I
fund many article talking about this free add-ons for your browser
that help dyslexic people to read: Dyslexie. So I decided to try
Dyslexie for one month.
Dyslexie
is a font created especially for people that have reading
difficulty, like Dyslexia. The founder of this font is Christian
Boer (1981), a graphic designer graduate from the Utrecht Art
Academy of Netherlands. He come with this idea to created a font for
Dyslexic as a final thesis project for his diploma. Christian a
dyslexic himself, set the challenge to himself to create a font that
would make reading an easy task to Dyslexic people around the world.
After finished his project he decided to allows people around to
access to it.
Christian
mentions and applies these points to his font:
- long ascenders and descenders,
- distinction between confusable letters, e.g. b and d, though a miniature capital Q for the lower case letter is surprising.
- Capital I, lowercase l and digit 1 are distinguished.
- rounded, g but not a.
- good letter-spacing;
After
trying this free Dyslexie for 1 month, I fund in it advantages and
disadvantaged, but the advantages take more place than the
disadvantages.
First the advantages I fund are:
- Make articles and text more clearly readable, event a study from The University of Twente showed that people with Dyslexia made fewer reading errors when they use Dyslexie font compared to using standard font.
- You can read more long article without giving up, because your don't find difficulty to read it.
- The color of the letters blue is more relaxing for the eyes, and if you like to read for a long time on your computer it doesn't hurt your eyes.
- The add-on is user friendly interface (easy to use, simply 4 bottoms on the right side of your browser ).
Let
now show the disadvantages, I see by using this font for 1 months:
- This add-on have the tendency to slow a little bit your Internet, because it's take more time to load a websites.
- Some web-sites don't use it.
- And finally on a black background this is difficult to see the blue letters because the add-on don't allows us to change the color of the text.
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