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Favourite fact of the moment : illiterate humans built the walls of jericho as it was built 2,000 years before writing was invented. Text is a jet fuel for hum
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
Favourite fact of the moment : illiterate humans built the walls of jericho as it was built 2,000 years before writing was invented.
Text is a jet fuel for humanity, not a requirement for success. I am only saddened that "we" have let down those 800M by not giving them a basic education
- drcross 5y agoI know someone with very bad dyslexia and it's not that he didn't get a basic education, it's that he can't understand written text or menu items more than one layer deep. He calls if wants to communicate which is very endearing but I also have major misgivings with modern UI paradigms. The "three dashed lines" that you see everywhere are infuriating.
- zdragnar 5y agoDo visual icons like the three lines for a menu help or hurt the usability of an application for people with dyslexia? I had assumed iconography was a boon for illiterate people- thinking primarily of symbols on shop signs or a striped barbers pole, for example.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago> Do visual icons like the three lines They hurt usability even for people perfectly capable of reading. Especially when Material fanboy fill everything with whitespace and bans black for the text.