> Gathering experimental evidence by having many different people from many different demographics read... Why don't I get it peer reviewed why I'm at it. The

> Gathering experimental evidence by having many different people from many different demographics read... Why don't I get it peer reviewed why I'm at it. Then I can post in on hacker news in 2014. >> How would Arabic look if you hadn't encountered it before? > Probably weird. Distinguishable as a writing script, though. Your point? That you probably would have found many flaws in it to point out, many of them probably valid, in relation to what you are familiar with. You likely wouldn't have given it the time or consideration required to discover the positive points it may have that are discernible when using it in practice, which could outweigh some of the negative points people enjoy focusing on at first contact. > It's also completely lacking in things like contrast, visual cues On what are you basing that? Go to dotsies.org and look at the bottom-left of the page, where you can compare the doties paragraph to the text above it. Gradually move your chair back from your screen until you can distinguish nothing. You'll likely see the distinguishing visual cues in the normal text go away before those in the dotsies text, despite it taking up less than half the space. > your argument simply aren't very convincing. Sorry. No apology necessary. Though, arguments on both our sides are mostly superfluous, and arguments from those who haven't tried it are partly speculative. The key question is whether it is useful, and that can only be determined by trying it out.