diss-lexia

FOSSHACK Project

What are features that help

1. Word Tracker: Automatically show pointer below next word to read (manual prev and next over-ride)
2. Horizontal line: To show the current line bein
3. Font changes:
   • Specific font: OpenDyslexic Font, Lexend
   • Letter spacing: 0.35x length avg letter width
   • 3.5x inter letter spacing
   • Line spacing: 150%
   • Avoid underlining and italics
   • Avoid capital letters
4. Replace words with simplers/shorter words
5. Replace words with onHover images/visual cues
6. Marked mirror characters (marker on characters to know their orientation)
7. Increase/Decrease Font Size
8. Dyslexia Friendliness Scorer

What are the issues faced by them

1. Phoentic & Letter Jumping: Phonemes, letters etc get swapped
2. Movement due to jumping:
3. Vertical Jumping: Words jumps vertically
4. Part of character Observability: See here
5. Letters getting rotated: Can be fixed by having bottom heavy font. See here
6. Horizontal Jumping: Words jumps horizontally (very rarely)

Prior Work

1. Spreeder
2. Reviews of other tools:
3. Chromevox/ScreenReader
4. OpenDyslexic: Only changes the font
5. HelperBird:

Research

1. https://www.omoguru.com/omoblog/lexie/improve-skills-friendly-dyslexia-reading-tools/
2. https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/advice/employers/creating-a-dyslexia-friendly-workplace/dyslexia-friendly-style-guide#:~:text=Avoid%20background%20patterns%20or%20pictures,vision%20deficiencies%20(colour%20blindness)
3. https://www.omoguru.com/lexie/
4. https://thereadabilityconsortium.org/research/
5. https://www.readingrockets.org/article/dyslexia-and-brain-what-does-current-research-tell-us
6. http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea
7. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/06/health/dyslexia-benefit-curnow/index.html