Tech Tools for Dyslexia at work, in education and at home: great tips and list of tools to help you (or someone you know) with dyslexia, a review of dyslexia simulators (be careful those might be misleading) and a great panel to help you understand the different issues people with dyslexia might encounter on the web and in their workplace
Any dyslexics out there willing to share? I am reviewing my font selection process. I understand that studies so far show that fonts specifically for dyslexics work no better than fonts like Arial and Times New Roman. At the same time, I am looking at contemporary webfonts. What fonts work best for you? #Dyslexia#Dyslexic#Accessibility#a11y
Hey neurodivergent friends - we've got a lot of good places to discuss across fedi and I've been thinking that we don't always have a place the share with each other across groups for specific conditions. Maybe there is and I just haven't found it yet 😅
At any rate, I made a group for us: @neurodivergents
I like that they have basic moderation, which can help conversations. I'm not trying to impose my own will on anyone, and I envision it as a self-governing community group
had to take an actual photo of my laptop's screen because i can't get a screenshot of it with the Mastodon deck search field tab exposed.
am kinda frustrated with the #accessibility issues i've had with the platform. no matter what i tried, i could not properly perform a search... because i couldn't register correctly what i was seeing in that exposed tab.
where it not for the #Stylebot#Firefox extension, i would have ditched Mastodon a long time ago.
Join #A11yTalks Wednesday, Sept 20th, 12PM (ET)
“The Human Side of Neurodivergence - A Technologist's Journey” with Matthew Saunders
Matthew knew from a young age that he was different. Though he didn't know why. It wasn't until he was an adult and really dug into his own daughter's special needs, that he was able to begin a journey of self discovery. We'll talk about his lived experience with #Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, and #Dyslexia.
Together with Florian Naudet and Mark Seidenberg, I've coauthored a commentary on a 2017 paper by Le Floch and Ropars that argues for atypical visual asymmetry as a basis for dyslexia. The journal's guidelines don't allow us to include ethical issues in the comment, so we've just posted them on PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/publications/A49D0064BDA0529CC994B19DE8A432#4
Will post again when comment is published #dyslexia#vision#ethics#consent
@BlackAzizAnansi I’m dyslexic so it’s hard for me to write down the name of someone I like even if I see it right in front of me. Absolute top has to be @thepoliticalcat top for politics @GottaLaff Ive tried six times to type several different names and I’m just giving up lol the people I follow I vet really closely - anyone on my list could be my third rec but apparently I can’t spell any of them😜#dyslexia
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@SignorMacchina I think OpenDyslexia's objective usefulness was debunked by studies a while ago. But: if people like it, one can still include it, of course.
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My daughter is 12 and has worked for years to get to a 1st grade reading level. Severe, 1st percentile dyslexia. Deficits in all subtypes, so she struggles recognizing letters and struggles to break down sounds.
She has worked so hard to get where she is. She tries, but reading to her is like waking after a spinal injury.
What I didn't expect was how awful the ed therapy process is. Every tutor has basically restarted with the alphabet, using slightly different techniques that take her ages to master because of her severity. Like training a new set of muscles to walk with.
Moving out of state, retirements, her dyslexia school closing means she is on her 6th tutor in 5 years.
Am just so exhausted and burned out. Yet she keeps trying, she wants it so badly.
New school this fall with yet another unique approach to dyslexia. That doesn't have a summer program to get her started with.
I have three big updates planned for @mastowatch in the short term and one of them is focused on #accessibility. I want to go back and make sure that things are properly labeled and properly grouped for folks using assistive technology. In that same vein, I am looking at adding support for more accessible fonts as an option. What do folks think of fonts like this, geared toward people with #dyslexia? https://opendyslexic.org/
I, for example, need TTS apps to read text and interpret image both due to neurodivergency and Neuro-visual issues that often make it imposible for me to read, understand images or differentiate/properly see colours. My optic nerve is thinner than it should, making me often see as if things in front of me were out of focus, and it's getting worse, but I still haven't reach the point of needing screen readers to navigate.
And remember: that blindness is an spectrum. Not every Blind people has cero vision. In fact, most have some level of residual vision that allow them to see colours, or shadows, to give some examples.
If you find a user here that requires alt text for text screenshots, but not for images without text (or viceversa) don't put in doubt their need for it.
Needless to say, don't make fun a light mode users (sadly I've seen this happen in the #Fediverse). Many blind people with low light perception and some people with VPDs need light theme to be able to navigate a site/read.
I made a link in my incorrectly named magazine to redirect users to this magazine. (kbin.social)
Have fun getting new subscribers! Let me know if you want an extra mod to help out 👍