Emerging Technology Enabling Dyslexia Users To Read and Perceive Written Text Correctly

Abstract

Dyslexia is treated by many specialists as a cognitive impairment involving visual attention deficit. It may cause an image of letter rotation or overlapping. Both children and adults suffer from this disease, differing in individual needs and seriousness. With a growing amount of information being distributed digitally, there is a need to accommodate online text to dyslexic users. However, with different types of operating systems, web browsers and substantial dyslexia individualism, it is not easy to fully automatize such needs. We are developing an extension for Chrome browser which is based on our previous cognitive research and empirical data. Such an extension will allow users with dyslexia to accommodate web content with special fragmentation sign which demonstrably suppresses reading problems caused (not only) by dyslexia.

Who was that? Enriched eReading through in-book visualisation

“…The participant believed these text enhancements helped him to identify the position in the text that he was reading. Significant investigation across many disciplines (see for example Parilová et al 2016;Jing et al 2017) is being undertaken to survey the potential for assisting readers and learners with various difficulties. Our focus here is presently not to investigate learning difficulties as an early outcome of this research, however we welcome the possibility that informational enrichment might assist readers with learning difficulties.…”