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Boom! https://danielbritton.info/dyslexia/
Neat demo, but:
No thanks
Yeah, I noticed that; the author should really have changed that by now. 😠
Still thanks for sharing as it’s cool visualisation, especially if you already have dyslexia: completely unreadable!
LMAO. I read the whole first few paragraphs thinking "this doesn't feel different" only to realize it's not in the font.
Hmm, clicking that link triggered my anti-virus software. Do you have any other source?
Just a guess, but if you're using something like uBlock, you have something in place that blocks newer top level domains (
.infoin this case). That doesn't mean the site is a problem, just that its TLD has a higher percentage of untrustworthy sites.Here's the first article that popped up about the font: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-font-aims-to-help-people-understand-what-it-s-like-to-have-dyslexia
That ~~wasnt~~ bad ~~at~~ all
This may be stupid of me to ask but did you scroll down? I thought the same thing, at first, before realizing the initial text was not, in fact, the text that was supposed to be worse.
Haha, my god. No i did not