Even just yesterday, a screenshot of the one I use the most (nztt) got a comment wondering what the deal was with it. Some people give nztt (and my other fonts) superlative praise, others baulk.
The difficulty lies in identifying the discrete units of sound that make up words and “matching those individual sounds to the letters and combinations of letters in order to read and spell.”
No. That does not sound like me at all. The rotational and flipping stuff sounds much more like what I experience. And other aspects not noted, like struggling to stick to the lines and not just try to visually grok the whole thing like an image with my eyes going all over the page following the flow of whitespace or whatever. Not phonetic at all afaict ime.
Coloured overlays help, but are fiddly. I’ve found if I simply shallow-angle a page correctly with respect to sunlight, I can get as beneficial an effect for easing my reading compared to the purple overlay. Sometime even better. And again, font (and even paper texture noise (and paper colour)) matter too.
As I read through the methods used in a couple of those experiments, it strikes me they were very limited in scope, size, and duration. I wonder how the results would turn out if students were given similar time to acclimate to OpenDyslexic or Dyslexie as they would have for Ariel or Times New Roman, and then switch them.
I presume it has to be a very individual thing. I find some fonts make it worse, even some supposedly dyslexia fonts make it worse.
I spent a while making my own.
Even just yesterday, a screenshot of the one I use the most (nztt) got a comment wondering what the deal was with it. Some people give nztt (and my other fonts) superlative praise, others baulk.
No. That does not sound like me at all. The rotational and flipping stuff sounds much more like what I experience. And other aspects not noted, like struggling to stick to the lines and not just try to visually grok the whole thing like an image with my eyes going all over the page following the flow of whitespace or whatever. Not phonetic at all afaict ime.
Coloured overlays help, but are fiddly. I’ve found if I simply shallow-angle a page correctly with respect to sunlight, I can get as beneficial an effect for easing my reading compared to the purple overlay. Sometime even better. And again, font (and even paper texture noise (and paper colour)) matter too.
As I read through the methods used in a couple of those experiments, it strikes me they were very limited in scope, size, and duration. I wonder how the results would turn out if students were given similar time to acclimate to OpenDyslexic or Dyslexie as they would have for Ariel or Times New Roman, and then switch them.