Reminds me of a thing I made. Requires a mouse. http://afandian.com/moreover/alide-in-wonnerlanc/
Dsxyliea
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#72There 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 o…
> the problem is my brain is already moving forward and > the word I read is often not the word written on the page. Either I have dyslexia, or that's how everyone's brain works. Sometimes when I'm reading out loud, I'll completely make up words that are not on the page.
I imagine like most of these things it is a spectrum. Most people probably just ignored unless it happens enough to start causing problems.
EDIT: There is an example right there. "Ignored" instead of "ignore it", smashing two words together that are somewhat phonetically close.
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#73Ugh, as someone with dyslexia, it's nothing visual, so trying to visualize being dyslexic is an exercise in futility. 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…
Very curious about it. I recently suffered health issues and I now have 'synchronisation' problems when reading and writing at the same time. I feel protodyslexic. That webpage made my brain happy, probably because being able to read scrambled text made me confident in my brain again.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it works best with words you recognize, I'm reading this article and I can't figure out the words I don't recognize, it also is a bit slower to read when all the letters are jumping around every other second. If that sentence had any words I had never seen or heard of before I probably couldn't tell you what the word is supposed to be.
> I think it works best with words you recognize, I'm reading this article and I can't figure out the words I don't recognize "typoglycemia", for instance?
Indeed, was wondering what that word was, there was a few others, which kind of deterred me continuing reading the article sadly.
Re: Dsxyliea
#75Having 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…
That was crazy, I was able to read the article in the dyslexic font way faster than before. I wish I could change all fonts to be this.
> I wish I could change all fonts to be this.
This is one thing I miss of "Web 1.0": the default to providing information and respecting the client's preference for presentation.
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#76Maybe this is important, not because it an accurate representation of dyslexia, but because it can simulate the effect of it. I could read everything pretty quickly and accurately except for some of the longest words, but I got this feeling of my brain's CPU overheating. At the end of the article I was frustrated and tired. I wanted to stop reading. This is coming from someone who probably reads tens of thousands (or more) of words per day of articles, emails, comments, and source code.
Re: Dsxyliea
#77According to Alice Wellborn, a dyslexia expert of some note:
Many years ago, researchers believed that dyslexia was a visual perceptual problem - that it was based in how a person saw letters and words. Now we know for sure, through brain imaging studies, that dyslexia is a problem in the language system of the brain, not the visual system.
Dyslexia is the result of a significant weakness in the phonological processing system, or how a person's brain understands and can use the sound-based reading "code". A dyslexic reader has difficulty cracking that code.
Here are some important facts about dyslexia:
Dyslexia is based in how a person's brain functions. The brain structure is normal - the glitch is in the wiring. Fluent readers use a part of the brain for reading that dyslexic readers do not use. This means that reading remains a slow, laborious process for children and adults with dyslexia.
Dyslexia is not related to a person's level of intelligence. Many children and adults with dyslexia are gifted, highly accomplished, creative people.
Re: Dsxyliea
#78Having 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…
That was crazy, I was able to read the article in the dyslexic font way faster than before. I wish I could change all fonts to be this.
There's some browser addons, for ex https://addons.mozilla.org/de/android/addon/mobile-dyslexic/...
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#79I 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.
You're making a lot of absurd assumptions here. You're assuming that this demo is a completely literal representation of what dyslexics experience, which is unlikely, and you're assuming that there is some predictable pattern to the shuffling, which there isn't (check the source, it's just randomly choosing words and then randomly shuffling their internal letters).
It is a thought and has nothing to do with how this particular entity has been implemented. What I got from the post was that dyslexic people see words/letters differently than us. And maybe there is a way to balance that out with deterministic enforced shuffling (edit: don't take shuffling literally). That is why used the word "train". I don't think anyone except a person with dyslexia knows what the "patterns" are, if any. The patterns could be different for every person too.
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#80I wonder if people with dyslexia can read things rendered with the dyslexia app like normal people can read normal text. That would be a trip!