[games_access] Fw: Does This Font Truly Help Dyslexic Readers to Read? (Barrie Ellis)

Mon Oct 8 15:36:11 EDT 2012

Let us know, Michelle. It will be interesting to know. Bit more on the font here: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19734341 

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From: "Michelle Hinn" <michellehinn at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 1:38 AM
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Subject: Re: [games_access] Fw: Does This Font Truly Help Dyslexic Readers to Read? (Barrie Ellis)

> This is interesting! I'm not sure the OpenDyslexic font would help me
> or not but I'll have to experiment around with it. It seemed hard to
> look at for me but then again I'm so used to other fonts. I'm dyslexic
> (whole word mix up, spelling errors, word addition or subtraction are
> the things that get me to describe things very broadly) but I didn't
> get diagnosed until after high school. And now I have a doctorate. ;)
> 
> One thing that has helped me much more recently is eReaders -- I can
> adjust the font size, kerning, etc. I've always been a super avid
> reader despite everything but I think that was the luck of my brain
> adapting itself.
> 
> Anyway, I want to try this out on an eReader or eReading software! :)
> 
> As for the comment...this was my official non-favorite ("Dyslexia if
> just a cop out used by stupid people.") -- I enjoyed the word
> substitution in that sentence. ;)
> 
> Thanks for the info everyone!
> 
> Michelle
> 
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> A bit more on OpenDyslexic, it has been taken up by InstaPaper now, and a
>> school in the UK for dyslexic kids is giving it a trial run:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19734341
>>
>> FS Me is a much nicer option, properly researched and tested, and designed
>> from the ground up too, compared to OD which tweaked  a base font chosen due
>> to the licence terminology rather than readability, a base font that
>> had/still has issues with fundamentals like mirroring.
>>
>> It's a real shame that FS Me has such an obscene pricetag, or we could have
>> seen things like the InstaPaper integration happen years ago. Mencap wanted
>> it to become a standard commonly used font, but that's simply never going to
>> happen at £190 a go. The presentation here is worth looking through if you
>> have an interest in accessible type, explains some of the principles behind
>> FS Me (the same principles used in other similar fonts too):
>>
>> http://issuu.com/fontsmith/docs/fs_me
>>
>> Can only hope that the two things can learn from each other - OpenDyslexic
>> going beyond weight to get some more of the fine details right (I've
>> forwarded that FS Me doc on to OpenDyslexic's designer, so never know), and
>> FS Me being released for free.
>>
>> Ian
>>
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>>> This link is very interesting, and especially so the comments.....
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>>> Subject: Does This Font Truly Help Dyslexic Readers to Read?
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>>> http://m.gizmodo.com/5948800/does-this-font-truly-help-dyslexic-readers-read
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>>> This is fricken amazing if it works. Devs need to let ppl swap fonts with
>>> this. Or build it into systems firmware so everygame supports it. Sony
>>> ignores anything i say but maybe if you guys lobby for it.
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>>> A bit more on the accessibility of fonts in games:
>>> http://switchgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-accessibility-of-fonts-in-games.html
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