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Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)
- kiba 6y agoDon't have dyslexia, but I am pretty bad at spelling and grammar(and no, no amount of reading will change my grammar). I can easily spot that I spelled a word wrong, but can't necessary spell. I been remedying this through anki and spaced repetition, but it's a slow process and my mind sometime switch to incorrect spellings anyway.
- pietroglyph 6y agoOut of curiosity, is English your native language?
- thrav 6y agoI’d be interested to know what someone with severe dyslexia thinks of this interpretation. I have a mild case (constantly flipping digits in numbers, but rarely struggling with words) and my experience is much more swearing I just read 1917 and then looking back and realizing it says 1971 and then having to read it again because I was so sure it was 1917. It’s true that the digits did jump around on me, but it’s not experienced as active motion, as portrayed here. It’s more that I see a false representation of what’s in the page. I think words aren’t an issue because my brain is good enough at picking the word from what’s there and context. It would be more like rendering the page with a few different Random letters swapped each time, rather than continuous movement of letters on the page.
- foopod 6y agoIt's almost like it needs eye tracking. Then swapping around letters while you aren't looking at them.
- totetsu 6y agolike with this. https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/ https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/
- smichel17 6y agoMaybe you could simulate this by asking the reader to highlight on the page as they read (another commenter with dyslexia mentioned using this strategy)? Then hold the words immediately before and after the end of the selection constant. And maybe instead of randomly shuffling letters, swap out whole words with likely mistakes (given the number of dyslexic people in these comments, you could probably start with no substitutions and crowd-source a list of actual mistakes. To prevent the visual motion of swapping words from being distracting, you could make all non-selected words be very low contrast with the background. And if you wanted to be really fancy, maybe you could only make selection persist for a certain amount of time or words, so one can't simply select the entire document to fix it in place.
- MH15 6y agoDigits move around for me a lot when I spend a bit of time with numbers. I have wondered if this is something I should get tested.
- toastal 6y agoI can't do phone numbers or OTP for the life of me. Part of the reason I got into programming is that I kept mixing up numbers in high school in the show-your-work phase that led me to the wrong answer saved by partial credit. I built programs on my TI-86 that would output each step of that phase and would meticulously write things down number by number.
- vhost- 6y agoI’m dyslexic and for me, it’s hard to explain what happens exactly, but basically a lot of words are improperly understood to be what they are by my brain. This leads me to think they are different words and then the context of the thing I’m reading is not right. So I re-read paragraphs a number of times, very slowly. Because of this, I read at 50ish wpm with around 40% comprehension. I usually use a text to speech or screen reader to get long reading done, but people never take dyslexics into account when they design things so that can be a pretty miserable experience
- rhacker 6y agoI don't have dyslexia, but I found the webpage pretty easy to read except for a few long words I didn't know. For those I just had to hover for a few more seconds. That being said - if I had to look at that every time I read, I would probably avoid reading for the rest of my life... so that is a challenge.
- caymanjim 6y agoThis seems like an exaggeration of the descriptions I've heard about dyslexia, in that letters move way too far. Another huge problem is that the first and last letters don't change, and I'm betting that for dyslexics, those anchor letters don't exist. With the anchor letters, I find this trivial to read. It barely slows me down at all. Studies have shown that most people can read fairly easily when the first and last letters of a word are fixed and the inner letters are scrambled. Given the difficulty that dyslexics have, I suspect this isn't a realistic simulation. It's an interesting idea. I appreciate the goal. I just don't know that this is anything like the real thing. I'm not sure it's possible to know what it's subjectively like.
- ludamad 6y agoI definitely didn't take it to be a simulation of the mechanics - but a rough feeling of what it's like to be taxed and burdened on something you're used to taking for granted
- caymanjim 6y agoI should note that I've played thousands of Scrabble and Boggle games. My brain may be particularly trained for comprehending this sort of thing. I'm also good at these sorts of word puzzles in general, and have a large vocabulary. So I'm biased in many ways.
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- disordinary 6y agoYeah, there's that well known demonstration that shows that it doesn't really matter the order of letters within a word as long as the first and last letters remain the same.
- Waterluvian 6y agoI recall that being debunked. Where the real effect was just “you have two letters that are correct so the corruption of each word is just much lower”
- AlexB138 6y agoSomewhat related; I have a lesser known disability which is related to dyslexia called dysgraphia[1]. For simplicity sake, I often describe it as "like dyslexia, but for output instead of input". Basically, it makes it very difficult to write legibly. Dysgraphia, and (the often accompanying) ADD, are part of why I initially got into computers. I would type much much more easily than I could write, so I would beg teachers to let me type assignments instead of writing by hand, which was significantly less common when I was young than it is today. In retrospect, it's a good part of how I ended up working in technology. Unfortunately it has, I think, also hampered my career. It makes it, as you can imagine, significantly more difficult to whiteboard. My whiteboarding either looks like something a child would produce, or requires immense focus (often both), completely separate from the engineering consideration, to produce what seems simple for most people. Inconspicuous disabilities are such a strange thing to live with. They're not evident, so I think it's difficult for people to relate to them. I really appreciate the effort that was put into making the linked site and I hope it makes it easier for people to understand the struggles some people deal with without most other people ever noticing. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia
- apex_sloth 6y agoThanks for your comment. In german both of these are usually group together, so it never occurred to me that in english they are separated categorizes. Even tho the word used "Legasthenie" means "reading weakness", it still is applied to both cases. As already was mentioned, there is a wide range of ways this can express itself. I have something called "phonological processing deficits" [1], which means that letters which sound similar k/g, d/t, b/p are hard to distinguishes for me. In reading this is not much of a problem, in writing it I have extra attention. In recent times I notices that I recognize misspelled words not on the letters/sounds involved, but rather on the overall shape/silhouette of the word, meaning the up and down of the letters. 1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21109251/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21109251/
- golem14 6y agoIt seems relatively easy to read known words, but almost impossible to read long, complicated ones (like typoglycemia). I can understand that learning to read with dyslexia is super frustrating... This is a great way to make people understand what dyslexia feels like. It would be amazing if we had something like that to understand what it’s like to be black in America...
- anonytrary 6y agoLetters don't just abruptly appear to change to another valid letter. I like to describe it as each letter oscillating in and out of different letter eigenstates, appearing to smoothly interpolate between various letters. Once you look directly at a letter, you collapse the letter to the correct state. The letters are like 98% in the correct state, but contain small components of other letters, giving a breathing/morphing effect like what you would see on shrooms.
- slg 6y agoDyslexic here. Dyslexia is not a single condition. The only way we define dyslexia is difficulty reading caused by the way the brain processes text so not something like poor eyesight or low intelligence. Therefore by definition this is not what a large percentage of dyslexics experience because there is no common experience. Maybe this is how some dyslexics experience reading, but I am not one of them and I don't think I have ever actually heard another dyslexic describe literally seeing letters changing as they look at them. It is often more that things seem to change when you aren't looking. For me personally, I have no problem with letters. A "b" is never a "d" or whatever stereotypical explanations you might hear about dyslexia. My problem is with entire words. I will often substitute one word for another while reading (and writing). I can go back and might still read that incorrect word. But I don't think I ever really "see" that incorrect word. It is more that my brain is lazy and isn't actually reading, it is just assuming what is supposed to be there and that assumption is occasionally wrong.
- vertbhrtn 6y agoI think our brains just picks all the letters in a word, mixes them up together into something like "e:a:l:p = 1:1:1:2", adds context and does a lookup into a dictionary of such "letters mix" -> meaning pairs. If this is correct, dyslexia is when the brain can't quickly estimate the "amount" of each letter in a word, and the incorrect proportions result into an incorrect lookup.
- slg 6y agoThat analogy is close but doesn't quite match my experience because there doesn't have to be much overlap in letters in a word. I went back and reread a few of my most recent HN comments looking for an example (my condition impacts both reading and writing). There are some easy to understand mistakes like replacing "went" with "want". However I also used "because" in place of "beyond" in one comment. Those two words start with the same two letters, but they are completely different after that and are relatively distinct visually. An algorithmic analogy I would use would be fuzzy matching. Most people's brains are set to look for exact matches (or fuzzy matching with a super high match criteria). When one part of their brain needs access to a word, the other part of their brain will supply the exact match. My brain is using fuzzy matching with the confidence level set mistakenly low. When part of my brain needs a word, the first match returned is occasionally a false positive match. The rest of my brain just accepts it and continues onto the next requested word. The match quality isn't a traditionally fuzzy matching algorithm like Levenshtein distance. It is heavily weighted to both the start of the word and the expectedness of the word in the given context. The latter makes it very difficult for me to immediately notice my own written mistakes since I am already primed to expect what I intended to write and not necessarily what I actually wrote.
- rambojazz 6y agoHow accurate is this?
- ciarannolan 6y agoI've always wondered if that special Dyslexia font on Kindles actually helps. Can anyone in this thread with Dyslexia enlighten me?
- AnonC 6y agoWikipedia says that there is no research showing that the commercial font called Dyslexia is useful for people with dyslexia (in improving readability). I also see free and open source clones like OpenDyslexic. [1] I presume this wouldn’t help much either. What else can web developers and/or content writers do to make content better readable or more easier to comprehend (even if it’s by easy guessing)? [1]: https://www.opendyslexic.org/ https://www.opendyslexic.org/
- gnicholas 6y agoYou're right that the research on these fonts is mixed. After receiving many feature request emails from users, I offered OpenDyslexic in my browser plugin that helps people read more easily (and which has been picked up as an assistive technology for people with dyslexia). I think the reason these fonts are popular with some people with dyslexia is that they are heavier (thicker lines) and have more space between characters. For some people, including people with visual impairments, these features make reading easier. This is especially the case if the alternative is some super-thin font that is dark grey, against a light grey background. I've seen discussions in the WCAG (web accessibility) community and other community around how to make reading easier for neurodiverse populations. Unfortunately, most of what I've seen has been along the lines of "don't use big words" and "use short/simple sentences". While this is all well and good for some uses cases, it is not practical advice if your app is an ebook reader or your website talks about complex financial instruments. Fortunately, there are some layout-related things that you can do to make text more inclusively designed, and you can check out the Center for Applied Special Technologies' website for an interactive demo. [1] Full disclosure, one of the technologies they feature was created by my startup, BeeLine Reader. Let me know if you want to try out our JS on your site — contact info is in my profile. PS: the commercial font you reference is "Dyslexie", not "Dyslexia". A common typo, I'm sure! 1: http://demo.cast.org/cisl-demo/ http://demo.cast.org/cisl-demo/
- surround 6y agoOn a related note, there are fonts designed to make reading easier for people with dislexia, such as OpenDyslexic. https://www.opendyslexic.org/ https://www.opendyslexic.org/
- airstrike 6y agoAnd also famously Comic Sans, though I don't know if there's actual research supporting this popular claim
- gnicholas 6y agoI work in the field of dyslexia and always find these simulations be interesting because they are in conflict with the so-called prevailing wisdom regarding dyslexia here in the US. Largely due to research out of Yale, there is an entrenched belief among many dyslexia experts that dyslexia is not experienced visually, but is rather a phonological condition. However, if you ask 10 people with dyslexia whether their condition has a visual component, you will get at least 4 people (and quite likely more) who say yes. Websites like this reinforce the understanding that dyslexia does – at least for some people — have a visual component. Fortunately, the international community seems to be less allegiant to the Yale research. They view dyslexia as a set of conditions that can be more visual for some and more phonological for others. And there are also many practitioners (assistive technologists, occupational therapists, tutors) in the US who share this broader view of dyslexia. But it remains baffling to me that so many of the "experts" in the US are unwilling to listen to actual people with dyslexia who state in no uncertain terms that they experience dyslexia in a visual way. The reason this has come up as a frustration for me (as someone who works in the field but does not have dyslexia) is that my startup's technology is visual in nature. The tech I built [1] has become quite popular among people with dyslexia — despite not having been created with this audience in mind. I always assumed that experts/advocates would be happy to have another tool that could help people with dyslexia. I never imagined that there could be such a strong orthodoxy of "dyslexia isn't visual, it's phonological" could exist. This website, and the comments in this thread, provide damning proof to the contrary. 1: http://www.beelinereader.com/education http://www.beelinereader.com/education
- avianlyric 6y agoThis is interesting, I’m Dyslexic, but wouldn’t consider my experience to have a visual component (or I don’t think of any visual component as being a notable part of my experience). However I do find tools like yours very useful, it makes reading much easier for me. It definitely helps with line transitions, which I do have slight difficulty with, but isn’t the primary cause of reading comprehension issues for me. Instead most reading comprehension issues are my brain simply ignoring or replacing words completely without me realising.
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- stevage 6y ago> Wouldn't it be possible to do it i....y on a website with Javascript? What is that missing word?
- stevage 6y agoOh...interactively.
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- youeseh 6y agoIf I can read this website with relative ease, does that mean that I have dyslexia? :-/
- exabyte 6y agoI recommend reading the book "Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It" by Matthew Seidenberg. It starts off with the history of writing, which I actually have to go back and re-read because it's such a crazy evolution. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. I can't imagine getting thrown back into the stone age and having to figure out a way to communicate ideas. It also talks about the fascinating ways that the brain uses different modalities to converge on meaning - really made me thought a lot about machine learning algorithms. It refers to a lot of well-designed studies with results that provide valuable insights into the inner workings of the brain. It also talks a lot about dyslexia and how it is a rather broadly defined disorder. I'm pretty sure I could be considered dyslexic based simply on how poor of a reader I am. This also, however, could explain why I did better with math and science where you are doing yourself a great disservice to trying to skim the texts. I read that shit at the pace of a snail, but hey, maybe that allowed me to process the concepts better.
- yoav 6y agoFor me letters rarely move around, but words will move or disappear. Even then though they don’t constantly shift, it’ll just not be there and then a minute later it’s there. My problem with numbers is that they add themselves together and move around. So I might see something like: - 22 - 376 - 4021 As: - 242 - 367 - 4022 Which makes things like long division impossible or writing out my credit card number in an online checkout take 5-10 minutes
- wrnr 6y agoI appreciate the effort but it focuses only on the disadvantages of dyslexia. Their is good evidence that dyslexia an other learning-disabilities are a neurological tradeoff between short and long Cortical Minicolumns, where dyslexics have on average fewer and shorter column that are thicker, have less connection, but that reach farther. Sort of like the difference between GPU and CPU. Maybe we need a tool to showcase the advantage of interconnected reasoning and narrative skills instead of just focusing on the negative aspects.
- apex_sloth 6y agoThank you for your comment. This led me to reading about it and discovering some interesting research on this topic!
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago> discovering some interesting research on this topic! Please feel free to share :D
- apex_sloth 6y agoI first found the book "The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain", which in turn talks about the spacing between minicolumns in the brain. So looking for these terms yeilds some intressting stuff, for example this: https://dept.wofford.edu/neuroscience/neuroseminar/pdfspring2010/autism&deslexia-minicolumn.pdf https://dept.wofford.edu/neuroscience/neuroseminar/pdfspring... https://corticalchauvinism.com/2016/12/12/dyslexia-and-autism-cognitive-profiles-at-the-tail-ends-of-the-same-spectrum/ https://corticalchauvinism.com/2016/12/12/dyslexia-and-autis...
- wrnr 6y agoYes, The Dyslexic Advantage is a good start, it's where I first encountered the science.
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- chis_ 6y agoAnother form of dyslexia is meres-irlen syndrome, such that the text can ripple, blur, or white-spaces move about. My partner said the visual experience from this video[1] is close to what she experiences when trying to read text. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FARizLljRkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FARizLljRkc
- rorykoehler 6y agoI think I had a form of this as a child. Words would not e arranged on a straight line on the page but would be too high above the baseline or too low. I haven't suffered this illusion since I was ~10 years old or so.
- globular-toast 6y agoI still find it pretty easy to read. I'm quite sceptical about dyslexia. Reading needs practice like anything else.
- greggman3 6y agoTangentially related Chrome devtools now tries to simulate various vision issues https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/03/devtools?utm_source=devtools#vision-deficiences https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/03/devtools?u... So maybe your designers with their tiny thin fonts can learn some compassion for us poor sighted folk.
- Guy2020 6y agoI have dyslexia. The best way I can explain it is that when I read, it's more like I'm sampling from a probability distribution than actually seeing what's on the page. This is why I have difficulty spelling too...because I'm not sure which way something is spelled, i.e., when I sample from the spelling distribution, multiple competing items come out and I don't know which one is the correct one. This website isn't accurate for me per say...but I guess it does capture the "hazy" feeling when I read. I do believe us dyslexics have significantly different brains. I get along with dyslexics more than neurotypicals. We seem to have a strange bond. I suppose we're more "abstract" thinkers...in the sense that we are used to reasoning about spaces instead of particular instances...owing to the probabilistic nature of our minds...but maybe I'm using the wrong language here.
- sam_goody 6y agoThis has been on HN several times [1], [2]. I highly recommend that you skim through the other thread. I found, as someone who deals with kids with dyslexia, that the insights helped me better understand and deal with them. Also, understanding the different types of dyslexia helped me organize some contradictions I had heard. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226676 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11218677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11218677
- antimora 6y agoI am dyslexic. I don't still cannot recall the full alphabet in the right order. Does anyone else have the same issue?
- cromulent 6y agoPrevious lengthly discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226676
- dogma1138 6y agoAm I the only one that has no major problem reading this?
- kilian 6y agoIt's good to realize "dyslexia" is different for different people, with a subset of them seeing "dancing letters" like this visualization shows. It's still incredibly worthwhile to experience visualizations like this if only to vaguely understand what it's like. I implemented this particular vizualisation into Polypane so you can run it on any website and from what I experienced with people with dyslexia, there are definitely people that don't see a difference between this on or off.
- willejs 6y agoPrevious discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11218677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11218677
- mystcb 6y agoInteresting! I have to admit, I do look at that and think that it is a large exaggeration - however that is acknowledged in other thread here. On the other side, I suffer from migraines (the ones that give you auras and take you out for days), and the visualisation of the letters changing is exactly how words look when I try and read text during my aura phase. I am going to have to borrow this site to explain to my doctor what I see here, as this is probably the most accurate representation of the effect I have seen. (TL;DR: Thank you!) Now I need to look away, because the effect is causing my vision to go a little funny! :)
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y agoI used to have migraines with auras as well; in my case, it started with a blind spot somewhere in my cone of vision that would gradually grow, sometimes even covering my entire field of view except for a very tiny point I was looking at. The funny thing is, sometimes, I would still be perfectly capable of reading. I didn't see the text, or at least didn't perceive it, but apparently it still reached the parts of my brain responsible for interpreting writing. If I remember correctly, there's even some people who have this as a permanent condition, that is, are completely blind but can still read text even though they don't even see it. It's quite weird, honestly, and if it hadn't been for the fear of actual migraine that would follow the aura distracting me, I imagine the experience itself would have been quite uncomfortable on its own. Another interesting effect was that in the days after a strong migraine, my vision would stay messed up and start to get weirdly distorted whenever I tried reading something, which might be quite similar to what dyslexia feels like, at least for those cases where it's more on the visual side. I've always found all of this incredibly fascinating, as it goes to show just how complex the human brain is and how it can malfunction and react to internal and external influences.
- devxpy 6y agoI wonder if tts readers like google assistant's "read it" feature improve this situation. At least for me, having 2 sources of information greatly increases the degree of comprehension and reduces eye fatigue.
- meigwilym 6y ago> With the anchor letters, I find this trivial to read. It barely slows me down at all Not unfair, but you've had a lifetime of non-dyslexic reading to perfect this skill. It may be exaggerated, but I found it interesting to see the difficulties that dyslexics have to put up with. I really empathise with children trying to learn to read with this condition.
- k__ 6y agoI'm just a very slow reader, have to read word by word. I'm 35, is there anything to fix that? I feel kinda bad about it, because I'm a professional writer.
- zonovar 6y agoI have the same problem and I trying to tackle it bit following a few tricks from speed readers. The main point as far as I can see is to stop your inner voice. You can play classical music while reading (with no lyrics) so that it drowns out your internal voice. Also saying random words to yourself, chew a gum, or counting is used to override your brain from reading back the words in your head. Hope this can help you.
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago> The main point as far as I can see is to stop your inner voice. I just tried this while reading your comment and... I just can't xD I'm even listening to music in the background, but my brain just blocks that out the moment I start reading.
- zonovar 6y agoI know! It's a struggle and it takes a very long time. I'm still practicing too...
- gnicholas 6y agoI created this [1] to help people read more quickly, and it's won awards from Stanford and the United Nations. Try it out, and if it works for you I'm happy to shoot you a free pass (contact info in profile). 1: http://www.beelinereader.com http://www.beelinereader.com
- DarkWiiPlayer 6y agoJust a random dumb idea: this could likely be made much more freaky (and maybe more realistic?) with an eye-tracker and possibly some letter morphing to hide the actual changing from the reader, seems to me, would more closely resemble what people with dyslexia here in this threat describe.
- zipotm 6y agoBelieve or not, I faced that for ~30 minitues after whole day of coding... it's like combining and switching everything, from up and down, left and right without any order...
- beefield 6y agoReading all the comments I can't help appreciating two observations: 1. How vastly differently we experience the world 2. How little our experience resembles what there actually is outside. That brain of ours seems to be a real little f*cker what comes to creating an illusion that we observe some kind of objective reality. I need to keep that in mind.
- _ek94 6y agoAs a diagnosed dyslexic, this website feels nothing like what reading is like for me. It might be representative of some dyslexic experience, but certainly not mine.
- becausecombi 6y agoI could still read the ad titles. Goes to show that there's nothing that marketing can't solve!
- jp57 6y agoI’m waiting for the site that’ll let you experience what it’s like to have ADHD. Oh wait. That’s Twitter.
- QUFB 6y agoOn the same theme, there are several videos on Youtube related to schizophrenia. This is a particularly frightening one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lHuGMbscU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lHuGMbscU
- rudolph9 6y agoI wish sites would stop forcing overriding the user default font or a least render nicely with their custom font override. I use the [OpenDyslexic][1] typeface which really helps but I’d say about 50% of sites I visit have custom fonts and css rules dependent on their custom font. This is particularly frustrating when viewing GCP or AWS support docs. I get the lack of accessibility on marketing oriented sites but support docs for major could providers should render coherently with an alternative font! [https://www.opendyslexic.org/ https://www.opendyslexic.org/]: 1
- manjalyc 6y agoThis sounds like a problem a simple extension would trivially solve, I might write one up and publish it later today when I have some free time. I’ll edit this comment when I do. Edit: Should've googled first, there seems to be plenty of extensions that solve exactly this issue.
- rudolph9 6y agoWhat exact issue does it solve? Here is a screenshot of what it looks like with the OpenDyslexic typeface https://gist.github.com/rudolph9/e4e86fee61cccd722f6b56eb84126810 https://gist.github.com/rudolph9/e4e86fee61cccd722f6b56eb841...
- rudolph9 6y agoActually now that I look at it again it's mostly the icons that aren't rendering nicely. I've got OpenDyslexic installed in the OS and then set as the font in firefox setting but for what ever reason "up arrow", "down arrow", etc are rendering at text instead of icons. Any tips to fix this?
- manjalyc 6y agoHi, sorry I missed this - I seemed to misunderstand the question. There's a simple fix that I guess I might now make an extension either today or tomorrow depending when I have free time. Here's how you could do it on your own, this is for the google cloud docs reference https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/apis https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/apis. Note you have to allow pages to set their own fonts in firefox if you use this option 0. Open up your console in dev-tools (F12). 1. Load Jquery (Give it a second, let the script load) var jq = document.createElement('script'); jq.src = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(jq); 2. See all the font-families the page is using fontSets = new Set(); $('*').each( function() { fontSets.add( $(this).css("font-family")) }); console.log(fontSets) for google cloud docs this reveals: Set(7) [ "Roboto, Noto Sans, Noto Sans JP, Noto Sans KR, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Sans Bengali, sans-serif", "\"Material Icons\"", "Google Sans, Noto Sans, Noto Sans JP, Noto Sans KR, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Sans Bengali, sans-serif", "Roboto, RobotoDraft, Arial, sans-serif", "Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif", "Google Sans, Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif", "Material Icons"] 3. Make an educated guess, I guess its probably Material Icons that OpenDyslexic is messing up, so lets update all the font-families that don't contain Material Icons $('*').each( function() { if ( $(this).css("font-family").indexOf("Material Icons") === -1) $(this).css("font-family",`OpenDyslexic, ${$(this).css("font-family")}`); });
- jm_l 6y agoI used a similar method to write a dynamic poem using javascript several months ago (https://jminjie.com/@Jordan/from-the-eyes-of-birds-bd5bbe0c91 https://jminjie.com/@Jordan/from-the-eyes-of-birds-bd5bbe0c9...)
- withinrafael 6y agoCompounding the frustration with trying to read this page is the sans-serif font, making Is look like Ls, etc. This certainly makes a clear use case for serifs in my head.
- gnicholas 6y agoFunny, I hear so many people assert that serifs are worse for readability, and that this has been 'proven'. It seems unlikely that such a thing could be proven across the entire population, if a decent chunk of those people (including you and me) state a preference for serifs.
- thrownaway954 6y agoi am dyslexic, this is an over exaggeration. most of the time i experience words shifting. the only time i experience single characters shifting is reading numbers. this is why i've tried to train my self to reading numbers in pairs. for instance... i read phone number not as 5-5-5-1-2-1-2, but 55-51-21-2.
- SilasX 6y agoAt first I thought it was saying dyslexia makes text too small to read on mobile, and then I realized it’s just the typical styling of a site that does adaptive design poorly.
- ghego1 6y agoPro tip: visit the website without JavaScript and cure your dyslexia!
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