Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)

Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by craftinator on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:51AM (#23820724)

Not dyslexic, but I understand the symptoms fairly well after doing a couple research papers on it. In order to do a good simulation, I think there would need to be an eye movement sensor involved, so that when the eyes bounced back to a word to re-read it, corrected text could be swapped in. Do you think that would make a better sim?

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Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by shoes_for_thee on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:46AM (#23821312)

See, for example... when I first read this comment, I read:

"Eye movement disorder involved," then I got to the bottom of the text, and re-read it correctly. This happens to me fairly often. Am I dyslexic?

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Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by linuxftw on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:02PM (#23823639)

This happens to me from time to time as well, not in this particular case. I think it's related to the fact that my mind has created a certain context, and I don't read with full attention. I will regularly skip over words unintentionally and "fill in the blanks".

Sometimes I think this is an artifact of occasionally looking at groups of words as a single term. If I read each word deliberately, I don't encounter this problem.

From my understanding of dyslexia, this is not it.

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Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by chrononaut on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:44AM (#23831846)

Actually yeah, that sounds a lot better. You're right, if there's no eye movement tracking, people who are not dyslexic would immediately stumble on the text.

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