexia, too). But I guess that's why it's on GitHub. :)
- beaumartinez 16y agoWell, that's a deal-maker for me, that's what I've been wishing the Readability team integrate into their service for ages!
- Groxx 16y agohttps://github.com/Groxx/wikipedia-beautifier https://github.com/Groxx/wikipedia-beautifier Don't have Git installed, so I can't delete the hyphenator.js file, but there ya go :) Delete it when you download it, and load it as an unpacked extension.
- unwind 16y agoI think it would be interesting if you were to expand a bit on this, it's not obvious to me why either justification or hyphenation makes it harder for you. Making more people aware of such "side effects" of visual design might make help designs improve. I'm thinking a bit about the "awareness" of color blindness as being related, here.
- Groxx 16y agoMy reasoning is as follows: Ragged-edges make lines easier to distinguish. You don't lose your vertical location as easily, and it aids in remembering the physical location of words because every paragraph looks different. I seem to have very good location memory with what I read, though, so I may be abnormal in that part. Varying space width means variation in reading words. Less variation is less cognitive cost. Hyphenation means breaking a word in half, so you have to hold an incomplete word in your memory until you resume the next line. Useful to prevent huge gaps in paragraphs, but more = higher cognitive cost. In summary: they're bad for my speed-reading. Very bad.