Re: Dyslexia

I find this idea of a "dyslexia font" quite intriguing...now if only one 
could make a font that helps people like myself who have the flavor of 
dyslexia known as "surface dyslexia".

Folks with this flavor of dyslexia tend to read words from left to right 
rather than as a unit. For example, here is a list of words, which, when 
read as quickly as possible, are frequently mispronounced by people with 
what I've got, even though we know perfectly well how to say these words:

pint
do
yacht
have
flower
angel
sew
gesture
infrared

English is a terrible language for folks like us... German is far 
friendlier. :)

Bob



On 12/9/2013 9:07 AM, geni wrote:
> On 9 December 2013 09:40, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>>
>> Between 7 and 10% of a population is dyslexic. For them reading takes much
>> more effort than it does for the rest of us.
>
> If you withdraw that statement now your apology might be accepted.
>
>
>
>> As it is, the English
>> Wikipedia has a font available for people who are dyslexic. It is the
>> OpenDyslexic font.
>>
>> It is possible to configure en.wp and many other Wikipedias by clicking
>> somewhere... There are a few questions I would like to ask:
>>
>>     - did you know this many people have a problem reading Wikipedia
>>     - did you know these people can be helped with a different font
>>
> There really isn't much data to support that.
>


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