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Renegade:
This seems pretty nifty - Open Dyslexic fonts - fonts to help people with dyslexia.

http://dyslexicfonts.com/



And at Github:

https://github.com/antijingoist/open-dyslexic

It sounds like a interesting approach.

joiwind:
Yes, very good idea, very neat and no doubt very helpful.

(Note that I didn't fall into the rtap of making a koje.)

Renegade:
Yes, very good idea, very neat and no doubt very helpful.

(Note that I didn't fall into the rtap of making a koje.)
-joiwind (October 08, 2012, 08:44 AM)
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I'm not sure how a Rural Transit Assistance Program can be use to create a small island off the south coast of South Korea that is mostly renowned for shipbuilding, bars, and hot women that are ready to take your money... :P

Sgih... cna't seem to mkae a fnnuy tehre. :(

A friend of mine is dyslexic, and when he finished university, you can imagine he had a party for it. :) I think he went on to become a successful drug dealer... kind of lost contact with him a few years ago...

Another friend is doing extremely well with his dyslexia. He suffered from it extremely badly. Today, he's posting on Facebook regularly, which is leagues advanced from how he used to deal with things, i.e. not read period.

It's pretty common, but very often people feel ashamed, and hide it.

vrgrrl:
I've been doing work in accessibility (mostly videogames) for over a decade and very little has had potential impact on games and more. I'm dyslexic -- but I wasn't diagnosed until college. My brain had come up with tricks for me to get around it. It's such an individual thing -- some people will never learn to read and others (like me) will read like mad. I'm admittedly not a hyper quick reader but I enjoy it greatly.

Anyway, there are some other fonts that have been going around to help with dyslexia (I personally don't don't find OpenDyslexia helpful -- it's too much like reading Comic Sans for me. :) But I'm glad to see more work being done in this area! I imagine it will take a long while before this hits things like Kindles, etc, which I exclusively read books on because I can change the font size, the line spacing, etc.

Check out some of these other examples:

http://www.identifont.com/samples/fontsmith/Me.gif
http://www.identifont.com/samples/clubtype/SassoonPrimary.gif
http://luc.devroye.org/ChristiaanTheoBoer-Dyslexie-2008.png
http://www.robsfonts.com/examples/Resources/fig5.jpeg
http://www.bl.uk/learning/images/whywrite/RR-alphabet.jpg
http://www.biancoeneroedizioni.com/shop/public/biancoenero-sito-5.jpg

app103:
I've been wondering if there are any web fonts that would be better for dyslexics than the standard Arial/Verdana/Georgia that most web designers work with. I'd be more than willing to start using them on all my sites and blogs, if I knew what to use.

My brain had come up with tricks for me to get around it. It's such an individual thing
-vrgrrl (October 08, 2012, 01:36 PM)
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Being dyscalculic, I know exactly what you are talking about. My bag of tricks made teachers think I was gifted. As long as they never saw my scratch paper (and they never did), they never knew I was doing things like solving long division with addition...and counting domino dot patterns in my head.

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