I was tested for Dyslexia as a child and the test came back negative but I have some issues which still plague me till today. I really dislike justified text.
If what you say is correct then these concerns could be suggested to the above organizations and that data/info should be included.
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How’s it going, I'm a Adam, a Full-Stack Engineer, actively searching for work. I'm all about JavaScript. And Frontend but don't let that fool you - I've also got some serious Backend skills.
Location
City of Bath, UK 🇬🇧
Education
11 plus years* active enterprise development experience and a Fine art degree 🎨
I'll add that there are fonts which are designed to be readable for those who have dyslexia! dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/
If you go into the settings of your DEV.to account there is even an option to use a dyslexia-helping font! I think it's awesome that DEV thought about that. Even if you don't have dyslexia, it's worth changing your font in the settings for a bit, just to get a sense of what it's like so you can empathize with dyslexic users :)
Thank you for pointing this out. It's always nice to hear others talk about Dyslexia here. I've resorted to using the browser's native text-to-speech/SpeechSynthesis API for most things. Though it is a wretched API. Have you come across any TTS solutions?
I should probably add that justified text also causes a number of problems for dyslexic people. It's best to simply left-align text.
I was tested for Dyslexia as a child and the test came back negative but I have some issues which still plague me till today. I really dislike justified text.
If what you say is correct then these concerns could be suggested to the above organizations and that data/info should be included.
Good to know! Thanks for the tip.
You're welcome!
Every programmer I tell about my being dyslexic, seems to not be surprised but instead they are also dyslexic! It's quite funny.
Yeah, it's way more common than I thought, plus it gives you superpowers.
How many of the global population are programmers? Would be an interesting stat overlay to have a potential number of dyslexic programmers.
I'll add that there are fonts which are designed to be readable for those who have dyslexia! dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/
If you go into the settings of your DEV.to account there is even an option to use a dyslexia-helping font! I think it's awesome that DEV thought about that. Even if you don't have dyslexia, it's worth changing your font in the settings for a bit, just to get a sense of what it's like so you can empathize with dyslexic users :)
Thanks Elliot, I didn't know about this !
Thank you for pointing this out. It's always nice to hear others talk about Dyslexia here. I've resorted to using the browser's native text-to-speech/SpeechSynthesis API for most things. Though it is a wretched API. Have you come across any TTS solutions?
Nothing better that I'm aware of I'm afraid. There are some out-of-browser solutions, such as Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, Amazon Polly or Microsoft Azure (Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech). They take more setup although AWS Amplify makes using Amazon Polly less time consuming through its Text-to-Speech library.
Love this!
Thanks @cassiopeiasky