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Go to https://piefed.social/user/settings and choose 'OpenDyslexia' in the Font setting, halfway down the form.

This font looks odd to me but I'm told that it really helps some people. If you're one of those people, please let me know if you have any preferences around letter spacing or line height, etc.

Edit: PieFed also has Atkinson Hyperledgible

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[–] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] underscore_@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Neat demo, but:

if we can increase our understanding and give the correct help to these people just think how many more Richard Bransons, Elon Musks or Boyan Slats we can produce

No thanks

[–] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I noticed that; the author should really have changed that by now. 😠

[–] underscore_@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Still thanks for sharing as it’s cool visualisation, especially if you already have dyslexia: completely unreadable!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

LMAO. I read the whole first few paragraphs thinking "this doesn't feel different" only to realize it's not in the font.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, clicking that link triggered my anti-virus software. Do you have any other source?

[–] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Just a guess, but if you're using something like uBlock, you have something in place that blocks newer top level domains (.info in 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

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That ~~wasnt~~ bad ~~at~~ all

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

Haha, my god. No i did not