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Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by matthewcford » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:37 PM UTC

Having dyslexia, I would say this is rather extreme, I can't speak for everyone but reading isn't like this for most dyslexics.

Usually it is a pair of letters being swapped, or numbers order reversed. They don't jump around/change randomly, you just misread it.

http://dyslexia.learninginfo.org/symptoms.htm

The new font for dyslexics also goes into this some more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-font-helps-dys...

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by stegosaurus » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:37 PM UTC

stegosaurus wrote: post #2

I'm guessing this is supposed to do something? Expecting the letters to jumble themselves or similar. Doesn't work for me on either Firefox or Chrome desktop.

OK, it's decided to work now.

Very odd. I had first opened it with NoScript; disabled the blocking; nothing. Tried in Chrome (vanilla install); nothing.

Tried a bit later in Chrome: now working.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by Alex3917 » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:38 PM UTC

I actually don't have much difficulty reading this, with the exception of a couple technical terms I wasn't familiar with. There was a similar thread a while back with a couple different fun examples, albeit designed to show how we read based on the shape of words (not spelling) rather than to demonstrate dyslexia:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=222459

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by ola » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:39 PM UTC

geon wrote: post #9

stegosaurus wrote: post #2

I'm guessing this is supposed to do something? Expecting the letters to jumble themselves or similar. Doesn't work for me on either Firefox or Chrome desktop.

Any error messages in your console?

You are loading things over HTTP instead of HTTPS (Mixed content warning). Change

http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.mi... => //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by stordoff » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:40 PM UTC

geon wrote: post #9

stegosaurus wrote: post #2

I'm guessing this is supposed to do something? Expecting the letters to jumble themselves or similar. Doesn't work for me on either Firefox or Chrome desktop.

Any error messages in your console?

It could be a HTTPS error - jquery is loaded over HTTP, so blocked on the secure page.

Replacing

with

should enable HTTPS as required AFAIK

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by LyndsySimon » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:40 PM UTC

imadeajoke wrote: post #8

stegosaurus wrote: post #2

I'm guessing this is supposed to do something? Expecting the letters to jumble themselves or similar. Doesn't work for me on either Firefox or Chrome desktop.

Do you have dyslexia? Maybe it's just balancing itself out?

Username checks out.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by geon » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:41 PM UTC

stegosaurus wrote: post #12

stegosaurus wrote: post #2

I'm guessing this is supposed to do something? Expecting the letters to jumble themselves or similar. Doesn't work for me on either Firefox or Chrome desktop.

OK, it's decided to work now. Very odd. I had first opened it with NoScript; disabled the blocking; nothing. Tried in Chrome (vanilla install); nothing. Tried a bit later in Chrome: now working.

I used a jQuery from Cloudflare. It might have decided to not load the first time.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by chimeracoder » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:43 PM UTC

stegosaurus wrote: post #2

I'm guessing this is supposed to do something? Expecting the letters to jumble themselves or similar. Doesn't work for me on either Firefox or Chrome desktop.

It didn't load for me in Firefox. When it didn't load in Chrome either, I noticed that the script was being loaded from an unsafe source, which both Firefox 46 and Chrome seem to block by default.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by antilketan » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:43 PM UTC

I think it would be possible to train a model (and present it as an app for people with Dyslexia) that cancels out the jumping letters. It is kind of like superimposing two waves which has a coherent text, that most of us see, as the product.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Post by slg » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 6:44 PM UTC

There are a variety of different forms of Dyslexia, so I can't speak for everyone. However, this doesn't resemble my own personal form. I would be curious to hear from other Dyslexics to see if this is anything close to their experience.

The way I usually explain my variety is that my brain is trying to read faster than it can physically. I have no problem reading words (which seems to be what this code is focusing on), the problem is my brain is already moving forward and the word I read is often not the word written on the page. Sometime I can make the contextual correction in my head while other times I have to reread the sentence to make any sense of it. In that instance, I can understand the "jumping around" description as I can read a sentence for a second time and suddenly my brain will see a different word than it saw the first time.