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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.
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I do well today thanks to spelling correction and Audio Books. But it is a struggle. There are "English Nazis" everywhere. I hear thing like "You might get promoted if you would play attention to your spelling."
Most of my special Ed friends flip burgers even with 140+ IQs.
You know those "drunk" googles that distort your view? They certainly make it harder to walk, but they in no way make you feel drunk...
Try explaining someone what it feels like being on LSD... you can't.
Telling people that letters jump around is an easy way to dismiss people whit out having to do a lengthy and tiring explanation that likely wont be understood anyway.
I do appreciate the effort that went into this, and that people try to understand, but I don't think this particular experiment is helpful, because people will get the wrong idea about what dyslexia is.
Edit: Arzh is right in that I'm being a bit harsh/dramatic here, so I made some small changes.
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
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-he…
This can be a problem, b d p q 9, W M N, O 0 o e, E 5 S R B and more.
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
Anyhow, because the Internet is magic, an actual researcher from Cambridge has since posted a more thorough examination of the phenomenon, with counter-examples and proper citation:
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
In doing this, I think the creator was specifically trying to make a Typoglycemia simulator, not a dyslexia simulator, since the original quote said nothing about the first and last letters remaining the same.